The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, November 7, 1907 It is said that Cashier CROCKER told MISS EMMA POWELL to come to work early on Thursday morning as there were things of importance on hand. This surprised her but she obeyed and at six o'clock on Thursday morning, she arrived at the bank and there found a note addressed to her. She went to the home of C.R. KIRK immediately and delivered the message; "Tell C.R. KIRK to call at my room at 6 o'clock this morning." She saw on the desk two piles of documents, one addressed to J.A. BROWN and another to THOMAS BRANDON, of Russell. The CROCKER home is only two doors south of the KIRK home and when MR. KIRK entered the room he knew it was the chamber of death. There lay MR. CROCKER dead with a smile on his face. He had taken morphine. Drs. T.P. Stanton, J.A. McKlveen and Guy Larimer were called. They could do nothing. He had been dead some time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert October 17, 2004 [email protected]