This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Taliot, Sieppy Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gh.2ADI/5465 Message Board Post: The Warren Weekly News, Thursday, February 27, 1902 Oil Man Suicides at Montpelier. An epidemic of suicides prevalent in Montpelier. The latest is the suicide of Thomas Taliot, a well-known oil man and gauger for the Standard Oil Company, who took carbolic acid. He and his brother and sister had been having trouble and his arrest was sought on an affidavit signed by his beother, charging him with assault on his sister. Marshal Sieppy went to the house to arrest him, and his wife paid the fine, saying he was not at home. At the time he was in his room dead, but his wife did not know it.