BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, FEB. 8, 1901 MORPHINE FOR GRIP John Dougherty Dies From A Dose Probably Taken With Suicidal Intent. John Dougherty, a man 32 years of age, who had been working recently in Carter's restaurant, bought 25 cents worth of morphine Wednesday afternoon about 4 o'clock and going to his room at the Indiana House swallowed it. He was discovered between 6 and 7 o'clock that evening, in a dying condition, and though several doctors were summoned they were unable to save him. Dougherty was a very quiet, peaceable fellow, and was liked by his acquaintances and employers. He had been suffering severely with the grip for two weeks, and had packages of quinine in his pockets at the time of his death. Some think he took the morphine by mistake for quinine, but that is hardly probable. Last summer he traveled with T. W. Box's trotting horse "Big Sam," and became much attached to the animal. "Big Sam" has been very sick for some time, and Dougherty is said to have worried about the matter, remarking that "if the horse died he had noting to live for." One of the employees at Box's stable says: "About 3:30 Wednesday Dougherty was up at the stable of T. W. Box's to see the horse that he had been taking care of during the two last Fairs, which is very bad sick and not expected to live through the night. Dougherty took up with the horse and thought just as much of him as if he had been a brother. Dougherty cried for about thirty minutes, then came into the office and sat there awhile and was in a deep study. When he got up he went out in the barn and called Chas. Huff, one of Box's employees out and asked him if he had 50c. Huff told him that he did not. Then Dougherty said 'Have you got 25c?' Huff told him yes. Dougherty says 'take my watch and let me have the 25c.' He told Huff to keep the watch till he paid him back. Then Dougherty walked down the street and the next thing we heard was that he was very near dead at the Indiana House, and he did die at 6:30 this a.m. Five years ago Dougherty fell from the loft at Box's stable and broke his leg and it left him a cripple." It is likely the pain and depression resulting from the grip had slightly unsettled the man's mind. Dougherty has a sister near Paris, Ky., but has not seen her for 20 years. Dougherty will be buried at Beech Grove this afternoon at 2:30.