Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Grand Rapids Press Friday, 28 April 1911 HE DIES FOR LOVE ORIE DISBROW Drinks Two Ounces of Carbolic Acid FORGETS HIS FAMILY He Wooes the Divorced Wife of Another Clutching Empty Bottle and Calling for Woman, Man is Found in a Rooming House on Canal Street. Forgetting his wife and children and despondent because the woman whom he loved had refused to go west with him, ORIE DISBROW, thirty-four years of age, drank the contents of a two-ounce vial of carbolic acid last night at a rooming house, 68 Canal street. Death came within an hour at Butter- worth hospital. Coroner Hilliker decided it was a plain case of suicide and no inquest will be held. John Aldrich, a clerk at the Schmidt Drug com- pany's store, was in the block and happened to hear DISBROW'S moans as he passed the door of his room. Hurrying in he found DISBROW in great agony and clutching the empty bottle. "May, come and kiss me before I die," DISBROW repeated over and over. It was learned he referred to May Cox, a divorced woman who formerly was Mrs. Mary Hall. She was notified of the affair and went to the room and sat with DISBROW until he was taken away unconscious in the ambulance. DISBROW was born in Grand Rapids, but during the last few years had spent much of his time at the home of his parents at Jones, Cass county. For the last two weeks he had been here and Wednesday night he stayed with Roy Cook, a friend, in the rooming house where he took the drug. DISBROW was married, but for the last three years he had been separated from his wife. His wife and one child now reside at 80 West Bridge street, while two other children are with his parents in Cass county. The body was taken to Van Strien's morgue, where it will be held pending word from DISBROW'S parents. Transcriber's Note: His name was Orion LeRoy Disbrow. He was born May 9, 1879 at Spring Lake, MI., and was the son of George W. and Anna (Garrison) Disbrow. He was married 20 November 1898 to Bertha Idella Rinard. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Grand Rapids Press Saturday, 29, April 1911 Wife Furnishes Money MRS. BERTHA DISBROW to Give Suicide Burial Estranged for Three Years She Goes to Dead Man's Side in Interests of Children. Funeral services for ORION LE ROY DISBROW, who committed suicide by taking carbolic acid at a rooming house at 68 Canal street Thursday night, will be held at Van Strien's chapel Monday at 1 o'clock. In spite of the fact that she had been estranged from her husband for the last three years, MRS. BERTHA DISBROW advanced part of the money in order that the father of her three children, ESTHER, ANNA and RUBY, might have a decent burial. DISBROW died practically penniless. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE W. DISBROW of Jones, Cass county, and a MRS. LEONARD KAPP, sister, are here to attend the funeral. DISBROW was born in Grand Rapids thirty-two years ago. ===========================================================================