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Like A Ghost At The Feast — Camden Daily Courier, July 12, 1926
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Like a Ghost at the Feast

A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.

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Police Seek Writer of Note Found on Suicide — Camden Post-Telegram, July 12, 1906
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Police Seek Writer of Note Found on Suicide

William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.

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