Extracted from The Times (Montgomery, AL)
Monday, March 10, 1924

Drinks Vial Carbolic Acid and Is Found Lying Across Open Bible

ATLANTA, Ga. March 10. -- (Special) -- Blaming cigarettes and whiskey, which he branded the “most damnable curse ever permitted to exist,” for ill health which made his life “not worth while.” B. L. Robinson, aged 35, of Birmingham, drank a phial of carbolic acid in a room at a hotel here today, and died.

He was found lying across an open Bible.
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Extracted from The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA)
Thursday, March 13, 1924

BODY OF SUICIDE WILL BE BURIED IN SHUBUTA, MISS.

The body of B. L. Robinson, 35, who ended his own life Monday morning by drinking carbolic acid, Wednesday afternoon was sent to Shubuta, Miss., for burial. It was accompanied by a brother, D. O. [sic B. O.] Robinson, of Savannah, who was present at the coroner's inquest Wednesday morning, the verdict being suicide. The inquest was held at the chapel of Harry G. Poole.