Coroner Weaver is glad November is gone and hopes he will never see its like again.  Except the Alma Steinway murder mystery, the homicides were neither unusually numerous nor especially startling; there was the usual run of accidental deaths and sudden calls from natural causes.  These are not the feature of the month that will make it linger distastefully as part of the coronial term so near completion.  What most makes the month a grewsome (sic) memory is the suicide schedule.  There were just an even dozen voluntarily sought violent deaths in Cincinnati during November.  Except three, all of these were of date late than the 15th and only one earlier than the 14th.  So that practically there was an average of five suicides to the week for the last two weeks of November.  In this number the most startling was, of course, that of Charles Allen Parker, vice president of the Pere Marquette and second vice president of the C., H & D. According to the coroner's finding the agency of Mr. Parker's death was as subtle and secretive as the circumstances surrounding it were misleading and mystifying.  He took hydrocyanic acid, or, if you prefer to so call it, Prussic acid.  Henry John Immenhort short himself through the temple, as did also Mrs. Minnie Menchow. Another suicide with, and following, sensational features was that of Mrs. Grace Morand Fennessy, wife of Col. James E. Fennessy.  She took carbolic acid, which preserved its reputation during the month as the most popular agency of self-destruction.  The three others who sought a like torturous method of dissolution were Anna Scheller, a working girl, wearied of life; M. F. Neville, a salesman, disheartened and discouraged, and George Keller, the tailor who had lost money in speculation,.  There were two hangings—that of Max Pickard, who killed himself in a cell at police headquarters, dreading to face exposure of his descent into methods of dishonesty in an effort to keep an income apace with his extravagant tastes; the other was an old man, outcast and dissipated, Christian Frederick Depner.  There was one case of Paris green poisoning, one of knife thrust and two by self-sought falls.  Coroner Weaver hopes that, with the advent of December, there may come atmospheric or other needed changes eliminating the microbe that produces the mania for self-destruction.

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