The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-05-31

few miles out, and then take the whole
establishment, horses, buggy, and har-
ness, to Bowling Green or Louisville,
and sell it.
On the 18th of March last he was rec
ognized as q horse thief, in Louis
vile, Immediately arrested and in jail,
to await the necessary requisition from
Governor Cox Then it was that he
invented the lie as to the assassination
of President Lincoln, declaring that he
was the assassin, and that John Wilkes
Booth had nothing further to do with
it than to hold his Kings horse while
he entered the theater, fired the pistol
shot, made his escape and remounted
His object in telling this story, was to
induce the authorities to take him to
Washington, where he would be iber-
ated and so escape both charges.
THE SUICIDE.
Failing in this, and being reduced
to the extreme Of dependency and
modification at the position to which
he degraded himself, he resolved to
put an end to his wretched and appar-
ent uncomfortable existence At about
eleven o'clock one night, when all save
himself in the Jail were in bed, he cut
an artery of the left arm, and permit
ted the blood to gush out unim-
peded The loss of blood produced
sickness of the stomach and violent
vomiting, which awakened a fellow pris-
oner who was sleeping in thesame cell.
This man gave the alarm, and assistance
came in time to save the life that the
would-be suicide had sought to thus
cast off. h.
But the resolution to die was not to
be thus conquered. Sterling King was
man of inflexible will. He ceased en-
tirely to eat Of any thing that would
feed the fire of life, which soon began
to wane and then, day by day, grew
more and more feeble. In forty days
this man tasted but five times of food,
and all that he ate in that entire time
a hungry man. Rapidly his flesh be-
gan to disappear, and the bones of his
limbs that could be easily spanned with
the hand grew horribly prominent
He ceased to walk or stand; only re-
clined, breathed and refused to eat
They told him that the requisition from
! the Governor of Ohio would reach him
at certain time. He wanted to die
not in the jail Of Louisville, but out
somewhere where he could breathe the
pure air and see nature once more
| And so this living skeleton coolly cal
culated the length of-time he had yet
to live, and finding that, if he did not
eat, he would die too soon, he took
some soup, bread and preserves-five
times, as already mentioned.
Day before yesterday, Detective Lar.
ry Hazen, of this city, reached his pris
on, produced the requisition, took King
up as though he were child and con
veyed him to the carriage, and thence
to berth on the mail boat. He theI
endeavored to induce him to eat and
said King, in voice scarcely audible
''Mr. Hezen, if you will promise me to
make such an arrangement as will en-
able me to compromise this matter BY
paying for the property, I will com
mence eating to-day" Mr.. Hazer
could not promise this, and the dying
man shook his head and refused the
food He calculated he had three days
to live. which would enable him to
reach Cincinnati and settle up his little
affairs; but at about two o'clock of yes
terday morning, little after the boat
reached the landing here, the death rat
tie sounded in his throat, and the de
tectiye found him dead. .
The jury called by Coroner Carey
yesterday, rendered verdict of suicide
by starvation. We understand tha
the deceased has friends in Bowling
Green, Ky.-Cis. Com.