The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-06
snicide of Cd. SubIett.
From Tie MurlIee9boro Monitor, May ..

From ths MuriTee sbOro Monitor, May D.
Ga last Tuesday morning about 81
o clock, David D. Sublett, well known
TO many if not all OF our readers, COM
mitted suicide in this city by shooting
himself with pistol, the ball entering
below the heart and passing through
him. He lived until o'clock suffer
ing more than human mind can con-
ceive Of, though complaining but little.
What could have been the reasons for
his pursuing such a course, is unknown
only through superstition. He was
conscious and retained his ual man
ner of expression and conversation up
to the hour of his death. He gave no
cause for his strange act, only stating
that he had a reason, but what it was
he would not state. he YVES thought
to have been laboring under an aberrs-
ton of the mind few days before, bat
nothing serious was thought of it until
the night previous, when he attempted
to take his life. On the following
morning he was asked why he looked
so meditatiye and acte so strangely
and if there was anything the matter
with him, but replied with an evasiye
answer Previous to the committal of
the rash act, he had been in converse
ton with a friend and mess mate for
some time, with whom he had served
in the rebal army, and they were talk
ing over old scenes, difficulties and
hardships, and without any allusion to
his intention at the time, he drew out
his pistol and aiming at his left breast,
fired it off On being told that he had
shot himself he calmly replied that he
intended it, and stated that his inten-
ton was to shoot himself through the
heart, and wished to know how near
be had accomplished his purpose. He
afterwards asked for his pistol, think
ing he had failed in his purpose, and
wished that he had shot himself
through the head. Every attention was
paid TO him by admiring and sympa-
thising friends, but Of no avail.
His young and griefstlicken wife
whom he had only married about two
months ago, reached here at o clock,
only to witness with an agOnized heart
his untimely end lie expressed de
sire that his wife and mother should
be sent for, and gave directions as to
how and where he wished to be buried
lie was woTshipped by an idolized
and aged mother, and her grief is be
yond description, and what has been
to her in past life a source of consola-
ton and a mothers hopes, will hereaf
ter be q blank, flied with grief and
sorrow, and whose death will create
void in her affections, which none other
e er can fill. He had bis imperfections
and he had his virtues he was warm
in his attachments towards his friends,
and would sacrifice individual pleasure
and undergo personal risks to betrlend
a person to whom he had become at
tached. Naturally Of a iovial DISPOSE
ton, gifted in the requirements which
constitute mirth, and with more than
ordinary vivaGity of life, be would
have thought to have been the last one
that would be suspected Of filling q sui
cide's grave lie leaves a host of
friends who are unable 10 account for
bis strange conduct, and regret that he,
under any Circumstances, was forced
in seeming jusJIfi OF silent
wrong, or 20 rid his mind Of some un-
pleasant recollection, to take his own
life. /
But he is gone, and while ais manner
of death is deplored, his friendship is
none the less appreciated and gener-
osity applauded lie was buried as ne I
requested, and while in life he COM
manded the respect, esteem aad admi- |
ration OF his friends for his social and |
generous hearted qualities, So in death |
did he receive their sorrow, consolation |
and attendance.