Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-11
HARIKARI.
A Pleasant Old Gentleman Of Teut0niC An
teeedeBts Goes to Sail upon the Mis-
slsslppi, and Suicides.
The Operation Performed According to the
Most Approved Chinese Method.
An Enlightened Jury Of Inquest Interview
the Corpse at Napoleon, Arkansas,
and Give Their Opinion,

From some passengers who came here
by the Glencoe yesterday morning, q
miscellaneous reporter learned q few par
ticulars Of a very respectable suicide that
took place on that boat Thursday night,
between Greenville and Napoleon. The
gentleman victim had taken passage at
New Orleans for st. Louis, on q boat
named the Ocesnus, but getting out st
Vicksburg he forgot to get back again
until the boat had started away from the
landing. He, however, got on the next
one that came along, which was no other
thar the Glencoe, bound Tor Louisville.
He intended to oVertake the boat he had
deserted, and attach himself once more to
his dear trunk and extra socks, He eager
Iy consulted the captain as to the where
sbOuts Of the time he would be likely to
overtake the OceRnus. He was very snX-
ious about o~vertsking her. He had a cabin
passage OK her, and he did not feel like
paying for another passage for an indeh-
mite time; so he paid as he went, at
the rate Of about q United States
mill per mile on deck. On Thursday
night he roasted round the deck, but did
not sleep very comfortably, II appears, for
he was noticed to be very uneasy and
restless. In the morning he was found
dead, and
BEAUTIFULLY CARVED UP.
His stomach or rather bowels were neat
" slit across, the flap turned down, and
the entrsils taken out. He was also mu-
tilated In a "A that our mOdesty for
bids us to describe. He was cut about
the breast much in the same way that
fat fish are scored preparatory to baking.
There was 8 deep clean cut dow his
right cheek, from the roots of the hair,
passing by the ear and down toward the
isWbone. In truth he was literally carved
up. He was laid out between two planks
and a tsrpsulin thrown over his face, and
so carried slOng to Napoleon, where the
bOst stopped for q brief time,
LNQUEsTED.
The Coroner Of the place was sent for,
and with him the captain of the boat had
a psrley. The Coroner did not like to go
to work on the corpus, because be thought
the "thingU was done in Mississippi. He,
however, was finally induced to sit in
Judgment. He gathered about him the
best crowd he could, and throwing the
t%arpaulin or sack back from the brow Of
the dead person, the Coroner said, Here,
gentlemen, what do you think Of this?"
The gentlemen looked into the matter for
five minutes and then unanimously said,
Suicide In the first degree" This deci-
sion was at Once taken as satisfactory and
conclusive. A coffin was procured and
into 1t the corpus was put
and tOted on shore to be de-
posted at the expense of the county. The
question never arose to the searching
mind of the astute jurors that, perhaps,
there was no "Hsri Kari after all, but g
good, square murder. The Wstchmsn Of
the boat said that he saw the deceased,
who was q German about fifty years Of age
and b~sld-hsaded, 90 back toward Ike boil
ers, pick up g coat and walk forward with
it again; that a fellow make q rush at him
with a knife, and that old leu
ton retreated, pulled out his own dirk
and slew himself by carving his
stomach. The coroner at Napoleon said il
would never DO to delay the boat for the
purpose Of entering into a long inqEiry
into the case. Both the Ocesnus and
Glencoe passed up yesterday morning.
Very little was said about the butchering
that took place on the latter boat.