Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-03-22

cerDed, lie would sacrifice lis own life
to protect that Of others, though they
were IN 10 actual danger.
"ln the third place, might not this
story Of the impulse be mere preience
10 excuse the commission Of suicide ?
Now there are no forms Of madness more
obscure IN their origin, more difficult to
detect, and more persistent, and more
fatal than suicidal rDariaj and as there
have been nlinerous csses in which per.
soDs who have destroyed themselves
have carefully prepared evidence tend
ing TO show that their death was acci
dental, why should there not be one 10
which the fatal act was TO be (far as pos
sible) justiiieds
=" In the fourth place, granting that
there was either real homicidal mania or
fancied homicidal mania tending 70 suicI-
dal, or rirnply the latter-was there
possibility ol cure .,r..
GAS the three first questions rested for
their solution on one ret of facts, and
the deduction tu be drawn ihprefrom, I
consider them together. A victim of
suicidal mania rarely il ever speaks of
suicide. When man says he a going
TO drownd himself, YOU loay generally
direct him to the cars Which Will take
him to the river side with the fullest con-
viciiUn that he will not breakfast with
crabs. II, an exceptional case, suicide is
mentioned, it will either be treated light.
ly as an act that it is not crime, or the
patient will be very earnest IN his assur-
ances, that he would never commit it
Remembering my poor friends manner,
/ noticed that he spoke of taxing bis
own lite with much more emotion than
he eyiiiced when he told me OF tile Inn
pulse to SHE'D the blood Of others. His
words, Il must have human life-if had
had pistol with me should have shot
her-soine day soon shall take pistol
on purpose and shoot her-I should
murder my keeper and go strait for
that innocent girl,' were spoken as calm
as though he said, Il owe five. dollars-l
must go aud pay them aud at the same
time with a tone oi deep cemmisefation
tor the predesiined victims. They were
TO die for no fault of their own, but they
were doomed to dea,ll-if he lived
When on the other hand, he spoke OF
saying their lives at the sacrifice of bis
o,rn Lis manner ,.hanyad M ou,, af
80 - ~ ,..,.,
hicteu Win e"iciuai H,iinia ever .iea'eu
eli-destruction with the horror, the con-
seriousness of its wiukedhess, and the re-
l;gious donb,s ma To its beipr tsrdurabls
81 ,,, ;r.,,,,s,onras r, rwb;cb h..
u"ue' ""y ~ N'
considered u. lie nao never once spo-
ken murder as a crime 1n1- ot-
| "After y long and careful considera-
,;on cune IA the followiup couclu-
I;o',' ! o'''"e ~ '"e io''o" ''s '''' o'N''
sionn ..,,
"Ic is mol iauorin8 uhdef suicioai ioa-
MIA. H itT pJ lre ru
"His impulse Is real, aud will have ia.
| tol ,rsulfs 1ni t
"a urnn6n.n,o,t !, a, asvInn, would have no
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'ne Ha'y y :" s'e nl
.Tho rov, n,o.,;nrJ addressed him ,bus
...pse,ra :. 7 ans,,.,.r van as Ia whether Won
vouid hn instifnJ hoSore God, under the i'm.
~, " 'ts,,l ,s,J M, of Ia ,atin,y vo,r owl,
s,Sv ;e - YOU 'gve ,,n ,Jsa I % Won mist answer
me- several ones,ions'
~tCo an, he said
..Wben vrr Consulted those doctors cid
vn,, ieu ,i,an, ali yo,r have told meY ..r.
| usNo. I aid not dare . I said that baC
! hor,;hJa ,hongh,s and rravin,rs but with )u
n"tarnle ;noes.s ,o;i. anu os AZ What ,hey were
o. ,meV 80 c,r ,s ,o usy f.nred was be
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