Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-04-24

SHOCKING SUIcIDE.-A AGa PlGnges
into Furnace tchile at White Hea..
Scranton Republican, Of Saturday says ::
Shortly before one O'Clock yesterday morn
ing the men working on the night shift at
he blast furna ce of the Lackawanna iron
and coal company were horri6ed by one of
the most shocking cases Of se!fdestruction
that has ever occurred in this city. The
victim of the suicide was a strange young
man named Theodore Marone, who while
the workmen at No. furnace were enjoy
ing short respite from their laoors took
advantage Of their temporary absence and
plunged into the seething furnace, which at
the time was at white heat.
His cries attracted the attention of one of
the workmen named Duffy, who, together
with his companions, ran 10 the furnace
and looked down, only to see the unfortun-
ate Marone gyrating amid the liquid fire,
and waving his hands and feet in the most
intense agony. A long handled showed
was lowered to him, but he was unconsci-
GUS of its presence. Ore OF the men ran
Immediately and stopped the blast, but hu-
mum aid was Of no avail TO save the unfor
tunate man in the furnace, and he was
dragged up as quickly as possible by means
of large hook, q charred, disfgured aud
and unacceptable mass.
He could not have been in the furnace
above a few minutes, as his first shrill cry
was heard by the workmen who FASTENED
to his assistance, but the intense beat OF
the place was sufficient to destroy life if be
had not been there more than second.
He was conveyed to Mr.. Raub's under.
taking establishment, where o large box
had to be constructed to enclose his re-
mains. His knees and elbows were con-
tracted and SO rigid that it was impossible
10 straighten them. He was inferred at
Dunmore cemetery yesterday afternoon.
The sequel of the suicide goes TO show
that the rash act was premeditated. The
odore Marone was q native Of Pomarn,
East Prussia, where his father occupied
a splendid position ss professor in one Of
the gymnasums or schools Of the place, in
which Theodore was also employed as a
teacher. fIe was subsequently, engaged in
the war that occurred in 1855 between
Prussia and Austria, and emigrated 10 this
country about four years ago. He was
then twenty-five years ofage-.being twenty
nine at his death--and might have done
well but for the dissolute habits which be-
act him and reduced him to a state Of sb-
ject misery.
He found work in the employ OF tie Ok
ford iron company as common laborer,
and often at his daily toll, when, comparing
his position with what he was at home. he
wept in the presence Of his fellow-workmen,
among whom was q man named Nearle, at
present in this city. These G!s of desp0n-
dency had terrible effect upon him, and
bis friends feared be would lose his reason
while suffering from ono of them.
He came to Scranton on Tuesday last,
and found shelter at the Centre street lock-
up. While there he attempted to take his
life by heating poker red-hOt in the stove
and placing it to his neck to destroy the
carotid artery, when he was detected by
one of the officers. lie lay around the blast
furnace during the evening prior to his des-
truciiou 10 consequence of some men being
lot int
ed at the Oxford iron mines. His sad his
tory and his ssdder fate show that, like
Hoods unfortunate heroine, he was weary
of lie, and
"---glad to b. huri'd
Anywhere, anyvhers out Of the world"