The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
SUICIDE AT WEST RUTLAND.
A workman mt the Rutland Marpie
Compnny,s quarry browns HIM
self In whippie Hollow BROOK.

sad case of suicide was developed OF
West Rutland yesterday, Saturday by the
discovery, in stream back of the Rutland
Marble company's quarries, called Whipple
Hollow Brook, of man who had been
missing since Wednesday night. The
mans name was John Copt. He came to
West Rutland about year ago and has
worked for the Rutland Marble company.
He had friend who came here with him
from Switzerland, named Julian Tierce,
French familys, near the yard of the mar
BILE company. Copt had been sick for a
week or SO and incapacitated from work
during the time was troubled with
cough and sickness at his stomach he
would not have doctor although urged to
do so, and had bought a little cherry pee
toral as his only medicine. OF late he had
seemed very much cast down and dis
couraged because he could not work, and
his manner showed that his condition was
worrying him, so much so that he APP
peared entirely unlike himself; he was
usually healthy, however, and there seemed
no real cause for alarm.
On Wednesday night he retired with his
comrade about nine o'clock. AT about
two o'clock in the morning Tierce awoke
and found that Copt was not in bed, but,
thinking nothing strange of it, went to
sleep again. The next day Tierce became
somewhat alarmed at the non-appearance
of his friend, and some of the workmen,
fearing that he had either fell into the
quarrles or had thrown himself in, began
to rake some of the deep quarries to find
the body. Their search was, however, I'M
successful and the disappearance was
shrouded in mystery.
Yesterday noon, however. young man
named Fields, while fishing in Whipple
Hollow Brook, was Mortified at the sight
of mans body lying in the water, near
the shore, face downward ard immersed in
the bed of the stream. He at once gave
the alarm and DR.. Lorenzo Sheldon, Capt.
VIM. Gilmore and numerous others went
to the spot. They found the body lying
in about two feet and half of water, his
coat and hat thrown down on the bank and
his other clothes remaining.on him. On
examination it was found to be the body of
the missing man, John Copt. The remains
were Immediately taken up and carried to
his boarding house where an investigation
was held oyer the case. In the
pockets was found receipt from Henry
+. Fieh, cashier Rutland county national
bank, for draft on bank of England for
1925, which Copt had probably received
from his friends in the old country. The
appearance of the body was such as to
leave no doubt in the minds of those who
examined it, that it was a case of deliber-
ate. suicide. accomplished, undoubtedly,
while laboring under state of temporary
insanity, brought on by the anxiety and
gloomy condition he had been in for some
DAYS. Under the circumstances it was con-
sidered unnecessary to call a jury of in
quest and the remains will, it is under
stood, be buried to-day at West Rutland.
The deceased was about thirty years of
age, unmarried, and had no relations in
this country; was an intelligent. hard
working man, and well liked by his fellow
laborers. The case is one of the saddest
which we hayc been called upon to chroni-
Gle for some time