The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-07-20
am able under the circumstance to

am able under the circumstance to do
While 1 grasp and cock my little silver.
mounted pistol; this place to my head
ana pull the trigger, As draw the keen
Oladeu razor across my neck"
lie seems to have altered his bro
gramme and not used the dirk for the
heart, but to have shot himself in the
body instead AS far as the other details
go, he carried them out with the minutest
precision.)
"My feet must slip from their places by
this time and my legs will come into CON
tact with the wire and the fire upon it,
which will, of course, Immediately set my
clothing alight. intend the flame shall
run up the rope | shall allow to hang
down my back to the place where the
other torch will have been prepared. This
must sever the strands of the rope and |
can but fall into the water below to cook
and drown.
The only thing | can think Of that will
make 1t failure is that when stab my
sell III die too quickly to 90 through with
the remaining part of the programme.
know the heart to be the life-spring in the
body, and when that is struck YOU are al
ready on your way to eternity. Now, it
takes about three minutes for the blood to
pass through the body and return to the
heart. 1t this time is given me to live,
after | strike. | can and will finish ND in
good style Or if one-haf a minute, YES,
ten seconds is left me ! can make the
proper connections, and you will find me
IN Just the condition | would like to be in
''NoW LII give you joking reason for
selecting .his day and Chicago. In the
first place, Chicago is the city of the west
st. Louis is good enough in many matters
but Chicago suits me better in every par
ticular than all the Western places put
together. And Chicago is lively and fond
OF excitement and always gets ahead of
st. Louis when she can. There is an EN-
uation and generous rivalry between the
two cities which like, and Chicago being
my favorlte, | shall help her, in my hum
bic way, and Knock the spots off St. Louis
Louis may get up something in the same
line for the next centennial, but until then
Chicago will be ahead. She can claim
originality il, nothing more. am the
only Frederick Addison ,Jctlery who will
do this act first, and the only one who will
do it on the 4th Of July, 1876. fire but
one shot, yet that one puts Chicago so fur
out OF st. Louis sight that it will take 4
hundred years to put her near Chicago
again. Then, too, you know that this is a
chance to die which can never come again.
Think Of skipping out along with the last
stroke Of the midnight bell which pro-
claims the death of one hundred years of
Independence and the birth of the second
centennial Of freedom. could not let this
pass without suitable recognition. any
how"
This is all in the letter which is of any
public interest 1t will be despatched to
his relatives through the Coroner
There remains but little more to be said
upon this melancholy and indeed eXtraor-
binary subject at the present writing.
The remains We're placed in 4 handsome
collin, the effects taken charge of by the
Coroner, who viewed the body. heard all
the information that has been given in
these columns, and who directed the re-
mains to be taken to the undertaker's
which was accordingly done.