The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-07-12

me down. i Will then PACK everything but
the clothes which am to wear, and then
being all ready, Pll fill the tank with as
hot water as / can get. Then mount
the tub with foot on each side
OF It; carefully pour the liquor over my
pants legs and coat and shut; will allow
a rope of some soft material to fall from
the torch above down my back; will then
light the prepared torch on the wire which
/ then will be standing over; will raise
myself up tiptoe and fix the rops about
my neck. It shall be well soaped, so that
when my feet leave the sides of the tank
and my full weight comes upon 1t, It will
draw up pretty tight. One thing 1
had almost forgotten to mention, l am
going to put a mirror before me
Just to see IL L will be frightened. think
it Is more likely that shall laugh, but as
1 want to enjoy it all I'll put the glass up
anyhow. Next i reach for the tumbler OF
poisons, conveniently near, and swallow
It's contents entire, probably shall sigh Tor
more. Well, at this point 1 shall hurry
Up, for deadly acids work destruction
quickly. l next grasp my pretty little
dirk and send 1t with all my force into my
breast as near to a blackened spot show
ing where the heart is as possible.
THE RAZOR AND PISTOL ARE ALL READY
and suspended by cords, it must be remem-
bered. So after plupging the dagger in 1
do not want to withdraw it, but take the
razor in my left hand and as firmly as l
am able under the circumstances to do,
while grasp aud cock my little silver
mounted pistol; this place to my head
and pull the trigger as / draw the keen
bladed re- zor across my neck" He seems
to have altered bis programme, and not
used the dirk for the heart, but to have
shot himself in the body instead. As far
as the other details 20, be 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 il,
| 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 rope and / can
but fall into the water below to cook and
drown. The only thing can think
of that will make it failure is
that when l stab myself I'll die too quickly
TO go through with the remaining part OF
the programme. j know the heart to be
the liie-spring in the body, and when that
is struck you are already on your way to
eternity. Now, it takes about three min
utes for the blood to pass through the
body and return to the heart. If this
time is given me to live after 1 strike.
can and will finish it up in good style. Or
II one-half 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 I'll give you a joking reason for
electing this day and Chicago. In the
trst place, Chicago is the city of the West.
st. Louis is good enough In many matters,
but Chicago suits me better in every par
ticulsr than all the Western places put to-
gether. And Chicago is lively and fond
of excitement and always gets ahead of St.
Louis when she can. There is an emuls-
ton and generous rivalry between the two
cities which 1 like, and Chicago
being my fsvorite shall help
her, in my humble way, and
knock the spots off st. Louis In celebrating
the centennial Fourth. st. Louis may get
Cp something in the same line for next
centennial, but until then Chicago will be
ahead. She can claim originality, if
nothing more. I am the only Frederick
Addison Jeffery who will do this act first,
and am the only one who will do 1t on
the 4th of July, 1876. 1 fire but one shot,
yet that ore puts Chicago so far
out of st. LOUIS sight that 1t will
take a hundred years to put her near Chi
cago again. linen, TOO, you know tnat shls
is chance to die which can never come
again. Think OF skipping out along
with the last stroke of the midnight bell
which proclaimed the death of 100 years of
independence and the birth of the second
centennial of freedom. ! could not let
this pass without suitable recognition
anyhow" This is all in the letter which
is of any public interest. 1t will be dis
patched to bis relatives through
he coroner. There remains but lit
tie more to be said upon this
melancholy and indeed extraordinary sub
ect at the present writing. The remains
were placed in a handsome coffin, the
effects taken charge of by the coroner, who
viewed the body, hesrd all the information
that has been given in these columns, and
who directed the remains IL be taken to
the undertsker's, which was accordingly
done. The inquest will be held to-day.