Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-09-27
SHOCKING SUICIDE.
0esrge W. Leo Ends His LIE WIN
Raxor-Probable Causes ef ~
Rash Acs.

About 8 o'clock last evening George
W. Lee, the well.known and popular
clerk in the brokers' Office Of F. A. Tritle.
inflicted such injuries on himself with q
razor that he died three hours later.
The deed vas done at the house Of
Fred. D. Nichol. 50 South E street, vir'
Rinia. Leo had been feeling respondent
and unwell for q few days and was under
the treatment Of Q doctor. About 8
O'Clock last evening Mr.. Nichol knocked
at the door Of his room to take him some
tea and toast. Lee requested him not
to come in Just then and Mr.. Nichol re-
tired. he shortly after heard Q fall.
when he took the tray with the tea and
toast and went to the room. He knocked
at the door, and receiving no answer.
entered the room. He found Lee lying
on the floor. by the side OF the bed, and
saw that his throat was cut.
The man, however. was still alive.
and physicians were at once summoned.
who examined the wound In the throat
and found that II was not at all serious,
a. 1t had cut neither the jugular mol the
windpipe. being too low down.
The physicians sswed up the cut, and
wondered that their patient should be 30
feeble and have . pulse which was
scarcely psrcsptible. As he seemed
dying from loss Of blood they examined
him and found another cash in his right
thigh, which. while 1t had not severed
the artery there, had severed many
smaller bloodvssssls, which had blsd
~profusely.
They were at once satisAed from ita
appearance that this wound had been
inflicted before that in the throat. BE
was scarcely alive whom this cash was
discovered, and. In spite Of all that
could be done. died soon after. There
can be no doubt that the wounds were
se~lf.inAicted, for yesterday he said to
his physician that he felt Q bunch In his
groin, and asked about whore the femo'
raj artery lay. Nothing was thought.
however, OF the inquiry at the time.
There are several theories advanced
by Mr.. Lees friends to account for his
thus taking himself of. One II that he
had made considerable money In Sierra
Nevada q year ago and lost II again. he
Was, some ten years ago, thrown from Q
buggy on the GeiRer grade and very ssri'
ously injured. His nose was broken
and his head badly hurt. It Is thought
that he has never been quite right In
his head since. It has always been sur.
missed by his friends that he was assault
cd ct that time. as his head was 90
bruised and his wounds Of such Q ma.
turs that they could not have been in
flicted by simply being thrown from o
buggy. When found at that time be
was CORY and senssless. and the lady
who was with him was compelled to
leave him and walk into town.
It cannot be denied that upon the
subject Of his Disagreement he was mos,
sensitive. II was the frequent theme oil
his conversation, and never since its
occurrence have his relatives and friends
been able to induce him TO return East
for Q visit.
1t is not improbable but that all OF
the causes above detailed contributed to
the deed Of last evening. His many
and respectable friends on tho Comstock
are shocked ut the occurrence. and can
only account for II as above stated. He
was q general favorits among his many
associates. always courteous, kind and
attentive to business.
Mr.. Lee was q man So years Of age. q
native Of Ballston Spa, Saratoga county.
New York, and unmarried. Coroner
Brodsk inqusstsd his death at 3 P. N.