The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-02-22
AN UNHAPPY SUICIDE.

Wnerc ne reprtSenGeu W b'O ~
that place that he was sent to the plague
stricken cities of the South by the Odd
Fellows of Missouri, and in fact had q
letter from the Noble Grand of Odd Eel
lows, of that State, recommending him to
the Order Col. Garland =. Ware reprc>
senting the Towards, declined to accept
his services as the Association did not have
the means to pay him, and he left for Mem
phis, which was the last we ever heard of
him, until reading the following in the New
Orleans Times
Yesterday morning, Deputy Coroner Donovan,
at the central station, held the inquest the body
of DIR. G. Harrison Gray, who committed suicide At
half past twelve O'Clock in the morning, in one of
the closets at the St. Charles Hotel.
The inquest failed to develop anything beyond
the fact that about midnight the dec ased entered
the hotel, and without word to any strobe
past the clerks office, the bridge and into
closet in the rear. Shortly thereafter the report
OF pistol rang out sharp and distinct. reyerber-
ting through the lofty rotunda, and arousng the
few present to activity.
Following the direction of the sound, they hur-
ried TO the closet, but finding it locked assisted
boy through the transOm the door, The lad
looked in and saw sight calculated shake strong
er nerves than his, Gor there lying as it were all in
a heap, was Dr. Gray with blood aud brain oozing
from bullet hole in his right temple His eyes,
starting from their Sockets had u scared look, and
he restlessly rolled from side to side
Beside him lay pistol, the dread instrument
which he had chosen MS the medium Of his exit
from the world The door quickly opened and |
he was brought foi th and placed on mattress ON |
the gallery. Meanwhile Ds. Scott and Schuppert
had been sOmmoned, and On consultation their
arrival, it was apparent to them that Gray's min
utes earth We're numbered.
Gray seemed conscious Of his surroundings, and
increased the horrors OF the soete by his vain efforts
to Speak. He struggled conyulsiyely to make his |
voice perform its office, but alas it only resulted
in cultural sound, lost in q faint wall Of agony
A stretcher was sentfor on which he was laid |
be borne to the station to die bat en- route at the
corner of Carondelet and Poydms streets, he
breathed his last
After the inquest the unfortunate man had no !
friends to give the last sad rites Dr. Walker Bailey,
Jr., came forward and took charge of the body. il
He did it Ia spirit Of generosity most commentaries
Tor he could not bear the idea o seeing the body of
with him, had risked his life lighting he fever in
Holly Springs in the very hetghto the horrors Of l.
the epidemic. "
Dr. Bailey saw the body oi his comfrere properly II
attended, and last evening followed it to the grave II
Among Dr. Grays papers we've found his diploma h
as doctor of medicine from the Columbia College, fc
Washington, D. C., under date Of 1865 a certificate A
signed Julien c. Field NJ d., secretary of the 10
medical | W
trct, Sherman, Texas dated Nov H. 1870 and an pc
appointment as acting assistant surgeon, dated pc
United States flag ship Colorado June &c. 1871 at eli
Isle Boise anchorage Corca signed John Rodgers ed
rear-admiral, commander-n-chicf Of the Asiatic ia
station. hi
vial Of morphine anil opium taken from his WV
pockets, conveyed the story Of one Of his fangs +
aud in all probability the principal cause Of his act
of self destruction. W
DESTROYS OF more fully asccrtainng DR.. Gmy's ~,
Identity and his movements while in this city n | g.,
Times reporter took up the trial and accompanied az
" Coroner Marley and Deputy Donovan, went ~,
rom place to place until every means OF informal L.
ion exhausted. Nv
AT the st. Charles it was learned that he came ~"
here on the 18th inst, registering as from Denn- ~,
oR, Texas. He remained at the hotel until the - a.
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