Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-04
BLYMER'S SUICIDE.
THE COKoNERs1 s1NvEsrlG ALTON OF VT

AZ 4 SOIoNoxS AN ~H ~.
Tsking HIS Life Because of Distress About
His Family.
At 10 o'clock this morning Coroner
Shifer reassembled his jury and witnesses
to take testimony relative to the death of
George Blymer, whose suicide was report.
ed in yesterday 8 1NTELLIGENcER.
The first witness examined was Mrs.
Elizabeth Peters, who testified that Blymer
was greatly distressed by reasonof the in
fidelity Of his wife, and had several times
said he would commit suicide. Witness
had tried to dissuade him and urged him
not to worry himself, but hs was discon-
solate and wept bitterly, saying that all
this trouble had been brought upon him
by his wife. About a week ago he sold
his furniture and said he would go to
Philadelphia, where he could earn
$50 a week. After be sold his
property he went Oh spree and
spent all the money for drink. On
Monday morning he was sober and took
breakfast at witness house. He as ked
witness and her husband to take care Of
his children, promising to pay for their
board. Witness agreed to do all she could
for the children he kissed them. bid them
good bye and left tho house, and that was
the last she saw of him. His wife left him
last September, and Blymer said sho was
living with another man in Delaware.
John Langhran, engineer of engine No.
Al, Of the Pennsylvania railroad, which
ran over and killed Blymer, testified that
his train was running east on the south
track of the railroad yesterday morning
uear the Conestega bridge. There is a
heavy down grade at that point and he
was running at about twenty miles an
! hour. Looking ahead he saw man on
the track some 500 or 600 yards off. He
put his hand upon the bell rope with the
intention of ringing it, Dut as the man
left the track and crossed over to the
north side of the road he did not ring the
bell nor pay any further attention to the
matter. A moment later the fireman,
James A. Curren, said, "John, We have
| run over a man." He whist!ed down
brakes and stopped the train as soon as
possible and saw Blymer's body. with the
head cut off lying upon the track, tie
whole train having passed over him.
James A. Curren, the fireman, said he
saw the man leaning against the fence on
! the north side of the track, some hundred
Of yards ahead, as the engine approached
| he moved as thoug b he intended to cross
W GUo 6OuGA SIuCs NuCu tuC Cu%IuO wan
within few rods of him he deliberately
lay down with his neck across the north
rail of tho south track his feet extended
towards the south rail. Witness at
once notified the engineer that there was !:
the engine struck him and he saw his head
roll off to the side of the track. The
engineer wbistled down brakes. but the
entire train of thirty cars passed over him
before the train could be stopped.
| r. E. Fisher, the conductor of the train,
was in the caboose at the rear Of the traiu
when tho engineer wh,stled down brakes.
He supposed AN axle had broken or some
other accident happened the train. As
soon as it was stopped he jumped of and
saw the headless trunk of a man wedged
between two ties on the south track, aud
his head lying a few feet away. Almost
all the clothing had been torn from the
mans body, and one Of his arms was cut
off. The man was of small stature and
witness thinks the COW catcher did nOt
strike him but passed over him as he lay
between the rails. He took the body from
the track and placed tho discovered head
besides it.
Abraham Peters, husband of the first
named witness, corroborated his wife's
testimony, as 20 Blymer's great distress
about his wife and children, and his FIRE.
quent threats to end his life. by suicide.
Before leaving witness house on Monday
he requested witness to take care Of his
children. He had no money and witness
refused to give him any, believing he
would spend it for drink, as he had spent
all the money he had received from the
sale of his furniture. He said it was his
intention to walk to Philadelphia.
The coroner's jury composed Of the fol
lowing named gentlemen, G. A. Cast, D.
B. Shiffer, W. p. Compton, Henry s
Shenk, Emanuel Shay, and Thos. F. Me
Elligott returned verdict OF. .telo de Sc.
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