The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-05
NEARLY DEAD
Was Charlie Allen When
Found in His Cell at the
Jail Yesterday.
He Attempted to End His Troubles
by Taking His Life by
Hanging.

II was Just minutes after 3 O'Clock, yes
terday afternoon, when the inmates Of the
county Jail were startled from their dreary
aad m0nstonous life by hearing . sullel
thud, accompanied by smethered groans,
indicative Of . choking, proceed from one
Of the cells in the upper tier.
Almost instantly sumo of the prisoner,
raised an alarm, and Sheriff Conner,
proceeded BY q turnkey, rushed int
the Jail and up the prison
steps. They ran to the cell from whence
came the sounds, there to find Charles
THE THRoEs OF DEATH.
Holding him up was . negro man, who had
gotten to him first, and but for whose inter.
ference Charles Allen would new be .
corpse, instead of sitting an his home and
BY his swp freside.
The story of Aliens crime need not be
ret0ld, nor Of his arrest out in Colorado
and return to this city. But of his at
tempt to take his own life, for such ie was,
cool, deliberate and almost successful, there
10 much that might be Aritten were all the
causes leading pto it brought to light
No dOub. bat he feels the grip Of the Law
tightening around him; no doubt but
shame and remOrse burn and lash hin /;
no doubt but he looks At the
SHATTERED HULK
of his life rs it lies stranded on the beach,
and that out of his heart ali hope and
courage have faded away, and he longs for
the quiet of death, but he has no right to
further disgrace those who bear his name,
by at last winding up his wretched course
BY taking his own life. He forgets that
at is better to bear the ills We have, thap
Hy to those We know not of"
But to the immediate cause which led to
the atteY. pit At suicide:
After Alien was brought back by Henry
Stringer. ne managed 10 give q new bond,
going before Judge Lacy TO do SO. Bat it
was Stringer's duty to have turned hin
over to Sheriff Conner, rs that officer had
an alias caPias for Allen,
issued By order of Judge
Ryland after hs had fed the country. In
stead Of Stringer doing this he went to
work to secure Aliens liberty by . bond
This was last Wednesday. On Friday,
about o'clock, Prosecuting Attorney
Heard, not satisfied with the way matters
stood, ordered Aliens arrest Under the
alias capias. Allen, in company with his
attorney, w. D. Steele, and Mr.. Heard,
went to the circuit clerks Office to msAs
out new bond. Mr.. Heard said the cir
clit clerk was the one 20
FIX THE BOND,
and SO instructed Merit Athy to prepare
one.
Athy protested that he was not the one,
hut Mr.. Heard, SO states Mr.. Steele, urged
it. Then Steele told Heard to write cut
the bond and it would be filled. This he
did and handed it to Athy, telling him -
approve it when..it was satisfactorily signed.
The bond was given to Allen and Mr..
Steele, and they soon had il filled
Then Mr.. Heard claimed this bond Vas
and he brought another bond to be nllea
out. This was about five O'Clock, and tee
late for the securities to be seen. The 10
suit was that Allen was locked up.
The case seemed hopeless to Allen and
he grew more and more respondent, until
he determined as above stated, to end it all
BY taking his life.
The BAzOO reporter visited the Jail YES
day afternoon after hearing OF the almost
Tragic fate If Allen, and from sheriff Con.
ner learned the following particulars Al
len had the liberty of the Jail, and at three
l'clock the sounds already mentioned,
we're heard in his cell When found he was
hanging suspended BY the neck to the hasp
IF the cell door, his neck tie, . plain black
'ilk one. forming the connecting link.
THE BND AROUND HIS NECK
had been made into slip moose, and when |
ne dropped his weight upon it, it became .
'ery tight fit, so tight, in fact, as 10 almost
;ause death. As quickly as possible, the
roHld-be suicide was cut down and laid
Tut on bunk. DR.. Overstreet was sum
noned and when he first examined Alleu |
,e thought he had taken poison, as every |
pointed 10 that means BY which |
life can be ended.
Restoratives were applied, and in due
ime the man who was almost . corpse was |
bout As usual.
Later in the evening . new bond. signed
y Henry d. Stringer and brother, Bed
'hobe, Sam Highleyman, Frank
J. r. Stewart
Dick Baker and Bob Shy, was present.
d to Mr.. Conner, and he turned Allen cut,
flowing him to 60 home, which he did,
nd where he now is.
The friends of Allen predict that now he
) out of Jail he will behave himself and
ot again attempt the rash deed. It is
oped SO. There is said to b $4,000 in
urance on Aliens life