The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-04
Faint and Weak He Sinks
Down and Begs for
Help.
And There is a Dashing Woman
In the Case.
The Story in Full.

my God he's cut his throat"
Ii was Marshal Shy who gave utterance
10 these words, this morning, in the police
court, at about $50 o'clock.
There were present at the time, besides
the marshal, Officers Joe Gossage and
J. ID. Fessler, BAZoo reporter
and the man who had SO sud-
denly, coolly, even premeditatedly, at
tempted to end his life by cutting his
throat.
WHERE 1T WAS DONE.
4 BAzoo reporter, while walking along
Second street, at the hour above men,
toned, had his attention attracted TO Mar
shall Shy and a man who has been in the
city for some weeks and known as George
4. Gary, going towards the police station.
Seeming something i'm the way of an item,
he followed the two men, walking just be-
hind Gary, who looked back two or three
times, as if suspecting something was
wrong His right hand was in his right
hip pocket and he was evidently handling
a weapon of some kind.
There was an uneasy, restless air about
the man, and that he was under arrest was
clearly evident. His actions aroused the
suspicious of the reporter and he thought
that Gary was about to make an attack on
the marshal. Suddenly shifting his hand
from the hip pocket to the one in front, he
gave no further evidence of any motive or
design, whatever.
But the reporter saw, even in that quick
Notion, the blade of knife and he felt that
ABLooDY TRAGEDY
was about to be enacted.
Stepping to the side of Marshal Shy, the
reporter was about to speak to him when
he noticed Officers Gossage and Fessler
inst approaching, and the intended warn
ing was not given.
AT THE POLICE STATION.
The party soon reached the station,
where the marshal intended to have a
quiet talk with his prisoner. He took
bold of a chair to offer him a seat, but
Gary had passed by him and entered cell
No. 2, the officers remaining outside.
During all this time not word had
been spoken by any one, except an inquiry
from the reporter which was unanswered.
IN THAT CELL
the bloody tragedy was enacted which NAV
send the soul of George A. Gary, alias
Norman Prouse, into eternity, with what
ever guilt and crime it may be blackened.
Instantly Marshal Shv exclaimed, any
God he's cut his throat % and then the
three officers rushed into the cell, caught
the would-be suicide by the wrists and
arms and pulled him out.
CHASTITY STREAM OF BLOOD
was pouring from his throat and, as it fell
on the floor, it spattered over the officers
and on the walls with crimson stain.
NEVER MIND, BOYS"
said the bleeding man; Il know what I've
done; Pm ready to GO"
He was perfectly cool and collected, and
seemed to be perfectly resigned to meet
death, even at his own hand
Marshal Shy at once sent a messenger
for a doctor, and almost instantly DIR.
King was at the side of the wounded man
PUT HIM ON THAT TABLE
ordered the doctor, but the man seemed de-
termined not to let any one interfere with
the work of death. He wanted to die and
his resistance at the attempt to put him ON
the table was simply Herculean.
THE OFFICERS,
some half dozen of them, assisted by as
many citizens as could get hold of the man,
struggled and pulled and lifted, with all
their combined strength. but Jailed TO ac-
complish their purpose.
Gary seemed endowed with the strength
of Sampson, and was as immovable as the
rock of Gibralter Added to his strength
was his great weight which must be at least
225 pounds, and which gave him double
advantage in the fight.
HE STILL. HELD TO THE KNIFE,
and tried to .disembowel :himself, but was
prevented by those holding his right arm.
Not until the nippers were placed on
him did they succeed in handling him, and
even then he so struggled and resisted as to
sink the chains deep into the flesh of his
wrists.
AT last, after most exciting struggle, in
which one man resisted the united strength