Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-12
LOVE DID IT.


the end, and after three ineffactuaI
attempts to take his own life Ira Cui
yer has at last succeeded in shutliinn
OH. The way i'll which he did it i
unique and new, and may. perhaps
give some new ideas to other gentle
men who have notions Of making
away with themselves. Ira first came
to th" notice of the police when. OH
September 1. he was picked up at the
foot of Meramec street with large
Sast in his neck, directly under the
chm and extending from ear to ear
The wound looked as though it might
have been made with butchers
cleaver or a broad axe. but owing to
the odor 1t emitted no one was willing
to al proach the victim nearer than
ten feet, to confirm his peculiar
theor.'. An ambulance was tele-
Srapi'ed for, which soon put in an ap-
peara nee. When Mr.. Bowels, the
drive called on the sergeant of the
preci Let and another police officer to
assist him in placing the man in the
aIi.oniance they undertook to COM
ply with his request; but when the
victim threw back his head and
exposed to view his gaping wound.
tlled with parasites and dead animal
tissue, the sight sickened them so
violently that they were compelled to
postpone their project. Two tramps
came along and caught sight of the
wounded man. One of these va
grants, addressing his companion, ex-
claimed: I'll be hanged, jim, if
that isn't the same party we saw with
hls throat cut over at Indian cave last
Thursday. Don't you recognize him?"
why, YES, Of course L do" jim
replied, as ho walked closer to tho
sick man and scrutinized his throat.
You are right; it's the same poor
devil. | thought when l last saw him
at Indian cave that he would be dead
by this time. He looks the same as
he did then, but | think his neck has
few more bugs in it."
The man was sent to the hospital.
but escaped in few days and was
again found three days later in the
southern part of the city. The tele-
gram came that dead man had boen
found, but when the city undertaken
appeared on the scene with a coffin
the alleged corpse sat up and grinned
a horrible grin and exposed to view
CHASTITY wound in tho throat. The
man rode to the hospital on his coffin
and was again placed in charge of
the authorities at that institution.
Ho received medical attendance regu-
larly, and the wound in the throat was
sewn up and silver tube introduced
for breathing purposes While the
wound was healing the man often ex-
pressed a desire to die, but it was not
thought that he would attempt self
destruction in the hospital. Satur-
day when the patients were called to
dinner it was found that Culver was
missing and Il search for the man was
instituted. He was found in the
court yard of the hospital, and All
examination showed that he was
dead. 1t was found that he had torn
the bandages from his throat and
then filled the silver tube with paper
and other material until he could not
breathe. He then tied the bandages
about his neck and using all his
strength drew the cords together and
fastened them. Tho result was that
he suffocated in a few minutes. The
head and neck presented horrible
appearance when found, the features
being distorted and expressing the
greatest agony. From what can be
gathered from the remarks let drop
by the man at the hospital during his
confinement there, it seems that there
was fatal romance connected with
his life that is now buried with him
in the grave. The story is that he
was once in good circumstances and
livedin johnson county, Kansas. He
there became acquainted with young
lady and soon won her affections.
The girls father did not encourage
Culver's attentions. and warred his
daughter to have nothing to do with
the man. Notwithstanding this, the
girl continued her associations with
Culver, and consented to meet him
clandcstinelv. The two lovers decid-
ed to consummate secret marriage,
but before it took place the girls
father heard of the affair and stepped
between the two, keeping the girl a
close prisoner at home. Tie informed
her that she should Immediately pre-
pare to marry young man that he
had picked out for her. This an
nouncemcnt drove the girl half crazy.
and her lover, Culver, did not have
the power or the nerve of the knights
Of old to rescue his sweetheart. The
girl was married according to her
fathers will and in six months was a
raving lunatic Culver then deter
mined to die, and he cut his throat
with q razor The wound was sewed
up and the man did not die. He
then became a semi insane wanderer
and never allowed his throat to heal,
but continually kept tearing the
| bandages from his neck until the
wound became a horrible spectacle,
filled with vermin and putrid flesh.
He wandered across tho State and
arrived in this city about the first Of
September. He was found at the
foot of Mcramec street and subse-
quently at the foot of Anna street
with the horrible wound in the neck
He finally succeeded in killing him
self Saturday. / Missouri Repub-
lican.
The season in the deer forests Of
Scotland is now pretty well over Mr.
Winans, of Baltimore. has slaught-
cred nearly 200 stays in the vast
track of combined forests for which
he pays nearly $4,000 year. The
deer have been in much better condi-