Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-11-30
SALLES'S SUICIDE.
A Preach BARBER Sends Ballet Into
His side
And Puts an End 10 a Very UNHAPPY
Existence.

Shortly before o'clock yesterday after
noon messenger summoned Justice
Fleming to hold an inquest upon the body
of Clement SALES, No 65 Linden street.
The CORPSE was found lying Upon bed in
the front room, Tie hsad Upon q pillow,
the pallid face uncovered, and a jury
which was at once impaneled, gathered
about the bed, while DIR. S. A. Pool, who
was the dead mans physician, made an
explanation OF all he knew of the sad
affair. He stated that he had been sum-
moned by Mrs. SALES to attend her hus-
band. about IL 80 clock, and that he had
answered the call without delay. Tile first
thing that attracted his attention was a
pistol which lay upon the bureau Just
within the door. He placed his hand upon
it and found 1t still warm and smoking.
Mrs. Sales stood near the bed, weeping
passionately. She said something inco-
herently, and pointed toward the bed. The
unfortunate man, when approached by
DIR. Pool, attempted to speak but was not
able to make himself understood, and after
a few powerful efforts to do SC, sank back un-
conscious. HIS pulse was found to be beating
feebly, but within fifteen minutes lie was
extinct. The ball entered the left side,
between the third and fourth ribs, passing
completely through into the hollow, as
DIR. Pool ascertained by inserting probe.
The doctor added that the deceased called
upon him day before yesterday and asked
for medicine. He seemed to have little
fever, but not enough to make him deliri-
Gus, though he talked and acted very
strangely for sane man. Another wit
ness testified that he had frequently no.
ticed the dead man acting in a peculiar
manner, and that on one occasion when
he (witness) was passing the house in COM
rnar xx-ith ftt.inf Sollas
seemed very much excited and had good
deal to say about his troubles and busi-
ness, though he stated nothing very
clearly. 1t appeared, however, that he
had some family trouble and wanted the
| chief to arrest his mother-in-law. One or
two others made similar statements,
and from all the testimony the re-
porter gathered that SALES had been
| drinking too much of late, and had fallen
into bad health. Also that, perhaps, for
these reasons he had been unfortunate or
unsuccessful in his business and unhappy
in his domestic relations, and had be-
come respondent. The investigations of
the jury terminated with the examination
OF the widow, who had been moaning
| piteously in an adjoining room, and now
came forward in transport of grief.
When; the-dcer was opened to admit her
some kind-hearted man tossed the cover
over the livid dead face, but the widow
gently drew it aside again, sank upon her
knees by tho bedside, and throwing her
arms about the neck of the corpse, covered
the upturned face with passionate kisses,
calling upon her husband to come back
| to her and the children again. Again
some kind friend interfered and forced
her to leave the room. Before leaving
however, she managed to say that her
husband had complained of feeling un
well in the morning, and that little after
noon he called her to him and asked for q
drink of water. She left him and walked
into the adjoining room to comply with
his request, and when about to return
with glass of water heard pistol shot
She rushed in and found her husband
writhing upon the bed with bleod on his
chest. The pistol lay ON the bed just out
of his reach, and he was making desperate
efforts to seize 1t, but was prevented by the
wife, who snatched the weapon and bid il
aside. He did not speak again. The yer
dict of the jury was soon afterward rem
dered in accordance with the above facts
Clement Sales was a native of France
He came to America some thirty year,
ago, and at the time of his death was
about forty-eight years of age. He has
lived for number of years in Memphis
doing business as barber, and at one
time had quite a lucrative business, bu
lately has done very little. He leaves {
wife and four boys, the eldest fifteen year,
| of age