The bee., 1883-06-02
QUEER MOTIVES.
Reasons Which Impel S-s.e Men to Commit
Suicide.

Su1cldCs
The published accounts of 1,6O6 sui
cldes contain queer stories. 1t will
hardly be credited that a man would
XIII himself because his mule died, but
report from North Carolina in 0cto-
Der says that "Caleb Hobbs committed
suicide on account of the death of a
mule to which he was attached. The
mule died Friday, and the owner wept
over it until to-day, when he remarked
that he could not live without his mule,
and mixing a lot of whisky and laud-
anum, swallowed it. He was found
dead" Another tale from Ohio is
barely credible, as it relates that one
Joseph Kuder, "On trial at the small
village Of Toutagony for kissing the
wife of recently married man, COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic" An
Oregon youth, aged nineteen years,
loved his cousin and shot himself
through the heart after inScribing on
Rvisiting card the words: 4" My Fannie,
no man has ever died for you" A
small market gardener in Illinois hung
himself because his corn was rCtting
in the ground. Another Illinois man
shuffled off this mortal coil because he
had lost his best boy and best COW, and
didn't want to live any longer. A
kuperstitiOus merchant in New York
cut his throat because a customer sent
him letter asking for the latest quota
tions in locking glasses. An eXtrava-
giant wife of poor Colorado doctor
twallOwed arsenic because her lenient
tather, who had supplied her with
money for many years, had resolved to
draw the string of his money-bag
closer, and not send her any more
money, as he was deSirouS of her be-
coming more economical in her ways.
A Missouri father was overcome with
shame on learning that his son had
stolen a watch, and ended his woe 10y a
dose of poison.
An Ohio young man drowned himself
because his "Clara had Tilted him in
the following cruel style:
You may say am perfection,
Say you love to see me smile;
y
Though you're iesting all the whilei
You may whisI or loving pleadings,
Woo me with gentle sigh,
But your vows like chat will scatter
You'll forget me by-and-bye.
A New Jersey inventor devised a
corn husker, which was a failure be-
cause it only worked satisfactorily on
large ears therefore he suicided. a
San Francisco hunchback left word
behind him that blood rushed to his
head, which seemed to be shrinking
through his shoulders, and his bones
were tangled one with the other
rendering him wild with pain. The
force of example is remarkable; a st.
Louis shoemaker shot himself because
he lived within a block of shoemaker
who severed his jugular vein, and this
deed preyed upon his mind. A sailor
tied rope about his neck and leaped
overheard. His body was towed into
port before being discovered. A Yer
mont widow hung herself with skein
Of yarn. A Virginian made four at
temptS to take his life, and finally
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head with shotgun. The
muzzle of the weapon was placed
against his right eye and discharged
by string fastening TO the trigger
and tied around toe of the right foot
A Pennsylvania wheelwright used a
hatchet, knife and rope. With the
hatchet he struck himself three times
on the back of the head, with the knife
he severed his windpipe, but missed
the jugular vein, and with the rope he
strangled himself. An Illinois me-
chanic hung himself to a ladder in the
bell tower of a church and was dis
covered 10y a frightened sexton. A
Californian spread a blanket on the
floor by the side of his bed, tied small
rope round his neck so as to draw
through loop, and tying the other
end around the top Of the bed-post,
less than two feet above the floor, lay
down with his right arm under his
head, and strangled to death. An Iowa
farmer cut his wrists with a plane, and
afterward hung himself to fence five
feet high. The distance was so short
that in order to produce death he was
obliged to draw his knees up even with
his ewes and hold them there with his
elbows. An old man of eighty years.
living in Western New York, foretold
the day of his death, and to fulfill his
prediction cut his throat from ear to
ear with a razor which he held in one
hand, and which he had tied with a
string SO it could lot move when doing
the deed. A California powder maker
made his exit with giant powder, and
was blown to ShredS.