New-York tribune., 1886-08-21
ALIVE AFTER SEVEN SHOTS.
SURVIVING BOTH MORPHINE AND PISTOL

THE OPERATION PERFORMED on woULD-By SUI
CIDE-PLEADING YoR DEATH.
Seven pistol shots rang through the corridors of tho
Grand Union Hotel yesterday at $40 .. m.. inst a.
largo number Of guests were comm into the hotel
from the Grand Central Station All was confusion
and excitement and one Of the hall BOYS ran out Of
breath, into the hotel Office exclaming In quiveng
voice that some one had committed mur der on the
third floor. w. ID. Garrison tho hotel manager,
hurried from the ofice aud called OIicer Mac Neyin
and together they upstairs and were pilotcd by
the boy to the where the shots had been heard
The officer broke open the door and found seated In
chair close by the bed an old man, with his head
bowed upon his chest and the blood streaming from
wounds in bis head and throat His face red and
his white shirt was dyed with the crimson fluid. In
his right hand was the smoking weapon. was also
covered with blood. His legs were crarnped on tn
door and he had the appearance of man who had
talen into the chair and had not moved afterwar d
The man ased his head slightly opened his ewes anf
groaned. The officer shook him and then he reused.
and Strengthened up in the chair Mr.. Garrison asked
him why he had tried to kill himself lie shook his
head sadly ana said
81 am glad Of il. ] hope will diev Po lice Cap-
tain Schultz entered the this point endeav-
ored to get something Of the mans history from him.
All that he would say that he was tired of life
at the hotel that be arrived on the Boston train
about 10 p. m. on Thursday night. lie was WELL
dressed, had o mustacbe and full beard and from
general appearances woud lie taken for N an living
in the country aud well to do lie registered as Mar
shall J. liman. of Barre, Mass He was assigned TO
Room Z. l3 on the third door facing Lexington.
ave. He went at once to his aud turned ont tho
light in a little while. and the watchman in the hall
noticed that he breathed heavily during the night.
He went out of the hotel carly 10 the morning without
eating hrs breakfast and returned about p. m In
the hotel office before he went out he walked up and
down with his hands behind his back aud had ths air
Of a person absorbed in thought. He would strike
against obstacles without paying any attention to
them aud several persons who HIM thought that
he was a melancholy old man. lie started for his
in hurried manucr and In a short time shot
himself.
An ambulance was summoned and tue woIndci man
taken TO Bellevue Hospital lie was conscious all
the time and told the surgeon that he was merchant
and that his son-in-law's name was +. J. Barret, q
clerk with the BOwker Fertilizer Company OF No. 20
Beayerst. After he admitted to the hospital hs
begged the doctors to let him die as he tired OK
lite and had nothing to live for After much ques-
tioning he said that he had come TO New-Yor for tho
purpose of killing himself lie did not have the
age TO kill himself where his family was. After going
to the hotel Thursday night he took large dose OF
morphine to end his life and surprised to wake up
in the morning lie thought that he had taken
enough kill him he had asked his physician how
much ot the drug would be fatal dose. Finln, tlat
the morphine would not do the work. probably
because he had been used to taking IT, he deter mined
10 use "a pistol lie went from the hotel tho
morning for purpose of killing himself in Central
Park, bat eyeryt thing bright aud green there
that his courage failed him and he wandered around
all day with the thought of suicide III his mind. bu5
without the will to carry II ont. lie has long been
sufferer from dyspepsia and this with some trouble
that had occurred in his business relations had made
him tired of life. When he finally got to the point
where he could shoot himself he examined his revolver
which he had In his house tor long time and ouud
it loaded all right. Then Lie walked to the looking
glass and arranged II - he could what he was
doing Holding the pistol in his right hand he fred
six shots his head and the last into his throat
just below the chin. Every ono OF the six shots struck
his head as he held the pistol pressed against II. But
as the pistol held at an angle, five of the balls
poughed through the scalp Three OF them continued
theI and struck the ceiling. The other two
shots could not be found In the room. The last shot
that he rod at his head struck him in the back Of the
head To inhict this wound he held the pistol above
his head aud fired downward. Theu he shot himself
in the throat and there being more ammunition hs
staggered to chair and sat down leaving trail Of
blood behind
DR. Mitchell at the hospital examined the skull and
fonnd II compound depressed fracture on the top Tho
patient slowly sinking and the left side was be-
coming paral y1ed Tho wound In the throat
producing severe spasms OF the trachea. Coroner
Levy sent foI to take al m0rtem statement
but before he arrival the Dntcnts condition Indicated
that nothing but hsoic treatment could save h's liie
10 taken to tho operating room and put under
the influence Of ether His hair CIT oil and
large Hap of the scalp Oh the top OF the skull was
malo With a trophinc about three quarters of an
nch IN d,moier hole bored into the skull until
the brain reached. small round button of bone
taken away and the palpating brain WAS ex-
posed The inner table of the skull pressing upon
tho brain aud elevator introduced and by
gentle p1ation thr depressed bone raised and
tho pressure relieved. While this was being doue.
there o spasm In the trachca hnf every
that tho patient would choke to ioith HIS
face turned black. The ether removed from
his and artificial respiration was tried Rnt as it
gave DO relIof the operation oi trephintng
pended and opening made about two inches
long into tho windpipe just above the breast bone.
The tough cartilegos were split open, and thre was
rush Of air intO the lungs Mingled with II WAS q
quantity Of blood and a viocnt coughing set up.
This fortunate as 1t threw out the blood and
saved the patient iron dying from strangunuon. A
curved trschooomy tube was introduced into the
artificial opening below the point OF ~ asn and tho
patients breathing was restored to "a comparatively
normal condition AL the breathing atterward WAS
through tho tube.
When the danger Of immediate death from spasm Of
the gottis had passed. the operation of trcphung was
continued Several small spinters of bone were re-
moved from the brain aud the exposed sur face
carefully washed with an antiseptic solution. Tne
depression found To 10 extensive aud IL required
dollcate work to raise it, But IL ell oac about
au hour and ). half aud then tho head and lhroat
bandagod and the patient taken back his cot.
lie still unconscious from the ether. but thera
an evident Improvement ia the general symptoms.
Coroner Lovy oamc while tho operation wits going
Oh and did nott walt for the patient to become con.
scons t. take his statenen
Nc hillman has fair chance of getting well. Tho
bali Ia his tbrOAt and Is believed to have passed
entirely through tho soft tissue aud Is imbede IN tho
spine ana is exceedingly dang srous. The wounds In
tho head arc -erion., but not necessarily fatal. ns
cano from under the miueuc" OF tho ether quito
strong, though the shock WA great lie uegeci the
doctor to CIV him enough ether to kil him before tho
operation