Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-01
WANTED TO DIE.
CINCINNATI NAN MAKES AN EFFORT 10
TAKE HIS LIRB
Ia Six.ssnth Street Barber Shgp-Hs lnaies Two
Gashss IN His ThrraG With RAzos-
Ths CsrSa

About quarter to eight o'clock yesterday
morning a well-dreSsed but Withholding
stranger came hurriedly into the police Oh
fee at theCity Hall and addressing himself
to Clerk Stanley, desired to know what
he had been arrested for. Mr.. Stanley
told him he was not under arrest, so far as
he knew. and asked who had told him he
was wanted" To this the stranger re-
oil ed that ''those men up street said l
was arrested, and told me to come here. "
The clerk explained to the man that 1t
was all a mistake, and after hanging
around for few moments ina dazed sort
ofa way. the stranger left Ten minutes
later a telephone message came
to the office that a man had
CUT HIS THROAT
on Sixteenth street, near Jacob, and asked
that an officer might come out at once.
Officer Dunlap started, and on the way
met Mr.. Rudolph Gantschi, who had come
TO find an officer. Officer Dunlap made
his way TO Goetze's drug store, at the door
of which he found crowd of people gath
cred around a man who was bleeding
rather profusely from two ugly-looklng
cuts on his neck, almost Immediately be-
meath the chin. At the officers request,
Mr.. Goetze searched the man, finding
nothing in his pockets, however, but
pen-knife. He was then taken to the
CITY Hall, where he proved to be the same
man who had addressed himself to Clerk
STANLEY half an hour before. Officer Jun
kins
DRESSED HIS WOUNDS,
which did not seem to be serious, and the
man, who gave the name Of WE. Hildreth,
of Cincinnati, was taken before Justice
Phillips, who committed him to Jail for five
DAYS, to await further developments.
After leaving the City Hall, at the con-
clusion of his interview with Clerk Shan
lev. Hildreth went ont Sixteenth street
until he came to the barber shop of Ru-
dolph Gantschi, No. 80. The shop was
empty. the proprietor being in the back
room, and Hildreth entered and seized
razor. The proprietor heard tOotstep,
and coming quickly into the room saw
Hildreth in theact of drawing the blade
across his throat. Mr.. Gantschi seized
Hildreth and the two had quite scltfie,
extending across the room into the rear
apartment, and then back and out onto
the sidewalk. Here Hildreth broke away
and ran across the street, where he leaned
up against fence as though
DAZED AND EXHAUSTED.
Quite a crowd had by this time collected,
but Hildreth, still clutching the razor,
braced himselfup, crossed the street toward
the barber shop, threw the razor in the
doorway, and then started eastward along
the sidewalk. endeavoTing to enter each
gateway and doorway he came TO. At
Goetze's drug store, he went in and asked
Mr.. Goethe for a revolver. To the question
Of what was wanted with it, Hildreth re-
piled:
II want to kill myself | can't stand
this sort of thing any longer. Say, havn't
you got gum"
Mr.. Goethe told him he had no pistol,
and Hildreth went out and up the street a
few steps. returning to the door, however,
in time to meet Officer Dunlap, who
PLACED HIM UNDER ARREST.
At the City Hall a farther search Of
Hildreth's clothing brought to light
number of papers showing his residence
TO be Cincinnati and his business a travel
ing advertiser, by means Of signs, for
the Nonotuck Silk Company, OF No. =
West Third Street, Cincinnati, concern
which has mills located at Florence,
Leeds and Haydenville, Mass. There
was also very affectiOnate letter from his
wife, dated Tuesday, in which she stated
that she had heard nothing from him for
week. and was very uneasy abOnt him,
having written repeatedly without re-
ceiving an answer.
About two o'clock in the afternoon
Chief of Police Smith received the follow
ing telegram:
CINCINNATI, o. September -.
Superintendent Police, Wheeling;
Have you w. Z. Hildreth, of this city,
arrested? If so, for what? Is he in trOu-
bile? Answer. PHI. DEITOCH.
Superintendent of Police.
To this Captain Smith replied that
Hildreth was under arrest for attempting
to commit suicide. II is supposed that
Mrs. Hildreth communicated the fears ex-
pressed in her letter to the Cincinnati Po-
lice yesterday morning, hence the teie-
gram to Captain Smith.
Hildreth's wounds are not serious, and
last evening he was resting easily.