The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-21
The WOuld-be Suicide by Rail
Found Not Badly
Hurt.
He Claims The Deed Was Done
In a Fit of Mental Alb
beratiOn.
He Declines to Give His Name
And is Yet Uninden-
titled.

closet, cut his throat and sprang from
the car window. The absence of any
further details of so straE re.
a tale, and any identity
of the suicide. or any evidence
of search for his body, or of It's being
found, left the story in such shape
rs to be fishy to say the least. although
many of the railroad zen repeated
the same story concerning. IL but none
could give further information.
Yesterday, however, Intelligence
reached the BAzoo which
CLEARS UP THE MYSTERY
to very large degree, and leaves no
grounds for doubt as to the alleged
attempt. The particulars as learned are
as follO.s: On the west bound train was
a passenger OF about 40 years of age,
light build, about 120 pounds weight,
light complexion, light hair and light
mOustache. When he boarded the
train, or what was his destination is
not stated. His peculiar actions
and conduct excited considerable at
tention from both the trim officials
and passengers, finally when the train
reached point about midway be-
tween Holden and Pleasant Hill, and
not far from Strasburg,
the passenger arose and
entering the retiring room closed
and fastened the door behind him. As
he failed to return in a reasonable
time, the porter, who had noticed him,
went to the saloon door, finding it fas-
tened he called, but receiving no an
swer he notified the conductor,
when the door was forced open and
the room was found to be empty and
AN OPEN WINDOW
showed how the inmate had effected an
exit. On the floor was spattered pools of
blood, indicating that the unfortunate
man had done other violence to him.
self than merely jumping from the
window. When the deed had been
done, or how far back it was that the
perilous leap from the train, which
was moving at the rate Of forty miles
an hour, had been made was un-
known, consequently no halt was
made until Pleasant Hill was reached.
There the road officials Sere notified
and the section gang were started
east on a hand car as a searching
party, telegram was also sent to
Holden and another section posse
ordered west from there. There being
no night office at Strasburg no notice
could be sent there. The night was
dark and the two searching parties |
passed slowly along on their errand |
until they met, but neither saw any
thing of the missing passenger. Sun
day morning came and the search was
renewed, the Strasburg section men
also being ordered out to assist, all day
long the hunt was kept up, but no
trace of the missing man, dead or
alive, could be found and the
DIsGUsTED sEARCHERs
returned home almost convinced |
that the whole story was
a hug sell. Monday came but moth
ing new developed until night, when
young man named Mills, who re-
sides two and a half miles east of
Strasburg, and hslf mile from the
railroad, going to bis barn to feed his
horses, was astOnIshed and somewhat
alarmed to find in the NOW the bruis-
ed and bloody form of a human be-
ing. Hastily summoning help Mr..
Mills had the man aroused and con-
veyed to the house, where an exami.
nation revealed three ghast!y knife
wounds on the left side of the neck
and one directly i'm front Of the wind
pipe, evidently made with a pocket
knife. In addition to these injuries,
the face, hands and nearly the entire
body was black and blue AID gashed
with wounds and bruises, evidently
received when he leaped from the
train. When the unfortunate fellow
had recovered sufficiently 10 talk he
those about him by stating
that his injuries were
sELF-INFLICTED,
and he proceeded to detail the affair
as it had already been told by the
train men. When asked for his rea-
son for such deed, he simply said he
was fool and did not know what he {
was doing; that he thought everybody I
in the world was against him, and I
that all the people on the train were
officers trying to arrest him, and in 8
order to escape them he went to the /
closet. cut his throat with his pocket
knife and leaped from the car win
low. After that hc seems to have q
very little idea of his wanderings or I