Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-24
WANTED TO DIE.
A NAN TAXES A GRAY PILL AND PILES
on THE AGONY TO SCARE HIS WIFE
Finding Re is Not Dead, He Attempts 10 Hang Him
self With The Assistance Of 3 Handkerchief
His Acton Supposed 10 be q Rase

The suicide mania has struck Wheeling
with some force in the last few days, two
attempts having been made by rs many
male citizens TO shuttle off this mortal coll
and wear wings in the sweet bye and bye.
This very laudable manner of relieving
their acquaintance of their obnoxious
presence would be q eOmmendable ACT
upon the part of some people and they
''neyer would be missed, they never
would be missed"
The last attempt at suicide was mace Dy
a man who sawed his throat with a knife,
but failed, so yesterday a Sixth ward
gentleman, to change the programme, at
tempted to take a trip into the dim be-
yond via the poison route-at
least he says he, took poison
and no one ought to know better than he.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning q
well known physician of the South Side
was hastily called upon to save a mans
life. The medical man not being home at
the time a brother practitioner was sum
moned. who found the wOuld-be suicide
living face downward upon a bed and
groaning rs if in great pain, while the
family were half scared to death.
The physician askedthe man who want,
ed to be an angels, what was wrong, and
he replied that he had taken poison. The
doctor made the usual examination which
convinced. him that the fellow had
taken no poison, and he informed
him of his suspicion. This so enraged the
would-be dead man that he jumped up and
threatened to lick the doctor; but the dis
eiple of Esculapius is a man of muscle, al
though small in stature, and hewOuld have
paralyzed the dying man too quick,
which fact that individual seemed to real
ize, and he quoted down. The doctor
then left him to his fate.
Afterwards the other physician called
and found the patient sitting upon the
floor with a handkerchief tied around his
neck, making vain struggles to lift him
self up so that he might hang until he was
dead, dead, dead, instead Of shooting him
self with lead, lead, lead, in a business
like way. He was very red in the face
and was breathing hard, but he didn't
want to die. No; he wasn't built that
way. RumOr says his wife has been threat,
ening to leave him, and his desperate at
tempts at suicide were ruses to scare heI
into the belief that he would die for hel
sake. She might have believed this before
marriage, but she caught on and couldn't
or wouldn't be taken in after \ varied eX
~perience of many years.
The doctor asked the husband what sort
of poison he had taken and where he had
secured it. These questions he refused
to answer, except that he said he had swal'
lowed a gray pill. Why he had taken
gray pill is not known, but it is presumed
that a pill by any other color would have
done as well. However, the doctor gave
him an emetic that would have turned hin
inside ont had not his feet prevented, and
if he ever again takes q gray pill or any
other sort, with the intention of committing
suicide he should take q deadly N and
not risk his life by the slow, painful emetiC
route. After he had given up all he pos
sessed of this worlds goods, the physician
found that he had really not taken any
poison, which confirms the idea that hG
was only attempting to brighten his wifi
and prevent her carrying out her purpose
At last accounts the gentleman had tried
no other method of knocking n party Of
other out of a vote at the coming cam
paign.