The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-13
SOME REMARKABLE SUICIDES.
Strange and Ingenious Plans Adopted
by Persons Bent on SelfDestruc-
From the Ne,o York Graphic.

From the Neto York Graphic.
There was no particular reason for it,
but the little group that held down one
of the Undiscovered seats in st. James
last night, after discussing politics and
religion and art and science, came around
to the gloomy subject of self-destruction.
One gentleman, who had taken no inter-
est whatever either in Mr.. Blaine's letter or
in PresbyteriaAism became ami mated at
once when the conversation turned on sui
cides, and in few moments he was plnng-
ing into the subject with as much eagernesS
and pleasure, as an undertaken would
evince in directing the funerals of an entire
family.
u have made strange and unusual sui
cides study for years" he said, land be
lieve l can, without referring to my scrap
book, tell of more extraordinary cases
from memory than any other man in the
party.
"You all probably remember" he con
tinued, 1.-THE ingenuity exhibited by that
young man in Connecticut few years ago
VINO Deheaded himself. 1t is one of the
most remarkable cases in my collection.
The lad was men ally unbalanced, but
possessed of an inventive brain, which
took a horrible form after melancholis
set In, and made him determine to end his
life.
HE rugged up guillotine, using sharp.
bladed broadax for the knife, which he
placed between two uprights, and weighted
It on top with 800 pounds of scrap-ifon.
To the top of the ak 0he broad side he at
tached a rope, which ran up to the roof of
the barn, through pulley, and down to the
floor, where it was made fast, holding the
ak in place about seven feet from the base
of the uprights A water-can was placed
within eight inches of this rope, and be-
tween upri. hts, and delicately balanced. In
the ..ozzie of the can he put lighted candle,
and under the noZZ.e, and fastened TO it, d
tWo-pound weigh He bored small hole
ia the bottom OF the can. aud, after filing
it with water tied sponge saturated with
chloroform under bis nose, and put his neck
under the ak In about fifteen minutes the
water had run out of the can, which tilted
forward, owing to the weight under the
nozzle, and the flame of the candle touched
the rope.
SIN tlve minutes more the rope was burned
throu h, the strands parted, AID down
crashed the ak. he insensible victim was
instantly beheaded.
"a case of great deliberation was that of
a German hoenaker in Philadelphia who
AIRED his breast, located his heart by the
pulsation, and placed the handle of an
awl against he wall, slowly pressed his
BODY against the point until the instru-
IlSuU OAO NhNeAA Vi eoSNi SAAN StAuoSN
death.
Marie Bonhenr, a Frenchwoman, in
New Orleans, drowned herself IL sma Ii
pail of water in 1876. She p aced the bucket
on the floor, and str, itching herself face
downward on bed put her head in the water
nd remained in that position until she
died.
son Black Friday broker crossed in an
East river ferry boat. When iii mid-chan-
ba fOnk FROM IL nOcKaf two grains of
strychnine, which he swallowe |. Then he
mounted the rail, and as he jumped into the
river he blew his brains out with a bulldog
revolver
1T is a very rare thing to hear Of a
negro committing suicide, but down in
Charleston a mul ito XXI led himself by
eating nearly half a pound of powdered
glass.
up in the oil country in Pennsylvania
an investor VINO had lost all he posses ed in
trying to start laying well became de
spondent and he ernlnei to esd himself eff
fectual Y. He got six POUND can Of nitro
glycerine and pounded it with a hammer.
There wasn't elought Of him found to put
in pint IN assure.
"A crazy farmer in South Carolina had
a terribly vicious horse, and conceived the
novel idea of using the animal as tn agent
for his selt-destruction. He lay down in
che stall and was kicked to death in ten
minutes.
Emil Schoer, prospector in the Black
Hills, became tired Of seini-starvation and
10 gold, and begging ali the money he could
made his way to a zig log mill near Den
YER. He deliberately cut himself in half
with huge buzz saw
"A remarkable case was that Of French
eeronaut MAJ ed Paille, who lefta note with
his affianced, telling her to meet hun at
certain place, rom whence he intenIed TO
make an ascensiC H. She was at the rem
devious, and after kissing her good-by
Pal le cut the ropes of the balloon and
vas soon caring upward. AT an eleva-
ton of 1000 feet be was seen 10 Chamber
over the edge Of the basket and kiss is
hand TO the C ovid. A momeats pause
and he leaped ont and was dasaed to
pieces.
You all remember Linyg, the anar-
chist, who blew the top of his head off with
a Ii hted bomb, which be placed in his
mou h, and tue English officer thrust REQ
hot poker into his stomach ami
"Enoughm exclaimed one OF the party;
81 doa't want to see your scrap-book. Let
US hcker.n