St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12
SUICIDE WITH EXPLOSIVES.
The Anarchist Lingg Was Only al
ImitatOr After All.


ImitatOr After All.
The suicide of the anarchist Lingg,
by means of a detOnator exploded in his
mouth, is not the first self-murder of its
kind. The annual report of Col. Majen-
die and his colleagues contains several
instances Of suicide by similar use of
explosives. says the st. James Gazette.
Thus, in 1876, native of Alsace put a
dynamite cartridge in his mouth and
fired it, with the result of blow
ing his head and the upper part
OF his body to pieces. In June
the same year, at Wickham market
in Suffolk, a woman named Solomon,
the wife of an Oil merchant, purchased
a quantity of gunpOwder, and having
made circle of it and placed herself i'm
the midst, she fired the powder. The
experiment was unsuccessful; only
slight Injuries were inflicted upon the
woman. ThereupOn she went to an
clubhouse, and, putting a quantity of
gunpowder into pail, placed herself
over the bucket and applied a match.
severe, but for her purpose were again a
failure. and so she hacked at her throat
with knife. She was found in most
lamentable condition and died next day.
At Nittshill in Scotland. in October of
the same year, miner named Duncan
obtained some dynamite and blasting
fuse and went into the street, where he
placed the dynamite on the ground,
leaned over it and lighted the fnse. At
this moment some boys, attracted by his
unusual attitude, came toward him.
keep back" shouted Duncan, ''fOr
the love of God, or you will be blown
into eternity" The boys stood aloOf;
i'll few moments there was lOnd eX-
pIOslon and Duncan was blown, to
atoms. In September, 1881, a miner at
RuncOrn filled his mouth with gunpow-
der, ignited it with a match and sue
ceeded in blowing the top of his head
Off. An almost identical instance oe-
cured in 1883 at Canterbury, when
waiter named Simmons DESTROYED him.
self by exploding gunpowder in his
mouth.
"A more elaborate application of ex-
plOSiveS to the purpose of suicide and
murder combined was recorded the
same year. At Dunedin, New Zealand,
a clerk named Stephenson, who had
been separated from his wife for some
time on account of drunkenness, met
her in the street and exploded a dyna-
mite cartridge close to her head, his own
AiOOo OCihS pioCCo az
very near to hers. Both were almost
completely blown Of. e. -..,--.s ..t.t
In the year 1884 three suicides of this
sort were recovered. One was COM
mitted in Jnne at Munich by soldier of
the Bavarian field artillery, who had
msconducted himself and wished to
avoid punishment. He loaded a can
non with some gunpowder and
pieces of iron and. placing himself in
front of it, fired it. Another case Oc-
Cured in the Bots de BOulogne the
same month when man blew himself
to pieces by exploding an iron box ca
pable of containing about ten pounds of
gunpOwder. But the most remarkable
case occurred Oh the west coast of
Africa. The king of Falaha being at
tackled by a Mohammedan force, and
finding resistance impossible, he assem-
bled his family and principal officers,
and after addressing them and intimat-
ing his determination never to accept
Mohammedanism and inviting thosewho
did not agree with him to 90 away, he
applied a light to large quantity of
gunpOwder collected for the purpose
and blew the palace and all who were
in it to pieces.