Wichita eagle., 1888-07-20
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
George Bowers Axe Lsudanum and Still Lies
In Critical Condition.

In = Critical Condition
Yesterday quarter before II O'Clock
George Bowers, a butcher in the employ
| of Busch s. Grover, took fifteen grains OF
morphine and is at this writing lying IN
critical condition at his home, No. 80
North Market street.
As near as could be learned domestic in
felicity as well as drink lead him TO make
| the attempt at self-deStruction. He and
his wife have not for some :lme been Nv
ing happily together, the neighbors SAYING
they had frequent broIls and family wars
Last evening Mrs. Bowers left the house
without telling him where she was going
He in some way found out that she had
gone TO the office of a physician IN the
Heiserman- Myers block and followed her
there. He waited outside for some time
and at last growing impatient broke into
the room, drove the physician at the point
of mis- revolver out on the roof OF an ad-
joining building and took his wife home
Mrs. Bowers herself gives this as the
version of the affair: Il and another woman
| living near here went TO lawyers
Office on business, it was she who wanted
TO see him on some matter connected with
her child While we were in there this
doctor came and invited Us into his room
to drink some beer we went, were dScoy-
cred by my husband who had evidently
been informed OF my being there by one
of his friends; was surprised and after
some words hurried away home. On my
| way home told him that cared more
for this doctor than for him. This seemed
to almost craze him and he lay moaning
I n hnla
! night. In the morning he arose and left
before breakfast. having packed up all his
clothing and tools The next thing that
heard of him, Mr.. Busch came running to
me telling me that he had taken morphine
and was dying They brought him here
and there on the bed he lies"
| Bowers, it seems, had purchased the
deadly poison at some drug
store and then going into
Billy Aliens joint, near the Occidental,
had put it into a glass Of beer, and after
waiting for it to dissolve, drank 1t. He
| then went back to the shop and COM
menced working. As soon AS he COM
menced to feel the effects of the drug he
went around to all the men in the shop,
shook hands and said, i have taken some
thing that will knock me now" In few
| minutes he was taken sick, and after
wards removed to his home. The fact OF
| his having eaten no breakfast and drink
ing the poison as he did, gave il the best
possible opportunity to do Its deadly WORK
Drs. Tilden and Stoner were called, and all
| the day worked hard, at first with little
hope of saving his life, but about o'clock
more favorable symptoms were discerned,
and while at midnight he was still in
critical condition, they thought that he
might yet survive
Mrs. Bowers, TOO. says that he has been
drinking a great deal OF late and had been
worrying considerably over a divorce that
he is endeavoring to secure. He has al
ways been very jealous of her, and she
! thinks has many times unjustly accused
her. His actions, all in all, lead her TO be-
lieve that he IS insane, and that IL was in
a fit OF insanity that he took the drug.
LATER-Atz : o'clock Bowers was still
alive; but the two physicians, Drs. Tilden
and Stoner did not feel certain that he
would recover.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT.
| Night before last a young man who has
until recently been keeping Joint on East
Douglas, attempted TO commit suicide at
one OF the dives corner of William and
Fifth While his eifot proved unsuccass-
| full, princi Dally through the prompt assis-
taace of the physician, he came near dying
and yesterday lay during part Of the day
in a very critical condition.
The young jointist entered tie Arm
strong place in the afternoon somewhat
intoxicated aud called for his girl. She
I'D cared, but they soon commenced quar-
relling, aud he il fit of desperation,
grabbed from his pocket bottle and swal
lowed its contents. The bottle contained
about grain of snlphate of arr0pia He
had been morphine fiend, having been in
tn. habit of taking the drug by means Of
hypodermic injections; he had stopped this
and instead was using atroDia in
his ewes. He knew its deaIiy character
and used it, as he afterwards stated, eX-
pectlng to die Immediately from the ef-
fects The doctor labored with him from
9 o'clock till II before he could see the
least hopes of his recovery. With return
ing consciousness he became a raving
maniac, imploring them, begging them 10
kill him and the girl, swearing that "he
would not go TO - without her" The
scene, as told the reportec by an eye wit
ness, must indeed have been desperate
and equal in tragic interest to any thing in
LAssamoir.
The young man has an aged and highly
respected mother living in the south part
of the city and her friends yesterday earn
estly insisted, not so much for the boys
sake as for hers, that his name be sup