Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-26


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 ne street who had heard the skot and saw the commotion, rushed upstairs to learn what caused the tumult. A large crowd, numbering several hundred, soon gathered of the building.
 Officers Phelps and Tripp were near the spot at the time of the shooting and both ot them heard the pistol report. They immedi- ately hastened to the place where the bleed- ing man lay.
 He was conscious of everything about him. When he first fell he cried out, s'Oh, I am shot. am shot!" but when the officers arriv- ed and questioned him he said that he want- ed to kill himself and was sorry that he had not succeeded.
 The police ambulance was telephoned for by Officer Tripp, who went to Brooks hat store and the message was sent from there to the police office for an ambulance to be sent to the free library, but in the excitement the message was misunderstood at the office and the police wagon was sent up to Library street back of the colleges. No occasion for it's use being found there after diligent inquiry, the wagon returned to headquar- ters, where the right place was ascertained On arrival of the wagon 8 half hour had elapsed, during which time the police off cers had been busiIy engaged holding the in jured man, who frantically begged them to give him another chance to kill himself There being no time to spare to get the am bulance, as the man appeared to be dying, the officers carried the man through the surging crowds and put him into the wagon and con- veyed him to the hospital. On the way there the officers obtained few particulars from the patient as to his identity. The wounded man was thirty-five years of age about medium height, fairly well dressed. His hair was dark and small moustache was few shades lighter. He had evidently pre- pared himself for the desperate deed, for his collar and necktie were found in his pocket He seemed to be aware of everything tha, was happening, and when being taken to the wagon asked Officer Tripp if he had seen a pencil which he had dropped from his poek At the hospital Dr. Townsend made an ex- animation of the wound. He said that it was not very dangerous and immediately probed for the bullet It had not entered the brain, but had glanced backward and upward from direct course, lying buried and fsttened against the bones of the skull about two inches from the point where it entered. Il was extracted and Dr. Townsend thinks that the patient will recover from the wound ir about two weeks.
 The man was not willing to talk of his condition or discuss the circumstances which lea nm 10 CQe Oe6Q or SelI-oe6trucClOn. de said that his name was John F. Bond, ot Boston. He was printer and came to this city about two weeks ago in search of work. He has 6 wife and children living in Boston. His search for employment in New Haven had been without success, and last evening, with but three cents in his pocket, and the dismal clouds and despair of lowering future star | ing him in the face at ever turn, he had wan dered into the public library, where, after g ! few moments of gloomy deliberation, the ! desperate deed was done.
 He was addicted to the morphine habit and his nerves were completely unstrung al ! the time when he determined upon death | It was doubtless owing to this, in great de. ! gree, that he made the reckless attempt al | suicide. In one of his pockets was found { | small package of morphine and in another ! were several bullets. The pistol which hs used was an English bull dog," carrying 38-calibre bullets. It is at the police office When Officer Phelps removed the mans hal at the public library cloud of smoke caused | by the pistol shot, escaped from it. The assistant at the library said that last night was the irst time he had ever seen the mar ! in the library.