The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-07-16
BY HIS own HAND.
Judge Warder Takes His
Own Life
A Mind Distracted By Grief Gives
Way to Suicide.
From the Chattanooga Times,

From the Chattanooga Times
Judge James A. Warder has gone to
his God for judgment,
Last night just before IL o'clock on
Lookout Mountain he placed a revol-
in his right ear and sent his soul into
eternity.
Horrible, you will say. Horrible in
deed, and when the news reached the
Times Office shortly after the occur
ance of the deed every face was
blanched.
The shooting occurred at the Stone
cottage. Mrs. Warder, the mother,
and Mrs. Warder, the wife, who were
occupying the cottage with the un-
fortunate man heard aloud report, and
rushing into theroom found the Judge
upon the bed, smoking revolver in
his hand.
The screams of the women aroused
Capt r. P. Shelton, who rooms in the
cottage, and dashing into the room he
found Judge Warder gasping for life,
still clutching the pistol.
Deliberately the unfortunate man
had placed the revolver to his head,
placing the muzzle directly in his ear,
and pulled the trigger.
Think of those women, mother and
Wife
The tears not yet dried upon their
cheeks, their souls in bitter anguish.
And then this!
For comfort let them look to God.
He alone can enter their hearts in this
their hour of anguish.
Since the killing of his son-in-law,
S. M. Fugette, Judge Warder has had
a decline distressing to contemplate.
Broken in spirit, in heart and in mind,
he had become the mere shadow of
himself, a man wrecked so completely
that when his friends met him, they
could hardly suppress tear. He was
but a skeleton OF his former self, and
his giant figure and unkempt appear
ance gave vivid evidence of the fearful
battle raging within, of the great mind
tottering, yet refusing to fall.
At last it has given away.
Remorse, humiliation, grief and
pride broke down the barriers and to
end his life only remained.
Yesterday his dependency was more
marked. Sleep has been almost a
stranger to him for months, and last
night proved no exception. Upon his
bed he tossed haunted by the spectre
of the past, racked with pain, with
deep sorrow, thinking of his blighted
home, the home once happy; the grief
stricken daughter, that child, over
whom he had poured all the love a
father possesses. Right or wrong his
hand had caused it; his hand should
likewise end the life made miserable.
How he secured weapon no one
knows, Possibly it has been his com
panion. His fancy has probably often
painted the end, and his first thought
was the manner in which his life could
be taken
, So much excitement followed the
shooting that it was fully an half hour
later that the news was sent to the
city. Captain Shelton telephoned
q Sharps livery stable, and Lew GILES
pie, who was present, Immediately
mounted horse and rode to Hill City
to notify R, M. Barton,
Capt. Shelton's first message wai
. that Judge Warder was not dead bu
, could not live an hour.
) At this writing, 2:30, nothing fur
. ther has been heard from the noun
y tain.
The cottage occupied by the War
ders is some distance from both hotels
and so far from the Inn that it is prob
= able nothing at all has been hear
/; there of the sad occurrence.
! ga. m.-Judge Warder died at l a
= this morning, living two hours after h
. was shot
c He was attended by DR.. Finley, VIII
a is visiting his brother, G. B. Finley.
t. 1t is just learned that ten days ag'
s. Judge Warder attempted suicide b
Z, bromide, but was frustrated by his si
:" ~ ter, who managed to get the drp
ne away from him.
Mrs. Fugette is now on Lookor