Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-15
WEARY OF LIFE,
Two Men Seek to End Their Earthly
Troubles.

| Troubles
| ONLY ONE WAS SUCCESSFULLY STARTLING DIS
! covERY N SLAUGHTER HOUSE THIS MORNING.
| HOW "BLIyD MIKE ESDED HIS LtFE-AS OLE
| SOLDIERS AIT EMP1 TO KILL HIMSELF.
Two men, tired Of life, attempted to end
| their earthly troubles last night. One of them
succeeded. but the other is still living although
he may die from the effects of a dose of poison.
One was Michael Msur and death resulted from
strangulation, caused by his hanging himself
while the other was r. d. Boyd, all applicant
for pension, whose rash ACT was the result Of
a fear Of starvation.
Michael Maur was a German, sixty years
old, and was a butcher by trade nd had worked
Tor CARL Bros. for more than twenty years. He
had lived in Mr. CarIl's house, No. 923 eth
street northeast.
The old man had been blind for about
seventeen years. He was a general favorite
| among the people in the neighborhood where
, he lived, and he was known to them as blind
Mike"
The unfortunate old man know every foot of
the ground about the CARL residence, SO that
| his intirmity did not prevent his going about
the neighborhoo and visiting the neighbors
| and attending to his business.
Yesterday Mike attended market as usual and
In the afternoon he WAS about the neighbor-
hood talking to his friends all OF whom he
called his children.
Shortly after dark he was seen going toward
the slaughter house with calf sling in his
baud. This was the instrument used in taking
his life.
The last seen of him alive was when he went
| to the slaughter house.
FOUND HANGING IN THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
Early this morning his dead body was foun
suspended from a meat hook in one of the
heavy rnfters Death had resulted from
s,rangulation, as there was no fall to break his
neck.
The weight of his body had buried the rope
| In his neck. and one foot was still on the bot
tom of an upturned tub, upon which he stood
TO reach the rafter. Lis features were but
slightly distorted, and his face did not appear
as though his death had been an unusually
painful one.
The body was cut down and placed on the
| hoor to await the arrival of the coroner, and it
was afterward removed to Geier's undertaking
establishment.
Blind Mike" was a steady-going man and
was loved by all who knew him. This morning
the news Of his death spread RAPIDLY through
the neighborhood, and men, women and chill
dren gathered about the slaughter house and
many OF them were moved to tears. The de-
ceased was known to have had considerable
| money that he had saved from his earnings.
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country.
DISCOURAGED PENSION SEEKER.
r. d. Boyd, the other unfortunate man, who
may yet recover, a member of the tenth
Iowa cavalry, and he was wounded in the foot,
and partial paralysis resulted. He had an APP
plicatiOn for a pension pending before the
pension office, but it had not been acted upon
and he was withou. FUNDS. He was here. away
from his home and friends. For some time be
had been rooming at No. 3l3 Pennsylvania
| avenue, and before taking dose of nux vomica
| he wrote letter giving information concerning
papers in his possession and asking that they
be sent to his relatives in New York. The dose
OF the drug was large one, and the pain
| resulting was SO great that his groans and
| screams were heard in all parts of the house.
When it was discovered that he had taken the
drug he was carried to a neighboring drug
| store, where an emetc was administered. The
| sixth precinct patrol wagon called and
Boyd was taken to the Emergency Hospital,
| where DR.. Atkinson worked on him all night.
This morning the patient was much better.
Boyd was formerly connected with the Hughes
Hospital a: keokuk Iowa. and the Iowa Asso-
| citation will probably take care of him.
When the unfortunate man had recovered SO
| as to be able TO talk he told of his having been
unable to get speedy hearing at the pension
| Office, and not having any funds he preferred 4
| quick death to long suffering The physician
thinks he will recover.