The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-28
1T WAS A BIG DOSE
Sixty Grains of Morphine Taken by
Bert Hunter with Suicidal
Intent.
The Doctors Worked over Him for
Hours. but Were Unable TO
Save Him.

iDCit ~ iIulllcl, IL youHS hidh VI ~ VI
- years of age, who was formerly a
miner at Ncihart, is lying dead on a cot
in the county Jail from the elects
of a big dose of morphine which he tool
Thursday morning for the purpose Of
ending his life. There is no doubt of his
suicidal intention and but for the fact
! that he was discovered only "A few mo-
mcnts after taking the ordinarily fated
dose he would have been a dead man
long before.
As Buchan. Sheets and Madison of
Redding were returning from "a fishing
trip yesterday morning Sheets noticed
the PROSTATE form of "A man lying in a
clumb of willows almost opposite the b.
e. NJ. saw mill. lie called his compan-
ions attention to the mar and an in
v%estigation followed which showed con
clusirely that the mar was nearly dead,
while an empty morphine bottle at his
side indicated "a suicidal attempt.
The police were hastily summoned
and the MAJ removed to the county
Jail, where Drs. Longeway, Gelsthorpe
and Sweat were soon at work endeavor-
ing to fan into fame the spark of life
that remained in the mans body. Arti
fetal respiration and the almost contin
ual application of AN clcctri battery, to-
gcther with hypodcrmic injections, were
the means employed but it seemed i'm
possible to arouse the patient from hif
stupor.
Toward evening, however, he began tc
muttcr "A few words and when DIR. Gels
thorpe asked him now much morphine
he had taken he said:
THE whole Il bottle. Paid 81,
bits for it,"
As the bottle contained sixty grains
and four grains are sufficient to kill -;
man ordinarily. it will be seen hat TIT
; doctors had an almost hopeless task il
e~ndeavoring to save the mans life. II
reply to DR.. G~clsthorpe's question
Where did you buy the morphine thu
patient answered:
= "Ncver mind, that's all right" III
then appeared to lose CONSCIOUSNESS
again and it was at one time feared tina
he was dead. His pulse stopped beatin;
and those standing near held thcI
y breath, but he did not dic and at thi
4 writing was thought to be about out o
, danger.
r Hunter is "a young man who has bee
I his own worst enemy. lie was EN-
\ ployed among the mines at Barker am
Neihart until recently and succeeded il
acquiring some stock in paying mines
A short time ago he came to this cit
and began to spend his money rattle
freely. lie became infatuated WIT
"A member of the demi-mond
and soon spent all his none,
lie then sold his mining stool
realizing nearly $1,000, which, howcvc
did not last long. lie went broke AN
was out of work. Of course the wome
who helped him spend his money had n
. more use for him when it was gone. lIe'
tiers found on his person show that Il
has a mother in Vermont and a sister i
Connecticut. The letters also containc
limitations of family troubles, and thi
probably had something to do with eau
ing Hunter to become dcspondcnt an
attempt to take his own life.
Drs. Gclsthorpc and Longeway r.
: manned with him throughout the da
Is and most Of tn" night and at > O'cloc
it was thought he would live. but d
> spite all the efforts of the physician
IS Hunter died at 80 Friday morning.