Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-03-05
SUICIDE NOT AN EASY THING.
The Curious Case OF NJ. August Tailor.
Dependent Paris Husband.


NJ. August Tailor of Rue Saint Jaques,
Paris, lost his wife, to whom he was de
votedly attached Although he was only
3S years old, a great despair and disgust
with life laid hold of him. He decided
that he had enough of living and that it
was high time for him to put an end to ii.
But it seems that this thing of dying;s
not so easy as one might think. For in
the course of his endeavors to put himself
out of the world Mr.. Tailor established
Il record for futile attempts at suicide
winch will not soon be broken. After
casting about for the best method both
rs to certainty and painlessness, Mr.. Tai
ior decided upon strangulation. He got
him stout rope, hied him to his apart
ment, and proceeded to hang himself. For
moment OF so everything went well, and
the things of this world faded from his
view. But just moment too soon the
rope broke, Mr. Tailor fell to the floor
with a bang, and was resuscitated by his
neghbor of the next apartment. Mr.
Tailor was profuse in apologies and re-
grets. and his neighbor left him. feeling
sure that the suicide would try no more
But the next day Mr.. Tailor was at it
again. He had lost confidence in stran-
gulation. He determined to fall back on
that old and well established Partisan
method, asphyxiation. He bought some
charcoal, shut every door and window OF
his apartment, set the charcoal aburnng
and lay down upon the bed where his
wife had died. He had sunk into
eI,, Ear Il ol, L.. l..
ening, when the same neighbor, who had
an unpleasantly alert nose, smeled out
the fumes. broke in the door, and once
more brought Mr.. Tailor to this evil
world.
Mr. Tailor thnn!ied his neighbor even
more profusely tlan before 1t is not
known by what means he persuaded this
neighbor that he was sincere. But after
staying with him "a hours the neighbor
left him in a cheerful and hopeful frame
of mind. But this jollity was mere de-
ceit, for Mr.. Tailor only waited "a hours
before sticking knife into himself twice.
lie lost consciousness and fell from the
lounge where he was lying to the floor
The neighbor, whose ears were trained to
that sort of noises, was instantly in the
apartment. Mr.. Tailor was covered
with blood, which was flowing from two
wounds in the region of the heart. An
ambulance was called and Mr. Talon
was soon in the hospital
The wounds turned out not fatal. and
in something like week troublesome
Mr. Tailor was back in his old apart
ment, trifle pale and good deal thin
ner, but just as much alive as though he
had not resolved to die
Two days afterward his neighbor was
much incensed to hear groans as of one
in intense pain coming from Mr.. Talloir'5
direction. He rushed in, and Mr.. Tailor
explained that he had just taken a dose
of phosphorus, which was making him
groan in spite of his desire to die quietly.
The neighbor had doctorin at once, and
once more Mr.. Tailor came around He
had suffered SO intensely, and was so
evidently disgusted with the refusal of
death to have him at any cost, that every
body felt that it was safe to leave him
alone.
1t took him few days to get strength
to leave his bed, and then he spent few
days in gaining strength to walk On
September "a he went out and bought a
compound of chloroform and bichloride
of mercury He locked himself in his
apartment and, stretching himself out,
took this last and final road to death.
They found him the next morning dead
with an expression of great content upon
his face. He had batfied his neighbor
and had forced himself upon unwilling
death. 1t is rarely that person rescued
from first attempt at suicide is not well
content to await the action of natural
causes. This man, who was person of
education and intelligence, seems to have
been perfectly sane. He evidently had
the genuine fixed determination to deny
the will to live.