The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-24
SOUGHT DEATH
UNDER 4 DUMMY.
Horrible Suicide Of Jacques Mont.
blanc, n Waiter.
He Imagined That Detectives Were Pursuing
Him, So Threw Himself Under a Train
and Was Horribly Mangled.

Most horrible was the manner in which
Jacques Montblanc, a French waiter, sought
self-destTuction yesterday morning
He threw himself in front of a steam
dummy near Harbor View. When extri-
Gated from under the wheels he was quiy-
ering. sckening mass of broken bones and
mangled flesh Although so terribly man
gIed. be lived three hours before death
ended his fearful suffering.
The train used by the suicide as a means
Of destruction left the junction at Union
street at 10:45 O'clock for the Preside.
After leaving Harbor View Park the motor
engine was going at full speed, when Engj
neer Martin saw a man walking on the
track ahead at point where the line enters
the Preside Reservation. The engineer
blew the whistle loudly and kept the bell
ringing The man looked around and
stepped off the track.
When the engine was directly opposite
him he looked around and threw himself
under the rapidly-moying wheels. In an
instant his flesh and bones we're crushed by
the wheels and the engine ana car passed
over him.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
The engine was at once stopped and train
men and passengers ran back to where the
manged remains of the suicide lay. An eX-
animation revealed to the Mortified specta-
tors that both legs had been crushed and
manglpd from the knees down. The scalp
was torn off, the skull fractured and the
clothes torn 70 shreds Pieces Of flesh were
sJrewn along the rails
As the man stlll showed signs OF life, he
was put on the train and carried 10 the
Preside, where the flow Of blood from the
tRrrih#a WnuuTS was tann0rqrfIV pbnPkpi
The police patrol wagon was summoned
by telephone, and 1t was l o'clock when the
dying man arrived at the City ReceiYing
Hospital After brief consultation the
police surgeons concluded that his lie was
fast eDUing away. lie gr0aned pteousy,
aud everything possible was done TO aileyl-
ate bis agony. His wounds were dressed
and baudaged, but lie sank rapidly and died
fifteen minutes after his arrival at the hos
pital.
MONTBLANC ACTED STRANGELY.
The deceased was 81 years Of age, a waiter
by occupation. and lived in tie lodging
house at 6a Jackson street. He worked in
various saloons aud restaurants, but re-
Gently was out OF employment and without
meaus. Last week he began to act strangely,
and told his friends that he was to
be arrested. When they questioned him
he said that all he knew about
il was that he was being pursued by detec-
tiyes He declared that he was being
bounded by men who wanted him arrested,
although be had done nothing wrong One
uight he accused the occupant OF an adjoin-
ing room Of being detective and kicked in
his door. He acted so strangely and fright
ened other dodgers so much that he was
told to leave the house.
lie packed up his clothes early yesterday
morning. Friends offered him money, but
he declined to accept it. That was the last
seen Of him and his friends think bis mind
4 rkh.F,
the train.
Montbauc left surviving a brother, who
lives in Los Angeles. He was born in Seat,
Lower Pyrenees. France.