The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-27

beside the bed. Under his heaQ ne had placed
a folded comforter aad two pillows Over
the dead mans face was paper box about
s inches square and inches deep. It was
half filed With cotton batting and was held
in iTs place by a string which passed around
the box and was tied in a knot at the back
of his head. Beside the body was q pint
bottle Of chloroform about half full, showing
that the suicide had saturated the cotton
with the drug, tied the box across his mouth
and nostrils and had passed into the un-
known.
a PHILADELPHIAN's GEErLEMANLY MODE.
In the summer of 1880 Samuel A. Rogers
of Philadelphia" registered at the Belmont
hotel, on Fulton street, In this city. He
ordered bottle of wine sent to his room,
paid for 1t, drank IL and blew out his
brains He had determined to Idle like
gentleman"
In the summer Of 1881 William Luper of
Bradford, Pa, and a boarder in Green's
hotel in that place. had an experience that
he never forgot. When Luper retired he
found q stranger in his bed, but, imagining
that the hotel was overcrowded. he said
nothing about the intrusion, but uudressed
and went to bed. In the morning, when
Luper tried to awaken the strange room
mate, the man didn't move. He was dead.
A laudanum bottle by bis side told the tale.
He was Oliver l.. Jessup of Dundee, Yates
county, this state. In a letter he gave as
reason for terminating his existence that
che was dried-up old bachelor !" and that
there was "a great deaf of crookedness
about our lives.ni
Among the other queer causes for suicide
was that of the once well-known DIR. Nc
Creary of Louisville. KY. The doctor killed
himself because 'his appetite for liquor was
incurable." He thought that it was easier
to take poison than to stop drinking. The
Rev. Jacob Milford of Greenvlle, N. j. i,
took his owa life for the same reason.
just after President Garfield was assassi-
mated Prof. Louis Walter OF ST. Louis, COM
mitted suicide in novel way. He blew
himself TO pieces with a nitro-glycerine car
fridge. He left as reason the statement
that the assassination Of President Garfield
would hurt his Fourth of July business
Walter was q manufacturer Of fireworks
and had large stock on hand DR.. Barnum
at about the same time committed suicide In
Schoolcrafs, s. @. He worried over the
anticipated result of troublesome disease,
laid himself on his table and shot himself In
the left breast. Col. Chapman of San Saba,
Tex, killed himself, because he was afraid
he was going to have the humps; and Capt.
Bennett of Denton, Ala, did likewise be-
cause his relatives objected to his marrying
servant girl. John Jennings, or "McJen-
nings, !" as he was generally known, Of Indian
Creek. Va, pushed his head against busy
circular saw until it was cut 10 two, and John
Brandt Of Cohoes filed his pockets with lead
and bricks, tied boulder to his head and
lay down, drowning himself In three feet of
water.
SHE DIED ''LIKE A LADY,"
Another queer case was that of man
named Minis, who was prisoner in the
GreenviIle Is. O. jail. Minis showed his old
felt hat down his throat aud thus choked
himself to death. Josie Langelet died 'like
lady" Sue resided in st. Louis, and be-
fore sbuffling off the coil she fixed up her
hair beoomingly and nicely dressed herself
in her Sunday best. arranged the room fur
niture effectively, and then, seating herself
upon lounge, pulled the trigger Of her little
revolver, aud-weli, that was the last of her
George Virgins of Port Washington, L. l. ,
took particular pains to successfully carry
out his intentions. He tied double barreled
gun to a fence. attached strings to the trig-
gers, walked away few feet, faced the
gun, pulled the strings and blew himself
into eternity.
In the winter of 1881 Charles Jessup
walked into a Boston barber shop, took a
bottle of poison from a shelf, remarked that
he was tired Of life and drank the contents
of the bottle. On several previous occasions
he had seen the bottle and knew what it con-
tanned.
At No. 1856 Forsyth street. in this city, in
May, 1891, Inventor w. G.. Kruegor blew
his brains out because he hadn't money
enough to complete the invention of flying
machine. Before retiring he had said that
$1,000 would make him happy, and that
without it he didn't care to live. Money
difficulties were also the cause of the self.
destruction OF Juan Mariner He hanged
himself from nail in his room at Fourth
avenue and Eleventh street. On the morn
ing OF Isis death a lottery ticket found on
his person drew SIS 900. His landlady
drew the money and disappeared. She was
after ward found and compelled to give up
the greater portion of the amount to rela-
tives OK the young man.
In 1880 all sChicago was startled by the
announcement Of the suicide or the Misses
Anna and Elizabeth Trowbridge, two we'll
to-do sisters who lived in retirement. They
hanged themselves by means OF a rope
thrown over the parlor door. Their moth
er's death was supposed to have been the
cause OF suicide. Another sister, Mona, had
promised to accompany them on their Jour-
ney to unknown land, but could not sum-
mon sufficient courage.
THE INSURANCE FEATURE.
The case of Capt. Colvocorssses Of Litch-
field, Conn, also had an insurance end d.
The captain was a retired officer Of the
United States army, aud had insured bis
life for 100000 in several companies. He
was found on the street at Bridgeport,
Conn. He had been shot. The pistol was
found lying on the opposite side of the
street from where the body was found, and
the captains unsheathed sword case was by
his side. The insurance companies fought
the matter and a compromise was effected.
A notable case of the same kind was that
in which Col. Walton Dwight of Bingham
ton, N. ", was the principal. Col Dwight
insured his life for $3.50 900 and sought to
double 1t. He had applied TO nearly every
insurance company of prominence In this
country. Brooklyn and New York COM
panies were his favorites In September,
1878, it was announced that Dwight was
dying, and the insurance companies notified
their agents to investigate, as Dwight had
come to be known as 1.-THE life in
surauce flend." To them Dwight advised
an autopsy after his death. A bakers dozen
of the disciples of Esculapius we're pres
ent at the autopsy, and of course there was
large batch of disagreements. The COM
panies claimed that, although Col. Dwight
may not have directly committed suicide,
he was sioklY and had taken every means
carried through regular stages up to the
court of appeals, and the companies had to
walk up and settle
There arc innumerable other instances of
strange suicides and queer CAUSES for the
same on record, but the above will suffice TO
prove or disprove the statements made in
the first part Of this screed that suicide is a
disease.
7 One In seven of all
1911 deaths comes from