Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-20
WAS TIRED OF LFE.
JOHN COYLE, A PRINTER, MADE A TRIPLE
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
Took Laudanun, Opened an Artery, and Went
Three Days Without FOOd-Othsr
Criminal Matters, Yesterday.

Last evening about seven o'clock
John Coyle, compositor, who has been
working in city newspaper offices for a
good while back, the last two or three
months on the REG IsTER, came up to
Officer Jacob Watson, at Market and
Eleventh streets, and asked to be taken
to the City Hall. The man appeared
to be weak and i'll, and in reply to a
question as to what was the matter
with him, he said he had been
In bad health, had not eaten
anything since Friday morning, and
wanted to die, and that he had opened
an artery in his arm with knife AND
drank a bottle of laudanum. He said
he had been rooming at Eleventh and
Main streets, and had remained in his
room from Friday morning until short
time before he met the officer, when he
had gotten piece Of pie and some cof-
fee. The officer took Coyle TO the Of
flee of Justice Ankle, when he was re-
manded to Jail to await an examination
as to his sanity.
At the office of the Justice Coyle
again stated he had attempted to COM
nit suicide, and showed the wound In
his arm, which he said he had made
Friday, with a pen-knife, but which,
last evening, seemed to be healing up
somewhat. BE said visit to his room
would reveal all about his case and why
he made the attempt at self destruction;
and after he had been sent to
Jail the Justice, Officer Wat
son, Waterman Dunlap and a
couple of reporters went to Mrs. Cookies
boarding house at Eleventh and Main,
and were shown to Coyles room. The
apartment had been set TO rights after
Coyle left, the bed made uD, and the
room cleaned generally, but Mrs. Cooke
said the bed clothing was bloody and
there was a large amount OF blood In
the slop-bowl, indicating that after
making the wound CoYle had sat with
his arm over the bowl as long az he
could, and then thrown himself on the
bed. No trace of q laudanum bottle
could be found, but nine empty whisky
bottles were discovered in and upon the
bureau. When questioned about a
letter Mrs. Cooke said she had heard
some of the young men in the house
talking about letter, but she had not
seen it. The officer found an obituary
card on the bureau, stating that Mrs.
Louisa A. Coyle had died March IL,
1892, which would make last Friday, the
date of his attempt on his life, the an
niversary OF her DEATH and threw some
light on his possible motive. Mrs.
Cooke said Coyle had kept his room
locked for three days. Her sister found
the door open Friday and looked In.
but said the man in the room was not
Coyle, the loss of blood, etc, having
made quite O change in him, and the
lady only catching glance at him,
Coyle Immediately locked the door, and
kept it locked until last evening. He
did not eat his meals at the house, and
therefore the fact that his door was
not opened was not noticed as much as
it otherwise would have been.
Last night compositors who knew
Coyle said they had never noticed any
thing peculiar in his demeanor, and did
not know that he ever drank to excess.
His home is at Mansfield, Hancock
county, O., where he is said to be part
owner Of farm.