The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-10-05
PARKER WAS TIRED OF LIFE
SO HE SHOT HIMSELF WITH 4 FIVE B4RRELLED REVOLYER.

Was in Love With His Landlady-Thc
 Not Yet Been Extracted-Parker Has
 Been Drinking Heavily $. nee Sunday.
 Milton Parker, a colored barber, thir- ty-five years old. Is at the hospital suf- fering from a dangerous wound in- fiIcted by himself with a five chamber 32-calibre American bulldog revolver At the hospital last night 1t was stated the wound, while dangerous. was not necessarily fatal and that unless blood poisoning set in. Parker had slight chance of recovery.
 The rash act was committed about 2 o'clock, but his situation was not dis covered until early last evening. While Officer Dargen was patrolling his beat about 8:30 o'clock, colored man, who gave his name as Osborn, approached him and told him that man had shot himself in his room in the lodging house kept by Mrs. Rose E. Morris at the corner of Wooster street and Prindle Alley. The officer hastened to the scene and found Parker covered with blood lying on a bed grooming. At the foot of the bed was the weapon with which the act had been committed. About three inches above the navel was an ugly wound, from which the blood was flowing, while the bed clothing was sat urated with blood.
 When asked what caused him to at tempt to take his own life, Parker re- piled that 1t was on account of a woman, and when pressed still farther said: T was engaged to my landlady, Mrs. Morris, and we'll that's all have to say except to have you notify my friend Newton of Il Eaton street."
 Mrs. Morris, who is negress. said, when told what Parker had said: Well, all know about the case is that one day in a joking way I told him that I would marry him when there were thirty-two days in the month. Since that time he has repeatedly asked me to marry him. He has been drinking heavily since Sunday and I told him that If he continued to do so he would have to leave the house. I believe that he shot himself while more or less under the influence of drink"
 As soon as Officer Dargen perceived the nature of the case, he called in Patrolmen Powers and Doherty. Police Surgeon Gaynor was also notified and ordered Parker's immediate removal to the hospital. The hospital ambulance was summoned and the wounded man taken to that institution, but up to midnight the ball had not been ex- traeted. It is thought that Parker did not shoot himself as early as 2 o'clock, as had he done so in all proba- bility he would have bled to death be- fore he was discovered The revolver is now in the hands of the police. All five chambers were loaded at the time the deed was committed.
 Mrs. Morris says that Parker shot himself while she was away from home During the afternoon she had been engaged in doing some cleaning at the First Baptist church and did not re- turn until after z o'clock. When she en- tered the house she heard groans eman- ating from Parker's room, but did not think anything of them until they had continued for about an hour when the groans continuing, she had Patrolman Dargen notified. Mrs. Morris is a widow, her husband having died last January. As far as could be learned Parker has no relatives in this city.