The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-16
SUICIDE OF J. IF. CARTER.
Formerly Agent of New Haven Steamboat Line-Shoots Himselfat UniOnville-Was- Mentally Unbalanced,

Formerly Agent of New Haven Steamboat
 Line-shoots Himself at Unionville-Was
 Mentally Unbalanced.
 J. w. Carter of 283 Sherman avenue, this city, formerly the New Haven
 agent of the New Haven Steamboat
 company, committed suicide in the
 roadway between the public school and
 the town hall at Unionville sometime
 Sunday night, about o'clock, it is be- lieved. He went from Hartford to Mer-
 iden on Saturday. and then came to
 Unionville on the suburban train Sun
 day morning. He visited the office of
 the Suburban Railway company and
 attended service at Christ church Sum
 day evening. At about o'clock Henry Hart of the firm of A. s. Hart x Son,
 and Samuel F'risbie heard a single shot. | This was undoubtedly the one fired by l Carter, as a 32-calibre Hotchkiss &
 Allen revolver was found by his side. | The body was discovered about o'clock yesterday by F. M. Drigg, an under- | taker and janitor of the public school. The body had a bullet wound in the
 side and lay near fence, and the blood oozed from the ears and nose.
 | Drigg could not recognize the man
 and notified the authorities. The dep
 uty coroner was summoned and noti-
 fled Dr. Edgerton, the medical examin- CT. He made an investigation of the suicides effects and found a pocketbook containing an old fashioned 25-cent C., ,,p keys and a communication ticket on the Fair Haven and Westville Street Rail- way company. On the keys and com-
 mutation ticket was the name, John w. | Carter About o'clock, Thornton Brooks, an employe of the Upson Nut company, viewed the remains and iden- 1 tified the body as that of ex-Agent Car l ter of New Haven. His three brothers,
 Edward Carter of New Hartford, Allen Carter of Plainville, and Frank Carter of Hartford, were notified. Edward Carter came here at once and identified the body as that of his brother John.
 Edward said his brother had been out of employment for some time, and his mind had become unbalanced by worry. He had acted strangely for year, and in the opinion of his brother was in- sane when he fired the shot which ended his life.
 Among the letters found in his pocket was one written by himself in which he stated that the report in a Hartford Sunday paper that he was intoxicated
 was correct. He explined, however, that he was under the influence of wor- phine and not liquor. He said he had taken the morphine to quiet his nerves.
 MT Carter was about fifty years of age. MT. Carter's services with the steamboat company terminated a year ago last December and as he did not find other employment he became very Respondent. While on visit to his brother in Plainvtlle he tried to commit suicide by taking morphine. He was discovered in his room in a profound state of stupor and physician was summoned. Prompt work by the doctor saved his life. After this experience Carter expressed great sorrow for his rash act and when the summer excur- sion season opened he obtained employ ment as agent for MT. Plant of Bran ford in running the steamer Margaret to Pico park and other places on the east shore. He seemed to have recover ed his usual cheerfulness and health. But when the season closed MT. Carter was again out of position and he had had little to do this winter, which fact probably brought his mind back into the same state as when he first attempted to kill himself
 He was born in Pleasant Valley and came to this city about twenty-nine years ago as bill clerk for the Consoli- | dated road. After working for the road for over a year he went over to the steamboat company and was for twen- ty-five years their cashier and for two | years their agent. He married daugh- i ter of George Lego, who was a govern ment contractor in this city during war | times. His wife and three daughters | survive him. Their home is at 283 Sher- | man avenue.
 His is not the first tragic death that | has befallen an employe of the steam boat company. Mir. Brooks, who was | agent of the company when MT. Carter | first went there as cashier, was killed | by a runaway horse on Chapel street, l corner of State street, while standing | on the sidewalk talking with a friend, | and Wallace B. Miller. who succeeded | MT. Carter as agent, died suddenly at | his home in about twenty days after he assumed his position there.
 MT. Carter told a friend in town here a few days ago that he might accept the position of manager of the Pico park excursions again this summer, but had not fully decided in regard to it. The news of his death causes much regret among the very many friends of the de- ceased here.
 IN TRINITY e. [. CHURCT