Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-13
Mr.. D. c. Logan a Chris
tian suicides in
Lexington.


distance on his premises, and having
staid so long that IT attracted the atten-
ton of his family, his wife went out and
found him with a ball in his brain, that
corresponded with calibre of his pistol
that lay beside him.
lie had large life insurance, $4,000, of
which was an accident policy, that was
forfeited in case of suicide.
The average Lexington newspaper
does not hesitate to lie when it can
make anything by it, and when these
papers saw that they could make more
money by helping the Logans who rep
resented considerable money, than they
did by telling the truth that would help
q Life Insurance company, that does not
subscribe for Lexington newspapers, they
to make 1t appear that Mr.. Logan had
been murdered by somebody when there
was no reason to believe anything OF the
kind. was told, by the Chief of Police,
a reliable gentleman who understands
his business, and also by Mr.. Logan's
intimate friend, who was by far the most
competent witness, but who wants his
name Withheld, that they believed 1t was
a suicide.
Mr.. Logan was from Dog Fennell, and
know more about him and his antece-
dents than all the editors in Lexington
put together, and have not the remot-
est doubt that it was a case Of suicide.
do not believe in eulogizing people
simply because they are dead. l have
the deepest sympathy for his bereaved
friends, many of whom are my friends.
Mr.. Logan intellectually and morally,
was fair specimen of our fair average
society. He was quiet, sober, business
man, with whom dealt, and I do not
remember to have ever heard anybody
say anything against him. nor has he, so
far as 1 know, in any way distinguished
himself as humanitarian.
He was a member, in full fellowship,
in the Christian church.
Under these circumstances, the indi-
cations are that he has suicided under
the influence of business depression.
1t is not only the duty of all editors to
talk plainly about these matters. but it
Is more than ordinarily my duty to do
so, as I make specially of discussing
such matters.
agree with some of Ingersoll's recent
utterances that there are times when it
Is not only mans right to destroy his
own life, but when 1t is his duty to do
SO.
For two years after the series of out
RACES against my rights that eliminated
in my being put in Jail by the Christian
church at Paris, was on the verge of
what would have been called insanity
had voluntarily killed myself; and I
went carefully, and as dispassionately as
a man can under the circumstances, over
the whole argument for and against sui
eide, and now think that l would have
killed myself, except for my duty to my
family and to my friends, and for the
hope that might live, as l have done,
to expose the injustice of the church and
the religion of which was the victim. !.
Except for these considerations 1t
would have been the height of folly for
me to have lived, for, even with these
thoughts to encourage me to live, life
was burden to me, So deep had these
religious fanatics cut into my pride, and
crushed my spirit, when believed that
by Just laying handkerchief saturated
with chloroform over my face, after hav-
ing taken dose of opium, 1 could sleep
into everlasting rest, and do that which
would make the honest and good of my
'countrymen resent the indignity that
had been done me by Christian bigots
and whisky fends.
/ saved one man from suicide by
drowning, when it took almost my last
breath to do it; and l have gone with
the man who purposed suicide, as far
down into the dark valley and shadow
of death as almost any man could 60 to
come back again, and l do not believe
there is a man in this State who is in
better shape for intelligent sympathy
with the suicide than l am, and while
do not blame Mr. Logan for killing him