The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-08
HIS TROUBLE ENDED
Thomas W. DAILY Took His Life in
the County Jail.
SENTENCED TO DEER LODGE
He Keenly Felt the Disgrace Into
Which He Had Fallen-The Let
ters to His Friends-He
Was Despondent.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, Nov. 7.-Thomas w. DAILY.
better known as Eugene Stanley. COM
mitted suicide in the county jail to-day
by taking 20 grains of morphine. DAILY
was recently tried and sentenced to the
Deer Lodge penitentiary for the muir
der or Ida Woods in a court room last
spring. He was to have been
taken to Deer Lodge yesterday by
Sheriff Jurgens, but the train was IL
hours late and the matter was post
poned.
This morning at o'clock when the
day jailer went on shift the night jail
er went to bid DAILY goodbye. He dis
covered him unconscious in his cell, ly-
ing with two Bibles under his head.
Medical assistance was at once sum-
moned. Every antidote was given him
without effect and. a galvanic battery
was used on him for eight hours. The
electric current kept life UP till 5
o'clock in the afternoon, when he
breathed his last.
No one knows how DAILY got the NOR
phine, but 1t ds supposed he saved it
from doses of the drug prescribed by
his physician, DIR. N. Salvail. some time
think this possible, however, as he did
not give him many doses of the drug.
Coroner Peasants will hold an inquest
tomorrow at which he will endeavor
to learn where the man got the drug.
Daily had a horror of going to the
penitentiary. He had been moody for
some time, but no one supposed he con-
templated suicide. That he had planned
the rash act for some time is evil
denced by several letters he left. Three
of these, one to his mother in Mount
Morris. Mich. and another to his
brother, z. j. DAILY in Butte and one ITO
DIR. SaIlvail, were written Tuesday
morning. He left the following to DR..
Salvail:
Dear Doctor-Oh, do not condemn
me, doctor, for the crime 1 am about to
commit. l cannot stand the disgrace
| that 1 have went Through. / can never
think of going to the penitentbary. 1t
| breaks my heart to think that / au
| called a murderer. The Sunday night
| you came to see me 1 was feeling so
solitude, but / tried to keep UP my
spirits for sociabiHty's sake. I really
did like you and hope the crime l am
about to commit will not make your
feeling toward me different. l hope
you will say that l am at rest. Whis-
key has been my ruination, and / be-
lieve in my heart that God has called
me. Do not allow any one to modest
my body. 1 have taken morphine, some
got some time ago. I was convicted
of murder and 1 willingly give my life
to pay the penalty. Those letters will
all be placed in your hands. l wish
| you would give my regards to Miller
and Mrs. Phillips and to all others who
wish to inquire. The ring on my finger
1 wish mother to have. 1 bid you a
| farewell forever. We may meet in the
next world. Your sincere friend, T. w
DAILY. My head has been aching all
day. oh, horrible, although 1 speak
| kindly 10 ALL"
The suicide also wrote a letter to w
| B. Martin, the day jailer. 1t was writ
| ten yesterday and reads as follows
"Mr. Martin. jailer-I presume you will
be surprised when you see what re-
| mains of one who has appreciated your
| kindness. / am sorry, Mr. Martin, that
| my trouble has driven me to this, but
l cannot stand it any longer. / believe
/ that God has forgiven me OF my sins
and all want now is to be laid at rest
! I must say 1 have taken from 10 to q
| grains of morphine. You could not
| guess the person. / will die with the
secret. Hoping no one any harm, be-
lieve me your sincere friend. T. w
DAILY"
Ed DAILY, the dead mans brother, ar.
rived from Butte tonight.