The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-02
NO Ih0PE IN LIFE.
So vii lam Newly, a Cook, Cuts
| His Throat.
L KNOWN ON The SOUND.
Taken III the Hospital. the Wound Was
Thou sht Not Fatal. but He Died
in Half an Hour.

william Newly, whose name is familiar
to nearIy all Puget sound boatmen. cut his
throat a room at the Merchants hotel
yesterdat afternoon about o'clock, and
died third hours later liz Providence hos
pltal.
Newly was IL years old. a Scotchman by
birth. AM tor many years ran as cook on
various q Gamers. his last trip in that ca.
pacity - ng taken about four years ago,
on the II )rth Pacific, 10 Portland. Since
that tinsy ne has been boarding at the Mer-
chants Itel and a few months ago old
some wot about the place. Meanwhile,
he had fan .en into consumption. and gradu-
ally greWv weaker and more emiciated I'M
til he col ID no longer do any work. He
made aprN ication for admission 10 the ma
rine hospN al. but as he had not been on a
boat for II leirly four years and his appli-
cation Va not in good shape, il was not
fayorahlyN considered. He had already
grown dey oondent on account of his physi-
cal condiI on. and this refusal seemed 10
deepen III gloom He was kindly cared for
at the Ma chants hotel. Recently he ex-
pressed a n wish TO be carried to the county
hospital u nd he had looked forward to the
new yeart as the date for his going there.
Yesterlax& he seemed disappointed that no
one came II r him, and this may have had its
effect On Il is already morbid dependency
In the al -rnooa he went TO his room in
the hotel nd locked himself in. Shortly
after cd )ck the hotel boy knocked at the
door with! ONE beef tea for Newly, but re-
ceived no{ response. He became alarmed
and called a comrade. Together they man
aged to n mber through the transom, and
a ehastIyl sight greeted them. On the bed
Law the nod-besmeared form of the in
valid. viii across his throat a gaping
wound ~ the sad climax of his dark
forebodingN and hopeless brooding over his
condition n Near him a bloody razor lay as
a silent II mess. Officer Brennan was at
once callev the patrol wagon summoned.
Or. PalmN was called. and the bleeding
man was M ken first to police headquarters
and then n Providence hospital.
Or. PalnN mace a careful examination
of the VOL nd and decided that it was not
fatal har1t even dangerous, save for the
loss Of BIOL that had told on Newbys al
ready deplJ "a vitality. The doctor stitched
I'D the VOL i, and Newly laid on a soft
bed and teS led by the gentle hands Of the
Sisters. 81 med 10 feel much better. He
was perfecG " conscious, and to a Post-In-
tellfgencerE eporter he said:
You ASH why attempted so rash an
act. II M be hard for you to imagine,
but when Il ~ Is in my condition life seems
hardly VOL living. / have consumption
and cannot live long at the best. 1 suffer
constantine Then, too. | have been unable
to work. 2 that sort of thing makes a
man feel n
Here his 4 eathihs became little difhcult
and he cl1& ID the conversation by saying,
Come ~ k a little later. when l am
stronger. III / will tell you more"
These NJ re among the last words ne
smoke In II IS than half an hour the feeble
puIse had II made its last beat the wasted
limbs had y rown rigid, and the man who
was tired III life had found repose.