The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-01

st. Louis. Dec. 31-Joseph B. Nc
| Cullough, editor of the Globe-Demo-
crat, was found dead on the pavement
in the rear of his residence. No. SS13
West Pine boulevard. at $50. this
morning.
He had evidently jumped from the
window of his room on the third floor
some time between midnight and day
break, and dashed his brains out on
/ the stone tagging of the yard.
At $50 this morning. one of the
stable boys employed by Mrs Manion.
sisterin-law, with whom MIR. Nc
Cullough lived, found the body. The
skull was battered in, and the brains
were scattered about on the tagging.
Mr.. Mccullough was attired in his
night clothes. Mr. Mccullough had
been confined to his room since No
vember 10. with acute asthma. compli-
Gated with nervous depression. as
result of his arduous labors in the re-
cent election.
DR.. c. H. Hughes. his physician. said
this morning:
"Mr. Mccullough was tired of living
and killed himself He gave no premo-
milton of suicide during his illness. +
saw him for a little while last even
ing. He said he could not sleep. and
gave me to understand he wanted me
TO leave him alone. His brain was
affected, but his intellect was all right.
He suffered from profound nervousness
and exhaustion, complicated with re-
curing kidney trouble. The late cam
paign undermined his health"
No writings were found in Mr.. Nc
CullOugh's room exceptiOng his act of
leaving instructions for arrangements
for his funeral.
Joseph B. Mccullough was born in
Dublin, Ireland, in November, 1912. and
when about IL years of age came to
this country in a sailing vessel, work
ing his passage before the mast. Ar
irving in New York in 1858 he was ap-
prenticed to learn the printing business
in the Office of the Freeman'S Journal
Five years later in 1858, he came to
st. Louis, entered the office of the
Christian Advocate as a printer. When
the war broke out he acted as cor
respondent with the CincinnS Il Com
mercial, and this work gained him a
great reputation. Later he acted as
Washington correspondent for that pa
per. In 1858 he became editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer: in 1870 he went to
Chicago and took charge of the Repub-
lican of that city. The great fire of the
following year swept the Republican
out of existence and Mr.. Mccullough
assumed editorial management of the
Missouri Democrat of st. Louis. The
paper was, later on. consolidated with
the Globe and Mr.. Mccullough contin-
ued in charge of the GlObe-Democrat
from that time to the present. He
never married.
Every minute detail surrounding the
tragic death of Mr.. Mccullough has
been developed, and all confirm the
theory of death by suicide. one of the
mental tendencies of the deceased,
known only to a very few, who were
his intimates. was the stoicaI belief
that when life was a burden it
could, in good cOnscientiOusness, be laid
down. 1t is now admitted by his at
tendants that he committed suicide
At 10 o'clock last night he was found
in bed almost asphiXiated by unlighted
gas jets turned on. He was with diff
Guilty revived. His room was exam
ined today. and the jets were again
found turned on. The attempt at gas
suffOcation proved too slow for the de-
termined man, and in desperation, he
leaped from a window. The death of
no citizen in st. Louis within d decade
has caused such a sensation. All classes
wonder al his tragic end, and none
more so than the political opponents
whom he valiantly fought and often
The details of the final
obsequies will be announced tomorrow.