The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-24
O|SGUSTEO WITH LIFE
Giuseppe Cato Throws Himself
Under the Cars.
WAS HORRIBLY MANGLED
The B, A. g. p. Train Cut Him Into a
Hundred Pieces-He Was Out OF
Work No Other Known
Cause for the suicide.

morning people walking along the B.,
A. d. p. track. west Of the Centennial
brewery, noticed a man, evidently an
Italian, walking nervously to and fro
along the track. Some times he would
sit on the embsnkment beside the track.
and then he would get up and walk
along again. John Miller, James Dill
Ion and Henry Willis, who work near
there, noticed him particularly. and
thought he acted strangely. but went to
work without speaking to him.
Along about 3 'cloc a boy named
Lewis Ferris. IA years old, was playing
about the track. and noticed the same
man. There 10 a little cut through
hich the B., A. & p. track runs. a few
hundred feet west OF the Centennial
brewery and Just opposite the old city
dump. The strangely acting man. at
the time the boy observed him. was
seated on one of the banks of this cut,
a bank about three feet above the track.
and he was looking up and down the
rack.
The B., A. & z. passenger train for
Anaconda left the Butte depot at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. A few min
utes afterward IL Numbered past the
California bre into this cut. Lew
is Ferris. the boy, saw the man who had
been sitting on the embankment in the
cut suddenly throw himself down in
front of the train. He seemed to dive
right down head first onto the track,
his abdomen resting on the rear ran and
his head lying just within the outer rail-.
There was not a shrek or an cutlery.
The entire train passed over the mans
~ cir hnanV aA
a score OF pieces of mangled, horrible
flesh.
Pieces OF the body were found scat
tered for 80 yards all along the track.
The body was cut in two at the abdo-
men, and the lower portion, with n
of the legs, was clear up the track. Tn
| other leg. cut off. had not been carried
quite so far. The left arm was cut
off at the elbow. The head had not been
run over, but had been split open and
mashed by the brake rods of the train,
and the brains were scattered along the
track for some distance.
After Coroner Tremblay had arrived
the remains OF the dead man were pick
ed up and taken TO Sherman's undertake
ing rooms. Bloody papers were found
In one of the pockets. One was a pass
port. and the other was a letter scrib-
BLEED in pencil and addressed to no one
in particular. 1t was written In a
fairly good hand. but was poorly COM
posed, and assigned really no reason for
the suicide. The letter is in Italian,
and was translated by Savin Lisa as
follows:
Butte. July 20. 1SsS.-To-day before ~
o'clock will be lead and %contented.
Good-by to all my friends. die with
out any motive. But / am tired of be-
ing prosecuted in this way. My death
has been desired for a long time. Give
my best regards to my mother and all.
Address. GIUSEPPE ATT
(Paragini.)
On the back Of the above is scrawled
in English:
Please look out his paper my resi-
dence is Meaderville. My native town,
born Domegge oil Galore, province
of Bologna. Italia"
Then on another sheet is written the
following:
II desire that my funeral take place
in Butte City. Mont Adde'S now and
lily. At this m OF my writ
ing I am weeping. 1t is my fate Again
addio TO all. and forgive me.
II wish all the good friends who pos
sibly can will accompany me TO the
cemetery as my hour is approaching
The passport vas made out to Cato
on September 81. 1896. at which ume he
1 CHnle % America. vi IA P1SopphN go
age was given as % years. which would
make him about rs now.
Cato was we'll known in Meaderville
where he had lived about a year and q
half, working as a miner. He was sin
gle. and had no relatives in this coun
try closer than a cousin, with whom he
lived. He worked until lately in the
Colusa mine at Meaderville. He los
his position about a week ago, and a
that time declared to a number OF hi;
friends that he was going to kill him
self before long. He was out OF money
but not in want by any means, and while
he considered that he had unjustly los
his position. there seemed no proper
explanation Of his act. He was no
in distress, and had no one d~ependen
on him. but seemed respondent and dis
gusted with life. Those who saw hin
yesterday morning previous to his ter
rible act considered him perfectly sober
The inquest will he held at 10 o'cloci
Tuesday morning. as the train crew ]
TO be absent Monday at Lima.