The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-16
A CORRUGATED GUTTER.
Louisville Mans stangy Description
of His Attempted Suicide.
Cincinnati Enquire.


To look at him sitting his cell
with his intelligent face and almost
classic. features. his hair parted in the
middle and smoothed down after the
fashion of society gentlemen. it was
1 nara 10 reconcile the personality of the
/ TelloW with his surroundings
It was James T. PuIlen of Louisville
a young man who all his life had held
responsible clerical positions in the
Fails City, who was locked I'D. The
story back Of that lookup last night
contains the essence of all the tragedy
| ohat can be crowded into a few brief
hours Of Wretchedness. It was the
kind OF tragedy that pTematureIy fills
m0rgueS, and frOstS the heads of faith
ers and mothers. Last night he walk
ed into the Fourth district police sta
ton, and, with all the courtesy of a
chesterfield, asked to be locked uD
stating that he believed he was wanted
Tor having passed two checks for $3.50
each on Druggist Charles TrOxley of
the Falls City. He went on to saw
that he had signed his name to the
checks, knowing that he had no money
I-In the Bank Of Kentucky upon which
the checks were drawn
My sisters, God bless them, will
suffer for this said he to Lieutenant
Rockwell, and then walked into the
cellrOOm. Shortly after ne was trans
ferred TO police headquarters, and was
placed in a cell there. A few minutes
| afterward he was seen.
ITO begin with, I wish TO confess
! that 1 have a streak of saffron in me
as long as the road to Jericho. / dis
covered it last night. Didn't know 1t
was there I'm human desert inside,
and yaller to the core
sion?'
say, don't ask me. I'll give you the
word Of a gentleman in Temporary
eclipse that if there was a girl in nv
| case would ask the Humane society
10 tar, feather and set IRE to me as an
act Of mercy
What are you talking abOut2"
"Oh. you'll find out. Say. I founder
ed around in the river below the Sc
Evansville wall like a vart twenty min
utes, and then quit like dog"
Finding Mr.. PulIen so much interest
ed IN mis- own case. he was more close
ly questioned It soon developed that
Pullen had passed the bogus checks
| for Sl5 to get out Of Louisville for the
express purpose OF ending his life He
| had stopped TWO nights at the Stag ho-
tel, gone from there to the Bristol
/ and from there to the Sedamsville wall
to eVerlastingly drown his troubles
And" ne went On L walked all the
way from the Columbian hotel to Sc
Evansville When / got down there it
was pitch dark, and a scarier place
you never saw. I turned two or three
1ip-fOps getting 10 the water edge
/ There I found lot Of logs which
mistook for a raft, but they were all
slippery and disconnected. I takes
header and struck the bottom. showing
my head in the mud up t0 my ears.
Then / fioundered around trying to
drown, and after that did a lot more Of
laundering trying not to drown. [
grabbed a log. and the thing was like
an eel. When I tried to get upon IL. it
slipped over and over ike a shuttle
cock How long / Wrestled with the
Shiny thing I don't know, but finally
I landed. Then l lay down on the
logs, worn out, and took a long think
all to myself. It then dawned upon me
just what a corrugated gutter I really
was, and the shame of it made me as
hot as a tamale. The reaction soon
came, and I shivered like an aspen.
Then I started walking back. 1 landed
about 10 o'clock last night at a second
hand store on Fifth street, where 7
traded ali my wet and muddy good
clothing from head 70 foot for these
bum ones, and gave SO to boot. Then I
went back to the Columbia hotel, rOOst-
ed over night and tonight gave myself
up"
PuIlen is of good family, and for
many years was a clerk employed by
the I. & y. Railroad company. Lately
he has been keeping books for some to-
bacco house in Louisville. He said he
had been employed by the Ohio Falls
that he had worked for this company.
He has been drinking hard for a long
time. and ascribes his downfall to this
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