The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-03

T1cre was an epidemic OF attempted
suicides in Richmond yesterday. The
ambulance surgeons were kcp; busy &c
storing the victims OF The drugs TO con-
sciousncss-
II won't he alive this time next week,
81 can help il, declared William SAN
ford. as he sat in his cell at First. Sta
zion last night. u am soin, 10 end it all
and then / viii he rid OF it. Yes, tried
10 commit suicide. / drank the ]aridanurn
with that intent. / wanted to die then
End I'm going 10 XIII myself the first
chance get. drink lauoanum and
had a quart bottle OF il with me when !
came here. ] got it in Petersburg before
I left there
why did I take the cattle? Well. be-
cause / didn't care. / WAS crazy. guess.
You sec i didn't care what happened.
Last week my father and mother and
myself had some words made up my
mind 10 20 away. They accused me OF
something ] didn't do, and my father
said ! did do il. just got reckless. [
wanted 10 kill myself then. but didn't
] took the cattle. drove over 10 Richmond
and sold them there
i want 10 be tried in Petersburg. but
] will kill myself If i get a. chance. You
see il i don't. Yes. l stole the cattle
from my uncle, but they blamed me for
CplDS biu iiVt ip x -
my father go; me out of trouble before.
but then j should never have been ar
rested. The other fellows did it and
nothing was done 10 them. No. I'm going
TO kill myself il ] get a chance.
Sanford talked in "A Very rambling
way His main idea seems TO be- his
determination To take his own lie. The
prisoner is still weak and in "A nervous
condition from the effects of whiskev
and laudanum. He will probably be
taken to Petersburg tomorrow for trial
One of the strange features in connec-
ton with Sanfords arrest is that while
Officer HolGcrait was receiving de-
scrintion of the stolen cattle over the
phone he happened to look down into
the street below and saw the missing
cattle driven along the thorouGhfarc on
their way TO the scales. The two head
OF cattle. alleged TO have been stolen
from Il. L. Sanford & Co.. of Petersburg.
were sold to Mr.. j. S. Brauer. of the
First Market. After a warm chase San
ford was found in Jail Alley under the
influence of laudanuln. Dr. ellis. of the
ambulance service. soon brought him
around all right.
TIRED OF LIFE.
Because he was tired of life Mr.
r. l.. Brown, Jr., a time-keeper for
The Richmond Traction Company. went
into a Broad-Street drug store yesterday
morning and purchased twenty-five quar-
ter-Grain tablets of morphine. He repre-
scented himself to b.e a physician.
When out on the street MIR. Brown SWal-
lowed all the tablets and was soon found
in a daZcd condition he was talc! into
a store house at Fifth and Broad Streets
and the ambulance was Sommoned. 1t
quickly responded with DR.. ". Armistead
Oils in charge.
a condition, il was thought advisable
TO take him to The City Hospital Heroic
measures were necessary to save the
young mans life In the afternoon he
was pronounced out of danger.
Mr.. Brown begged DIR. ellis to let him
die He would give no reason for de-
string TO end his life. All he would say
was that he was tired of living. After he
fully reSained consciousness he seemed TO
regret his act
Mr.. Brown is u handsome young man
OF about twenty-five years of age. he is
married.
HELP IN TINE.
The city ambulance was called on West
Broad Street. near the Home for Incur
ables. about O'Clock yesterday afternoon
u treat young white man who had
taken an overdose of laudanunl.
br. ellis, in charge of the ambulance
found his patient in Z critical condi-
ton but he treated him and later he re-
covered sufficiently to go TO his home on
Reservoir Street
The man. whose name is Firth. was