Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-17

After drinking three ounces of laud-
| anum and cutting his throat with a
small knife, Albert G. Sharp, of SOC
North Second street was found in
/ Riverside cemetery this morning short
~ after S o'clock. After being remov-
ed to an undertake,'s establishment
in an ambulance, supposedly dead, a
movement of the arm showed that life
was not yet extinct. Heart stimulants
and hot applications restored the man
to consciousness shortly after being
removed to his home, and his attend
ing physician says that he has a
chance for recovery.
Otto j. Rubee, a nephew of Superin-
teudent 9. NJ. Rubee, Of Riverside, whe
Is employed about the grounds, found
MIR. Sharp lying in the cemetery, while
he was on his way to attend TO some
work The man was lying near the
receiving vault in the west end of the
cemetery. supposedly aoout twenty or
he cut his throat Evidences OF life
We're apparent and Mf. Ruhee inmed-
lately netified his aunt, who telephon>
ed Sheriff Hutson. asking that he
bring a doctor When the physician
arrived Sharp was still breathing, but
after a brief examination 1t was tbs
physicians opinion that the man could
not survive until he could be removed
TO his home In an ambulance. The am
bulance was called, and before 1t
reached the Sharp home all signs of
life had disappeared, Upon the suppo-
sition that he was dead the body was
taken to the Sinkins undertaking par
iors. Just as the body was about to
be lifted out Mr.. Sharp threw up one
of his arms. He WAS Immediately la
ken to his home, where efforts at re-
suscitation were comm enced. Hot APP
l.liuations for the bouy was cold, as
il in death. and a hypodermic injec-
ton of nitro slcyerine and strychnia,
heart stinulants. brought the man
back TO consciousness, and he CALEB
for drink Of water He also COM
planned of the bandage about his .seck,
being too tight.
Mr. Sharp was evidently very anx-
lous To complete the work of self
destruction. after finding himself out
from under the influence of the dead
~ drug that he undoubtedly swallowed
some time Tuesday night. While this
is merely supposition, 1t is the theory
that is advanced by his physician. and
the officers who were on the ground
shortly after the man was found DR..
a. b. Conaway. who WAS called, thinks
that Mr.. Sharp took the iaudanum at
about o'clock Tuesday evening, and
laid down with the expectation OF
never awakening. Finding himself
alive. after having laid out doors all
night, he thought to finish his work
by thrusting the blade of a small poe
ket knife into his throat.
One theory advanced was that Mr..
Sharp drank the poison and then inn
mediately cut his threat, thinking in
this manner to make sure OF the job.
This Is discredited by The condition of
the blood. which had covered the
ground near where the act had been
committed, but which was not very
heavily clotted Dr. Conway thinks
most of the poison, and Mr.. Sharp
found himself alive, he cut his throat
probably about o'clock this morning.
He surrnises this by the condition of
the blood, which does not appear to
have been exposed to the air longer
than three or four hours. The cash
on the left side of the mans neck is
about two and one-half inches In
length, and two inches deep. The
trachea was severed, and a part of one
of the muscles of the neck had been
cut deeply enough so that both the in.
ternai and external carotid arteries
were laid bare. Neither jugular was
cut, but the hole cut into the trachea
was sufficiently large SO the finger
could enter it. and so that the air, when
The man breathed, blew out freely from
The cash in his neck. The knife, with |
which the last attempt at death hao
been made, was found, with its blade |
still covered with blood, in the mans |
trousers pocket.
Drank Too Much.
The probabilities IRE that Mr. |
Sharp took too much ls.udanum in his |
abort to die. He swallowed all but |
barely teaspoonful OF the contents
If a three ounce bottle. which he pur-
;hased at drug store Tuesday fore
loon at about IL o'clock. The drug
vas ordered charged to his daughter,
Miss Ella Sharp. Had the man drunk
half as much as he did, the probabill-
les are he would never have had to
tut his throat in second attempt to
md his existence.
Leaves Letters to Family.
That Mr.. Sharp expected to die there
3 no doubt. In the pocket of his vest
Jung over little bush near where the
ody was found, and pinned to the
10th, were three letters, one addressed
D his wife, and the other to his two
aughters. These letters were sealed I
nd marked private" They We're de-
vered to the wife and daughters, and
he contents are not given out to the
ublic. Miss Ella Sharp, the elder
aughter of Mr.. Sharp, said to Times
epublican man this morning that the
My cause she could assign for her
,ther's rash act was that he had been
, poor health for about year, suffer-
10 from kidney trouble, Miss Sharp