Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-09-06
WATERVILLE.
SUICIDE OF F. H. FUTILE.
Hanged Himself in the Police Station
by Suspendcrs, Monday.


mltted suicide Tuesday afternoon, in
this city. after several desperate at
tempts which We're all but fatal. At
about l o'clock, Tuttlc. after having
been locked in the police station for
safe keeping. hanging by the neck by
his suspenders, his body naked and
with life extinct.
| Mr.. little had been possessed of an
insane desire to take his lift. which
caused no little sensation on Main
| street, carly in the morning, and, from
| time to time until the hour of his
death, stories were being told of his
attempts on his life, nearly all of which
turned out to be true, although each
differed from the other in particulars.
At about go o'clock in the morning,
| some men who were coming into the
new block which is being erected on
Main street by Mrs. Anne Pulsifer,
were starteled by seeing him make an
attempt to cut his throat by means OF
| a Jack knife. The blade was dull and
somewhat rusty and several slasheS
were unsucccssfully made before he
could be seized. He then ran to q
brick pile seized brick and attempted
to pound the blade into his thraot from
the outside of his neck. This was but
weak attempt and the man then, with
knife and brick in hand, rushed into
the office of the Waterville Steam
Laundry and calling to the proprietor
c. II. Pulsifer, said:
"Charlie, for Gods sake, cut my
throat.
Mr.. Pulsifer WAS not slow in making
ha a 10 He seized
him by both arms and forced him into
the office of DIR. p. s. Morrill,. The
doctor dressed the wound. finding that
no fatal cash had been made, but that
the wind pipe had been nearly severed.
| Deputy Sheriff Colby Getchell was
summoned and locked the wouldb be
suicide in the police station. giving
instructions to the turnkey to keep an
eye on his man as he was already IN
| a dangerous condition. The regular
| police officers were either absent at
their noon day meals or on street duty
and the work of guarding the men Was
committed to the janitor. George RcnE-
For a space of a half an hour. Mr.. Reny
was compelled to quiet the captive.
who imagined that some one was try
ing to take his life. He asserted that
lie would prefer bleeding or any other
death rather than he filled with bullets.
| Three times the jauitor found him
| black in the face from mis- attempts to
choke himsclf by claSping his hands
| around his neck. At a little before
| O'Clock. however. the noise having sub
sided, Mr. Reny left to attend to "A few
duties. On his return. he opened the
door. and WAS Mortified to find Tuttlc
hanging by his neck, having tied his
suspenders around his neck and to one
Of the bars. He was cut down and
medical aid called. but life WAS cA-
tinCt.
Coroner II. 4. Smell was then sum-
moned and began at once to make pre-
parations for laying out the body. This
done. the relatives of the dead mln liv
| ing in Skowhcgan We're notified by tclc
gram and brother arrived and took
the BODY back to the bcreavcd home or
| the afternoon train.
Mr.. Tuttle was once "A Wcll-knOWn
and prominent business man of SkoW-
hegan, being a son Of the late Chand-
| ior Tuttlc of SkOWhcgan, one of the
| most successful insurance writer's, In
his dly. in the State. For the past 90
years has acted in the capacity of II
| proprietor of the hotel at Readfcld
Corner. He is survived by a mother,
sister and two brothers.