East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-01-02
Henry Grady SIasheS Throat
From Ear to Ear With Ra-
zor and BIeedS TO Death.
ALSO ATTEMPTS TO TAKE
YOUNG son WITH HIM
Domestic Infclicity Said 10 BE Respon-
sible for Dced-Leaves Note Ma
ligning Wife-Declares He Had
Tried Seven Times TO Build Up
Home and That Wife Had Frustrat-
ed Plans Each Time.
Especial Correspondence

Milton, Jan. 2.-Despondent over
what appeared to him a fruitless ca
reer of SO years and apparently dis
couraged in his attempt to build a
home for his wife and five children,
Henry Grady slashed his throat with
a razor several times, at his home
five miles above Milton at 10 O'clock
yesterday morning, completely sever
ing the two outer juglar veins and
making a ghastly gap in his throat
through which a man could thrust
both his hands
Tried TO Kill Son.
After committing the fatal deed
which caused his death a few hours
later, Grady reached for his younger
boy and would doubtless have cut his
throat also had not the almost paral-
yzed mother hurled her child outside
the room and herself barred the door
against her husband.
Seeing that his life was of but short
duration, the wounded man started
to walk across the floor to a table on
the other side of the room. He bare
ly reached half way across when he
toppled and fell from loss of blood.
With dying determinations. however.
he raised himself and stumbled to the
chair across the intervening space,
and hurriedly wrote the following
note:
Maligns His Wife.
This is the seventh time have
tried to build home and each time
she has broken it up. Good bye. Let
me die. Henry Grady"
Allowing his head to fall on the ta-
BILE the suicide then waited until his
wife and children returned with as
sistance from nearby neighbors. When
these arrived the man walked with the
assistance of others to a lounge in the
room and lay there. conscious most all
the time, but unable to speak, until
shortly after 2 o'clock, when he lied.
Domestic Infelicity.
Investigation into the affairs of the
family revealed state of domestic in
felicity which is seldom seen among
persons who have lived together for
more than 20 years. 1t is said that
even when the man was waving his
razor yesterday morning and threat
ening to cut his throat his wife told
him he had not the nerve to do the
deed. This apparently emboldened
the man until he made the fatal slash
and the backward stroke which caus-
ed his death.
That he had not nerve to do the act
when he first took the razor is at i
tested by the fact that there are nine |
slight cuts on his left throat showing |
where he had started each time and
then lost courage.
The family came to Milton several
months ago and he worked for sew
eral persons in this vicinity. Those
with whom he has been associated
say that he was of an extremely des-
pondent disposition and seldom talked
except when spoken to.
A few months ago Mr.. Grady pur-
chased five-acre tract of land on
the old Dorothy place and has since
built him a small house. 1t has been
learned that neither the house nor the
land have been paid for.
Man Was jealous.
The wife of the dead man is said
o be woman of about the same age
rs her husband. but of more than or
1inary beauty in woman in her sta
ion of life. The husband was jeal-
ous of alleged relations of his wife
With other men. She is said to have
eft him frequently for small visits to
Walla Walla and other places.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
,een made.