The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-11-21
ARCHIE G. MCKAY ENDS
OWN LIFE.

Young Man Shoots Himself
Through the Heart-Deliber-
ateJy Planned-Leaye Pathetic
Note in Which He Gives Whis-
KEY and Cigarettes as the
Cause.
Archie G. Mckay. a5oue "A
vears old. chief clerk at the Sea-
board station here, committed
suicide Thursday evening . lew
minutes before : o'clock in MS
room at the home Of Mr.. J. ".
Morris, cashier at the Seaboard
depot, corner OF Walnut ard
First streets, by shooting HIM
self through the heart with
Colts automatic revolver. Death
resulted in about FIVE minutes
after the fatal shot was fired.
The deceased was a son of Mr..
NJ. G. Mckay, an aged and we'll
to-do citizen OF Laurinburg, and
the remains were taken to Laur-
inburg Friday morning by Rev.
Mr.. Williams, pastor of the Bap-
tist church of that place, and Mr..
CT. Goodwin, both friends of the
family, who arrived Thursday
night about two hours after the
tragedy.
1t was inexpressibly sad. per-
haps the saddest tragedy ever
enacted IN Lumberton, and when
i became known, as it did in an
incredibly short time, the entire
community was profoundlyshOck-
ed. Native ability that might
have carried him far III the
world, a personality that had
Won him many friends during his
short stay in Lumberton, all the
promise Of young manhood
these Things skilled nothing in
his hour CT fierce trail, and shut
ting himself alone in his room.
with no suggestion Of bitterness
toward the world, or to any per.
son in it, with a hearty Al.
right. OLD boy, come in" upon his
lips IN response TO the earnest
appeal of a friend to be allowed
TO come in, he coolly placed q pis
tol to his breast and sent a suee
messenger of death into his
heart.
That he had fully made up hi:
mind to take his life several hours
before there seems no doubt
Wednesday night, while sitting
i'll the office at the Seaboart
freight depot, Mr.. j. D. Nc
MILAN, night operator, the onl.
other.man in the room, observed
Mr.. Mckay throw his right han'
back to his hip pocket and leal
himself forward with his hea'
bowed, in which position he re
mained for some time, as thougl
in profound debate with him
self. Finally Mr.. Mcmillan CAV
the young man dig in the sid
and Mr.. Mckay .immediatel
Strengthened up, jerked out tn
pistol upon which his hand ha
been resting, and fired six shot
in rapid succession into a desk il
the room. Mr.. Mckay had evi
IDENTIFY been drinking then an
the following day he did no work
but in the afternoon was abou
the depot tor some time. a
told two men with whom he frc
licked for a while to wait unit
tomorrow and they could do any
thing with him they pleased
Later he tried to borrow a pistc
from Mr.. c. E. Rogers, but Nj,
Rogers refused on some pretex1
and after that Leslie Biggs,
whom he had loaned his oW
pistol, returned it to him, nc
dreaming, of course, that tn
young man contemplated doin
himself injury. Lonnie Fishe
oought a telegraph instrument {
Mckay Thursday and McKa
told him to pay him bt
tore the evening passenger trai
left. Just about train time Fis!
er offered him tie money b,
Mckay told him to keep tf
money and not let anybody kno
ne owed him anything. that
would not need it, that he he
always been a bother to ever,
body and was going to settle
all right here" pointing to h
heart. Many other expression
OF like nature were made durir
the afternoon, but no one pa
special heed, tn hiking. naturall
tnat they were but the carele
expressions of man who ha
lndulged too freely, Short