Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-01-30
clSHFD HIMSELF TO DEATH
WITH KNIFE AND RAZOR
Rroodioa Over Continued III Health S. A. Sullivan Takes
His Own Life
HAVING PUT HIS BUSINESS AFFAIRS
'''' NSHlPE and WARNED HIS FRIENDS
THiT They MIGHT NEVER SEE HIM
ALIVE AGAIN, POSTOFfICE CLERK
REPEATEDLY STABS HIMSELF, FIN.
Ally SEVERING AN ARTERY And
BLEEDING TO DEATH.

ALLY SEVERING AN ARTERY AMI
BLEEDING TO DEATH.
With cal mdeliberation and stoicisrl
rrpxampIed in the annals of self-do'
strnction. planning with minute pre-
cison every detail of the shocking
tragedy Alex Sullivan went to his
y death at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
so successfully planned was the sui
ciia act that when friends rushed to
n tbp rescue he was already beyond the
bounds of human aid.
Alone in his room in the residence
of Mr.. Philo Smith on Church street,
the distressing tragedy was enacted.
A colored servant was first to find
the body. lying upon the floor, while
few feet away lay the knife, still
red with blood, with which he had
ended his life.
When DR.. Mayes, among the first to
reach the chamber of death examined
N the body he found ten or dozen
a knife thrusts in the breast, near the
heart The blade evidently, did not
N touch that organ, despite the repeated
Stabs made at it. Then the knife was
thrown aside for another weapon.
RadiaI Artery Is Severed.
Sullivan, it was said, secured his ra>
zor, or a sharper knife, and then
holding his left wrist over the wash
bowl upon the dresser, he coolly sew
cred the radial artery. AS if this
We're not sufficient, he turned his
hand over and with a quick slash cut
The artery on the other side. Either
cut would have proved fatal quickly
Holding over the washbowl the
hand from which, in two streams, the
life blood ebbed, he evidently regard
ed with satisfaction his successful
work until he fell dead from ex-
hauston.
The bowl was half filled with blood.
IAere was none upon the bed linen
Or furniture in the room. Considerate
VI others, even upon the brink OF
eternity. Such were the gruesome
'lsnts witnessed by those first among
upon the scene of tragedy.
Tragedy Result of Illness.
NF' Sulliyan's intimate friends be.
'7'e thaJ he was mentally unbalanc-
90 at the time he took his life, the re-
SUIT oI long continued illness. For
Two weeks past he had been confined
10 his room, but long preceding this
P7I'oo ms health had been much i'm
pared, He despaired of recovery, and
vas correspondingly depressed.
his associates in the postohice,
Ano"ing his physical infrmities, were
MT greatly surprised at his act OF
~7''-ue.struction, a shock to them,
though it was.
MI sullivan had been confined to
nome recently, as stated, but was
,O"'y Improving Saturday morning
D'sI CLERK A. B. Howard called at
nome and found him much de.
s'Seo. Upon leaving Mr.. Howard re-
NeQ That he would see him again
'Ds DAY following. "You may see mt
ou' never again will I see you," was
The reply.
mad Made His VIII Also.
mr. Howard did not regard the an.
's' seriously, and it did not recul
Ill" again until after the suicide
''' too, it was remembered tha'
''y recently Mr.. Sullivan executed
: Will and arranged minutely hi
business affairs. Even weeks
~ II was seen, he contemplated tn,
day
'De IN the world, his nearest rel
ives a cousin. Mr.. w. C. Sullivan
'''0ehtly preferred pathetic dealt
hess. "
nc Oody was taken in charge b
i'Son Undertaking Co. and pre