The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-26
PORTER
KILLS HIMSELF
Deputy Clerk of Chancery Court
Cuts His Throat With Razor,
Dying Instantly.

Algernon G. t"Journcy') Porter,
fifty four years old, for moro than
twenty years n deputy clerk OF the
Chancery Court. committed suicide yes
tcrday morning about o'clock by cut
ting his throat with razor. Mr.. Por-
ter killed himself in the bathroom of
his home. 2s11 East Marshall Street.
Melancholia was given AS tho cause
for his net.
For three weeks MIR. Porter had been
under treatment at the Virginia Hos
pitaI. However. ho was not confined
in bed, but allowed to walk about the
institution. lie was visited Monday
night by Mrs Porter. She was sur
prised shortly after she returned home
to zee him enter the front door, She
hurriedly telephoned the hospital. and
the authorities there were surprised
to learn he had left. 1t was thought
Mr.. Porter had merely stepped on the
front porch for few minutes. Mrs.
Porter was directed to put her hus-
band to bed ut once and was told what
treatment she was to administer. Mr..
Porter told his wife he wanted to come
home, for he felt better and thought
he would recover more quickly under
her care. He had borrowed car fare
from Il. j. Warren the aged City Aud
itor, who is a patient at the hospital.
Cheerful Before He Died.
When he awoke yesterday morning
Mr.. Porter talked cheerfully with his
wife, and she went downstairs to pre-
pare breakfast. She was talking with
her brother. Newton Lee. who had
called to inquire about Mr.. Porter.
when she heard something fall. She
at first thought II was her son. Newton
Porter, getting out OF bed. She ran
upstairs, but found her son asleep. Mr..
Porter was not in his room, and Il fran
tic search soon revealed to her horri-
fled gaze the form of her husband lying
in a pool of his own blood upon the
bathroom floor. Her screams attract
cd other members of the household and
neighbors. DR.. Hugh NJ. Taylor was
hurriedly summoned. but he could be
of no assistance Mr.. Porter had APP
/ parcntly died instantly, having severed
the jugular vein. Coroner Taylor
viewed the body and said II was q clear
quest.
Mr.. Porter was widely known. His
death came as shock to his host OF
friends. to whom he had always been
cheerful and In the best OF humor.
Mr.. Porter was a native of King and
Queen County. He came to Richmond
when child. After leaving school he
| became n bookkeeper for the firm OF
Thaxton & Nicholas. More than twenty
years ago he became a deputy clerk
unucr tlerR CnaTieS tIoddin, or the
| Chancery Court, and retained that Of
flee under Major Charles o. Saville. He
was regarded by Major Saville as one
of the most efficient members OF his
| staff.
/ BESIDES a widow. Mr.. Porter leaves
| two sons-Newton l. Porter. of Rich
mond. and y. C. Porter. Jr, of Chicago;
! two daughters-aIrs. u. w. LanSford
and Miss Ruth Porter. of Pine Bluff
Ark. and one sister. Mrs. Mamie By-
| land, also OF Arkansas.
| The funeral will take place this af-
| ternoon at $3.50 o'clock from the resi-
dencc. Interment will be made in
! Hollywood Cemetery. The pallbearers
| will be: Wallace f. Brown. Arden
f dGIe IT, A Barney Frisehkorn a. and two S%
members of tho Odd Fellows. yet &c
be named