The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-09
PHYSICIAN SAW
I STEDMAN TEAR
|. OPEN HIS WOUND
Coroner Now Satisfied Dead
Cotton Broker Mutilated
IA. Himself.
SUICIDE MADE CLEAR.
drove a Ratchet into His Skull
and Resisted All Efforts
to Save Him.

Special 10 The Etsnins wufid.I
\ GREENWICH. Conn, Feb. 0.---Satis-
NED that William 4. Stedman, the
wealthy New York cotton broker. COM
United suicide Saturday In his homo
here by tho strange device Of crush
ing his skull with the hammer END
q Ratchet and driving Into the
wound four-inch pocket knife, Cor
oner Phclan OF Bridgeport to-day
rave q permit for the removal Of the
body. 1t seemed at first incredible
to the Coroner and members Of the
family that Mr.. Stedinan could pos
9hly have plunged the knife into his
n0in after his skull was fractured
DR.. w. L. Griswold. head Of the
Greenwich Hospital. who operated on
Mr.. Stedman when he was taken
there late Saturday afternoon gave
the explanation which satisfied the
Coroner that Mr.. Stedman had killed
shimsslf.
TORE OPEN HIS WOUND Before
~ THE DOCTOR.
"while was holding his left arm
Ind the nurse was cleansing the
sdges Of the wound" said DR. Girls
wold, Mr.. Stedman wrenched his
hand away from me and plunged 1,
Into the assure Of his skull. In an
Mort to tear the wound fur Cher
open.
He then became weaker. He
counted up to thirty before he be-
came altogether unconscious. The
counting IL explained by the instruc-
ton given to him when he was put
under ether before an operation for
Appendicitis Q year ago. He was told
then that when he could no longer
speak he should count 30 that the
surgeons would know that he had
lost consciousness.
The man who had strength Il
wrench his arm from me and thrus
his fingers into his brain long aftel
no had smashed his skull certainly
had strength 10 use the knife. I fount
the knife while probing the wound
TO De BURIED BESIDE HIS FIRST
Prosecuting Attorney Ross E
! Brush and Police Captain Talbot
wer satisfied with DIR. Griswold's ex.
PLANTATION and dropped tho case.
Tho funeral service will be held
here this afternoon by the Rev. Mr.
iGeorge Thompson of the Christ Epis.
kcopal Church and the burial will b<
1t Colchester tomorrow beside thu
body of Mr.. Stedman's first wife.
ID Mr.. Stedman was found in the eel
lar Of his home on the Meade estat,
here. which he leased three weeks ago
~ the butler. who heard "A sliding o
nj In the furnace bin. Mr.. StedmaI
6as In robust health physically. bu
I'D been depressed mentally for sew
n weeks.
Both Mrs. stedman and his wifi
re under the care of q trainet
lrse. Mr.. Stedman was a membe
the cotton brokerage Arm o
eephan NJ. Weld 4 Co. Of No. g.
Dnaver street. New York. Hi
brothep 10 the assistant superintendent
the Brooklyn Water Company. H
~ forty-four years old. His las
rvous breakdown had occurred tw'
Ionths ago.
Notwithstanding the permit for tn
Removal of the body DIR. ]. 4. Clarke
medical examiner. submitted q repor
10 Coroner Phelan Of Bridgeport to
hay saying that there was still som
H6Nots the Coroner should investigate
! He said that Mr.. Stedman had beel
found sitting up In achair OH the sea
Of which was the Ratchet with whicl
.his skull had been broken.
Coroner Philah will! hold an inquea
here Tomorrow.