The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-11
SHERIDEN A. LADD FOUND DEAD BY HIS OWN HAND NEAR UNOCCUPIED QUARRY
Body Discovered By Chance
 Passerby This Morning \ Drank Poison, Then in Agony of His Death Strug- / gle Strove to Hasten End
 By Gashing His Wrist
 With Knife.

By Gashing His Wrist
 With Knife.
 For 15 Years Electrician of
 Police Department, He
 Resigned Recently Rather
 Than Become Patrolman,
 and Had Begun Prosper
 ous Lunch Room Near
 Arms. Works.
 Sheridan A Ladd, for 15I years, until last month, electri-9 clan of the Bridgeport police department, and of late pro prietor of the Courtland, a prosperous lunch room in Bos- ton avenue at the Remington Arms & Ammunition Co.,, was found dead at 9:3o this morn ing, a suicide, near an aban- doned quarry at Park and lNOFIIES avenues.
 There was deep gash in the left wrist and the partially drained con- tents of a flask in which some roach powder had been mixed with. coffee indicate that ne sought to end his life. In business he was considered to be on the way to financial success.
 How long the body remained in the secluded spot where by chance it was found to-day is as yet not definitely established though Medical Examiner S M. Garlick has been told that Ladd was seen at 10 o'clock yesterday morning purchasing a. package of roach powder in the drug store Of Alphonse RueI1. In Lexington avenue.
 The body of Ladd was discovered at 9:30 o'clock to-day by Charles Go vino, a Iaborer living at 16S North Washington avenue who while pass ing nanr aEzuhbe1Rs@ quarry between oak street and North avenue recalled having seen a man apparently intoxi- cated in the bushes yesterday after noon at 2:sO. Peering through some parted foliage he saw the same man stretched stark upon the ground. He, at once teIephoned to the police and the city ambulance carrying Dr. J. F. Deery hastened to the spot The and after modification to the medical examiner was conveyed to the Gull liran & Mullins Morgue.
 Ladd lay upon his back, one knee high in the air and the hands above the head Blood was observed on the left coat-s1eeve and upon one knee of the light colored trousers of the well kept suit he wore. A pint flask in which some powder had ap- parent1y been mixed with coffeee was nearly, empty Close observation of xhe body showed the left wrist had 1--4-- -. <,e about one inch across the veins . which had not been severed. A pocket-knife was found in fhis cloth ing.
 Investigation made by the police tends to show that Ladd was seen in his death struggles by Govino, yester day afternoon shortly after 2 o'clock. Goyino was passing when he saw a man rolling around on the ground. The description of the clothing worn by he person seen yesterday tallies with that worn by Ladd. 2 Govinog yesterday paid no attention to the man even though he was groan- ing, for many intoxicated persons seek the seclusion of the quarries and are a familiar sight to passeps-by.
 It has been further learned that Ladd, seemingly in the best of spirits, entered the Rue1l pharmacy yesterday morning and there met Joseph Mo Mahon, a clerk whom he knew well. In neconxersation with McMahOn- it is said that SLadd remarked that he was spending the morning in effort to secure a rent for his married sister in Meriden He said that. he wanted some roach powder for the house and purchased a tin of powder, the base of which is corrosive sub1imate, a deadly poison, though slow in its action.
 To McMahon he said that he was never more prosperous than he had been since entering the lunch room business. and that he had nothing to Joking about trivial matters and was last seen going in the direction of the quarry.
 What transpired in the mind of the deceased after leaving the drug store ifs not known but it is believed that he may have swallowed the powder mixed with coffee shortly after noon and tnflict a mortal wound on the wrist with his knife. In this he probably Hailed through his weakened condition
 Dr. Gariick. who viewed the body at the morgue, withheld his finding on the cause of death until he had made a more careful investigation of the contents of the bottle found beside Ladd.
 At the Courtland restaurant this morning 1t was said byS Frank vank, who lived with Ladd at 263 Sheridan street, that the last seen of him there was on Thursday noon. He had not been to the restaurant since that time.
 Because of his long absence it was necessary to procure the services of a cousin, Henry Ladd. about the restau- rant yesterday.
 When news of the death reached
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