The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-02-04
PHYSICIAN TOOK !
HIS LIFE WITH
NO Of SCIENCE
DR.. stuckey's knowledge of
Drugs Enabled Him to Die
Easily and Painlessly. Text
Of His Farewells.

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How. armed with "a knowledge of
drugs and with certain things at hand.
one may commit suicide easily and
painlessIy was disclosed at tho inquest
INT" the death of DIR. r.. O. Stuckey in
Justice CraiR's court today. Using his
knowledge as u physician. Dr. Stuckey
ARRANGED to slip without a struggle into
the Beyond while In deep sleep.
He mixed "a dose 81 morphine sufH-
cient to Kill him and saturated a cloth
with chloroform. Then he swallowed
the morphine. lay down in bed and
placed the chloroform-soaked cloth
over his l~ostrils and mouth. What fol-
lowed was scientific death. First he
went under the influence of ohloro-
form and then the slowcr-acting but
deadly morphine discharged its ap-
pointed task. DecDer and deeper he
sank into drugged slumbcr until the
silent tragedy ran its course and his
heart stopped.
He had been dead between three and
six hours when the body was q scover-
ed In bed at 8 o'clock yesterday
morning.
DR.. l.. q. Rice. who performed the
post mortem examination. explained
tho manner of death to tho jury lie
told how the body lay, in an attit ude
OF sleep. with u bath towel wrapped
about the head and face; how he found
an empty morphine bottle near the
bed and an empty chloroform bottle in
DR.. Stuckey's medicine cabinet: and
how those things, together with a let
ter and a written statement left by the
suicide, made the manner OF the sick
physlGlan's end plain.
Post norton examination, DR.. Rrre
said, showed that Or. Stickey had tu-
~berculosis of the lungs, but their con
dition was not such that il could have
brought about his death yesterday. II
was impossible to form any other opin-
ion, the physician said. than that NOR
phine and chloroform were the cause
OF death.
DIR. Rice knew of his own know
ledge that suicide was In DIR. Stuckey's
mind. DR.. Stuckey had said to him
more than once. DR.. Rice testified, that
II he became convinced he would never
be able to practice again he would not
wish TO live.
Mrs. Stuckey, dressed in deer
mourning anG showing signs of the
strain under which she il passing. tes-
tiiicd that her husband had spoSen
several times of suicide and hal been
plainly Respondent.
DR.. Stucky's farewell letter 10 his
wife n the statement he left nd
dressed To the public were placed in
evidence. So was My Greed" writ
ten by mr., Stuckey in December. 1915.
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-four months, was AZ follows
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