The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-07-17
SUPT. w. II. ANDERSON MAKES
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

Mr.. w. H. Anderson, of Paris, SUI
perlntendent of the Kentucky Central
Division of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, with headquarters in this
city, and one of the most widely
known railroad men in the State. was
found lying on the floor of the wash
room adjoining his office at the
tenth street passenger station in this
city, Sunday morning, with gaping
knlfe-wounds in his throat A small
pocket knife, with which the deed
was committed, lay by his side.
Mr.. Anderson had been on duty a
large part of Saturday night helping
the yard men to straighten out a tan
gle of congested traffic in the South
Paris yards. He went home at an
early hour in an apparently cheerful
frame of mind, and afer few hours
rest, returned to his duties. What
transpired in the interval between
the night and the morning hour
when he returned to his Office is as
yet sealed page, with various vague
rumors filling the place of solid
truth.
He came into the Office about the
time the fast train from Cincinnati
was coming in, and at time when
the office employees are generally cas-
ing up in their work. He passed
into the wash-room, and nothing more
was seen of him until Mr.. Homer
Kiser, employed in the trainmaster's
department, on going into the room
to wash his hands, found Mr.. An
derson on the floor, and the wash
bowl and his clothing saturated with
blood, which was flowing from three
ugly gashes in his throat. Mr..
KiSer endeavored to assist the wound
ed man, and hurriedly summoned Mr..
George Wilder, and others of the
yard and Office force. Physicians were
summoned and Mr.. Anderson was re-
moved in an ambulance to the Massie
Memorial Hospital, where an examin.
alton revealed the fact that the wind
pipe had been severed, the keen blade
of the knife missing the juglar vein
by the narrowest fraction Restora-
tives were applied and the wounds
bound up.
Papers were found in the room
where the wounded man was found,
but their contents were not revealed,
as the railroad men, with their Gus
omary reticence, refused to make any
statement of personal knowledge of
the papers. One of the papers Mr..
Anderson had vainly tried to finish,
the writing trailing off into an al
most illegible scrawl, he evidently
having succumbed to the loss of
blood before being able to finish it.
No reason for the act had yet been
II
derson, being unable to talk, all that
has been said on the streets has been
mere unconfirmed rumors. The most
accepted theory is that of overwork,
the responsibilities of his position
being great and hard on a nervous
system such as he possessed.
At the hospitals yesterday the ply
sicians and attendants stated that
Mr.. Anderson had a fighting chance
for recovery, unless unforeseen compll-
cations should set in. The physicians
were afraid of the danger of pneumo-
mia, and were directing all their en-
ergies to combating that possibility
Mr.. Anderson came to Paris many
years ago from Virginia and took a
position in the employ of the Louis
Vile & Nashville in the train operat-
ing department as a telegraph Oper-
ator. He had a natural genius fol
such work, and the railroad people
recognized his capability by making
rapid promotions until he was finally
made Superintendent Of the division
in which he showed the same sigma
ability that distinguished his earlier
career. He is very popular amons
tho amn1oveS Of the road and WITH
the oficials. Mr.. Anderson has Ions
been a prominent factor in the bus
mess life of Paris, being director
and stakeholder in its financial in
situations, and leading member o
the Paris Commercial Club and it
successor, the Business Mems Associ
alton. He was married several year
ago to Miss Lucy Alexander, a daugh
ter of the late Mr.. W. w. Alexander
and a great-niece of the late Jeffer
son Davis, president of the Southerl
Confederacy. They have no children