Arizona republican., 1919-06-20
DYNAMITE
 LOVER, ENDSH|S
 ALTERED LIFE
Slashes Throat In His Hos pital Room with Hidden Weapon-Plotted a Bomb Outrage Weeks Ago

county jail as the dynamite lover,'' early yesterday morning brought dra- matic end to his life, the strings of which had become tangled.
 With a safety razor blade which he had secured in some unknown manner and after sending the nurse rom the room at St. Josepn's hospital on the pretext of an errand at o'clock yes terday morning, Clay grimly proceeded to slash his throat. After seven Or eight attempts on both sides of h;a throat, the frantic man succeeded in severing the jugular vein and was ceaG i'll a few minutes.
 Not more than ten minutes after the nurse had left Clay's room, Miss Bailey, another nurse, passed the door and noted the gruesome sight. The man already was unconscious and life prac- tically extinct from the excessive loss of blood All efforts were made to re- vive the man, the wound in the neck being sewed up by Dr. Harry Carson, who pronounced the case practically hopeless upon his arrival
 Had Threatened to End Life
 Clay who had been at St. Joseph's hospital for some time, transferred from the county jail to have an oper- ation performed, had made numerou, threats to take his own life. To guard against the execution of such a threat, all knives and anything that might aio him in such a deed were taken away from him.
 How he secured the safety razor blade cannot be explained Clay evil l dently had it secreted within easy and i quick reach, for after sending the nurse 1 from the room he secured it without i delay and proceeded at once to end his | life. It was not considered necessary l to hold an inquest, the physician in charge signing the death certificate and giving as the direct cause of death a 'self-inflicted wound
 Contemplating death at one time from a bomb Clay was closely watched after being removed from the county ! jail to the hospital where an operation was performed a week ago. On Friday Sheriff Montgomery was asked to mo- ! tify Clay's parents, MT. and Mrs. James Clay of Osakis, Minnespta, that there was little chance for his recovery. The relatives had not been heard from last evening relative to what disposition should be made of the body which has been placed in charge of the Whitney undertaking company
 Planned Death of Girl And Himself
 Arrested several weeks ago arter placing an internal machine containing IS sticks of dynamite on the grouncs Of Desert Inn, Clay was held to answer on the charge of placing explosives where people frequently pass when given a preliminary hearing Derore Justice Wheeler. It is understood that the defense in the higher court was to have been insanity and that scores o1 witnesses would have been called to testify to the peculiarities exhibited by the man who conceived the idea or Ge- stroying the girl he loved and himself
 Clay was employed by Dr. Francis H Redewill as caretaler of the fnr grounds. Tn this manner he had the . handling of the dynamite which ht used in uprooting certain of the tree' , about the place. He placed the boml in a pathway near the outdoor scnoo
 building by which the Redewill chil
 dren and Miss Anna Hornoerger, theI governess, whom Clay protested h, : loved, passed and repassed.
 After plotting to take the fife of tn
 lovely young woman, Clay appeared a 2 the down town office of Dr. Redewil
 and asked for the salary due him. I
 was rather in excess of the amount, bu the physician, in appreciation Of tn work Clay had done pald the amour . in full.
 Revealed His Plot to Doctor
 4 few hours later Clay returned t |" the office and told Dr. Redewil1, sine
 he had treated him squarely, he woul . make a frank confession Of a pic which he had formed in which tn
 Redewill children might also have bee
 victims. He told the physicians Of tn
 bomb he had planted and by which l had meant to end his own life and tha of Miss Hornberger and had been pre- f vented only by her bringing the cnil . dren into the city on that morning.
 In order to pacify the man, pr. Rede
 will agreed to say nothing about it, bu after his departure he immediately hel
 a conference with County Attorney I NJ. Laney, and Clay's arrest followed The officers made a thorough 1nves | tigation at the Inn and found dynamit = in sufficient quantities to blow up a
 entire down town section. Anon - Clays personal effects was member
 ship card in the I. W. W.
 r Although naturally regretting sue q grim and terrible ending to Clay n life" said Dr. Redewill last night, . = feel that I did right in turning over |
 the officers and to justice a man VII
 fixed up such an internal plan ths V might have blown up four city block !; and destroyed many people. felt ths l. he was a menace to society and that
 I consented to his being turned loos ,r that he would plan another outrage |,