Republican farmer., 1920-04-09
 CAUSES BISHOP
 TO END LIFE
Slashes Abdomen-Opera. tion Could Not Save
 Him,

Seized with rather sudden attack of melancholia after a seeming re- covery after a trip to Florida a few
 months ago, Nathaniel W. Bishop, son of the late William D. Bishop, one-tirne president of the New Ha- ven road, entered the bathroom of his home Saturday and there stabbed himself so seriously that his death followed early Sunday morning.
 Mir. Bishop, who had been appzr- enty in better health lately than foi some time past, eviently suffered a relapse Saturday and told his wife he was going for walk and would stop at the doctors while out. He went to the home of Dr. Henry Blodgett, 379 Park avenue, a few doors from his own home and so i'm pressed was the doctor with his call CTS nervous state that he accompa- nied him to his home
 Arriving at the Bishop home, 3Of Park avenue, the two men went to MT. Bishops den and after a few minutes MT. Bishop excused himself and left the room. Dr. Blodgett sus- picious, followed Mir Bishop in a. minute or two and found him lying in pool of blood on the bath room floor, blood gushing from a long
 
 MT. Bishop was immediately taken to the Bridgeport hospital where Dr. Philip W. Bill and Dr. H. Bertram Lamb bert as well as others were call ed into consultation and it was de- cided to operate immediately aI- though even this decision was re- garded as almost hopeless. Medical skill proved unavailing and the end came early yesterday morning
 Medical Examiner Garlick stated after his investigation that the knife had entered beneath the heart and then been drawn downward slashing the abdomen, puncturing the lung and cutting other organs.
 MT. Bishop was born in Bridgeport, | July 16, 1865, and attended schools in | the city, later pursuing an academic | course In Yale and graduating from | the law department in 1889. While at | ahe he was prominent in athletics l and has never entirely lost his inter- | est in sports of all kinds
 Following his graduation he became l associated with Charles Sherwood in | practice and two years later entered l he firm of Chamberlain, Bishop and ! tdlIM as partner He later practice3 with Judge Stoddard of New Haven md finally save up law to become secretary and manager of the Amer can Ordnance company, the concern now known as the American and Brit Sh Manufacturing company.
 Following the outbreak of the Span war he joined the navy n 1898, becoming a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Third division of the Naval Battalion of Bridgeport. The HathanteI W. Bishop post, Spanish American War Veterans, was named liter him.
 Following the war he became sec- etary of the Bridgeport Steamboat company uIstil the line sold out to the New Haven road when he became -ctlve in management and control of ne B. ID. Pierce, Jr., company. He vas also financially interested in the ron Ledge Quarry company, and 'ther business enterprises and was lreotor in the Connecticut National 'aIk, Bridgeport Housing company nd the Morris plan company.
 The deceased was married Oct. 31, S89, to Miss Alice L. Warner MT SfS5hop was prominent in social and ] Tub circles and was a member of the | 'rooNiawn, Country, and University | lubs Durig the past war he served s heutenant-comrnande in the navy. i lie Is survived by his wife and three , ons, Warner, Alfred, and Nathaniel, ,
 brother, Henry A. Bishop, and a lster in Boston. Funeral services . 7lH be tomorrow afternoon from the ' lte nome, service to be conducted by 1 { -eV Alexander Alison, Jr., of the l arst Presnyterian church, assisted by 'ev. William Horace Day. of the n1ted church. Burial will tbe in the fountain Grove cemetery.