Year: 1859

SINGULAR SUICIDE NEW ORLEANs.-The fol-
lowing statements are taken from the New Orleans
Crescent of the oath


In October last, Sylvester Rupert an English
ship carpenter, lost by yellow fever, his youngest
child, about fouryears old, and particular pet of
the father. This is blow from which the father
never recovered Not able to buy tomb, he had
the child buried in the ground in Greenwood Gene
terry. The grief preyed heavily upon him. 1t was
his only thought; and being out of his regular en-
ployment, he found employment in his grief He
bought a lot in the cemetery, and with bricks and
other materials, by himself built a tomb Instead
of the usual stone slab he covered the vault with
board, which was screwed to frame fitted in the
mouth; on the board he carved an inscription with
his knife. He was in the habit of opening the tomb
and gazing at the decaying corpse He freouentlv
complained to his wife of his inapilitv to get work
and spoke of death desirable. On Thursday the
10th, when he left home he told his wife that if he
had no better luck in finding work, she would never
see him again. He also said something about hay-
ing place in which to rest.


That evening, or that night he visited the ceme-
terry, taking with him his screw-driver, an iron
trunk-handle, small rod of iron, piece of wire
some new screws, and a large vial of laudanum
Unscrewing the board of the tomb, he threw away
the screws and filled the screw-holes in the board
with clay.


With his new screws he then secured the trunk
handle to the inside of the board. Pushing his
chds coffin aside he got in by its side taking with
him his poison and the other articles with which he
had provided himself. His hat he placed upon the





around brick for pillow. He shut himself in with
the board by of the handle he had screwed to
it, the board fitting outside the wooden frame. The
iron bar, which of the proper length he placed
the frame inside. The thickness of the frame
would not allow the bar to pass through the trunk
handle on the inside of the board; so he secured
the handle and the bar by means of his wire coil
ing it through the one and around the other. He
did not succeed in fitting the board squarey upon
the frame. One corner of it caught upon the brick
work outside the frame; this he did not discover.
probably, owing to the darkness of the night: and
but for this little circumstance his fate would prob
ably have been discovered or not at least for
many years. Having thus hid himself away. he
drained his laudnum bottle, composed himself on
his back placed the brick and coat beneath his head
and went to sleep. His absence that night topeth-
er with his conduct and news alarmed his wife and
in the morning she went to the cemetry looked for
him and was about to leave, when she noticed that
the board was slightly displaced, and found it was
loose; she pulled it little, and saw the dead face
of her husband. She tainted and laid in the grass
for she could not tell how long. On her recovery
she informed the sexton; the Coroner was called
an inquest was held, and a verdict of suicide by
having taken laudnum was rendered.


On Tuesday evening party of rowdies went into
the provision store of Mr.. Henry Ford, in New
York, took what they wanted, endeavored to rob
the money drawer, and when asked for payment for
| the eatabes they had taken, knocked Ford down
and beat him badly. Ford got away from them
and came back with loaded gun. Another ipht
began, and Mike O'Brien, one of the rowdies, wa.
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