A series of strange deaths: This one is from The Face in the Window: IN THE BUCKEYE STATE FARMER’S SUICIDE He Took a Quantity of Dynamite to a Field and Blew Himself to Atoms. Payne, O., March 23 Samuel Haggerty, a prosperous and wealthy farmer living three miles south of town, committed suicide in a most shocking manner Friday. He took a quantity of dynamite and went to the field, announcing his intention to blast stumps. Later a violent explosion alarmed the neighbors and on investigation they found a few scattered remnants of the despondent man. Esquire Rubin was called and held an inquest which established the fact that the deceased had placed several pounds of the explosive in a large stump, sat thereon and deliberately lighted the fuse. Despondency over the loss of his wife is thought to be the cause. STRANGLED WITH HER OWN HAIR Strangled With Her Own Hair Madeline Messner Commits Suicide in a Novel Manner. Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 30. Madeline Messner of Gibsonburg, Ohio, a melancholy patient at the insane asylum here committed suicide this afternoon in a peculiar manner. While sitting in a chair she fastened her hair around her neck and to the back of the chair and leaned forward. When found some minutes later she was dead. A Grain of Wheat Mason, O., Oct. 15 – Edward Bowyer, a young farmer, living south of this place, on last Saturday suffered a grain of wheat to enter the cavity of one of his teeth. To dislodge the grain he employed a pin, which slipped and scratched his jaw, causing blood poison, from which it is feared he cannot recover. DIED LAUGHING A Boy’s Terrible Ride With His Father’s Corpse. AKRON,O, Sept. 29—Wadsworth, a town about twelve miles west of this city, is agitated over the strange death of Frederick Hamilton, a well-known coal operator there. Last night, in riding home from his mine, a few miles from Wadsworth, with his son, Mr. Hamilton, who was in an uncommonly good humor, broke off suddenly in the midst of a loud “guffaw” and fell over against his son, never speaking again. The boy, lashing his horse with one hand and holding the apparently lifeless form up with the other, drove at break-neck speed, all the time shouting to his parent to arouse him, but he was already dead. All efforts of Wadsworth’s physicians who worked over him a half hour later, proved of no avail. The post mortem has not yet been held.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:48:07 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015