Show I JOSEPH B MCULLOUGH 1 Ends His Life by Jumping From a Window t h HIS SKULL BATTERED IN HAD BEEN ILL SINCE EARLY I NOVEMBER 1 Suffered From Acute Asthma Complicated 1 Com-plicated Wth Nervous Depression j Depres-sion as the Result of Overwork During the Late Election A Brilliant Journalistic Career Ended S I 1 St Louis Del 31 Josepli B Mc Cullough editor of the GlobeDemo f crat was found dead on the pavement 1 in the rear or his residence No 3813 I West Pine boulevard at 630 this j morning Si He had evidently jumped from the window of his room on the third floor some time between midnight and daybreak 4 day-break and dashed his brains out on j the stone tagging of the yard At 630 this morning one of the 1 stable boys employed by Mrs Manion a sisterinlaw with whom Mr Mc 1 Cullough lived found the body The skull was L battered in and the brains i were scattered auuui on me nagging I Mr McCullough was attired in his 4 night clothes Mr McCullough had I been confined to his room since November No-vember 10 with acute asthma complicated I cated with nervous depression as a i result of his arduous labors in the recent re-cent election Dr C I Hughes his physician said this morning Mr McCullough was tired of living and killed himself He gave no premonition premo-nition of suicide during his illness raw r-aw him for a little while last evening even-ing He said he could not sleep and 1 gave me to understand he wanted mp to leave him alone His brain was affected but his intellect was all right He suffered from profound nervousness i and exhaustion complicated with a recurring 1 re-curring kidney trouble The late campaign 1 cam-paign undermined his health v No writings were found in Mr Me f Culloughs room exceptiong his act of leaving instructions for arrangements for his funeral Joseph B McCullough was born in J Dublin Ireland in November 1842 and when about 1 years of ago came to this country in a sailing vessel working work-ing his passage before the mast Arriving Ar-riving in New York in 1853 he was apprenticed J ap-prenticed to learn the printing business in the office of the Freemans Journal Five years later in 1858 he came to St Louis entered the office of the Christian Advocate as a printer When the war broke out he acted as correspondent 1 cor-respondent with the Cincinn a Commercial Com-mercial and this work gained him a great reputation Later he acted as Washington correspondent for that paper pa-per In 1S6S he became editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1870 he went to Chicago and took charge of the Republican Repub-lican of that city The great fire of the following year swept the Republican out of existence and Mr McCullough assumed editorial management of the Missouri Democrat of St Louis The paper was later on consolidated with the Globe and Mr McCullough continued contin-ued in charge of the GlobeDemocrat from that time to the present He never married Every minute detail surrounding the tragic death of Mr McCullough has been developed and all confirm the theory of death by suicide One of the mental tendencies of the deceased known only to a very few who were his intimates was the stoical belief that when life was a burden it could in good conscientiousness be laid down I is now admitted by his attendants at-tendants that he committed suicide At 10 oclock last night he was found in bed almost asphixiated by unlighted gas jets turned on He was with difficulty f culty revived His room was examined exam-ined today and the jets were again found turned on The attempt at gas suffocation proved too slow for the determined de-termined man and in desperation he leaped from a window The death of no citizen in St Louis within a decade has caused such a sensation All classes wonder at his tragic end and none more so than the political opponents whom he valiantly fought and often vanquished The details of the final obsequies will announced tomorrow |