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Show Determined Suicide. As the 1 ea-te:n bound train vest, rday morning was leaving the tank tor the station at Weber. Morgan county, a man named T. S Walsh from Marv-vilie Cil , jumped from the cars and .tried to place his bead beneath the wheels, but was frustrated ; and the conductor, ap pearing to be aware of his mental ab erration, gave him iu charge to the brakesman. While the latter was euding him through the cars, and the train in motion, he again leaped from it, deliberite'y laid down and placed his head on the rail when seve al cars passed over him, frightfully mangling tiis head, and killing him initautly. The train wi- stopped and the body rcuiovrfd from the vicinity of the track to await a coroner's inquest. A number num-ber of papers and a little coin, with about twenty dollars in currency, were found on his person. One of the papers pa-pers contained the following: "My name Thomas Walsh, residence Alexandria. Genne--ee county', New York staie. I write this iu case f accident, that soiLe humane person may write to inv wit . .Sarah Wa.sh.'' |