Show our clifton correspondent who was waa absent from towa tow a when the shocking alcide ul cide mentioned in these columns a short tune time since mccurr occurred d sends us additional particulars of the sad affair which occurred on the lust samuel henderson jr a carpenter by trade and a married man and the father of three children the youngest only four months old arose on the morning of the above date apparently in good spirits i he ate his breakfast as usual and abd while his wife was wag in the corral the cow he arose from his chair kissed each ol 01 01 his bis children an affectionate farewells fare well welli walked to the cupboard drawer and took out a razor and placed it in his pocket he bade his children a see s cond farewell and lat the room saying as he did so 1 I have not long to live he proceeded in the dire direction cLion of ef the stable passing his wife on the way and remarking to her just previous to entering why lid you are quite a cowboy As he closed the door of the stable he bade lits liis wife good vye bye in ia a pleasant way and immediately drew the razor from roro his pocket and se severed verea the jugular vein his wife observing that his hia actions were peculiar followed him and was horror stricken when opening the stable door to find her husband standing over the manger and watching his big own lifes blood flowing from froan the ghastly wound tile the only words he said were that he did the deed with his own hand band he died in thirty minutes no one knows why he commit ted the rash act logan journal dw dec 24 |