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Show ENDED LIFE WITH A RAZOR. A Tcntn Ward Englishman Prefers That method of Departure to , Escape the Rheumatism. An elderly Englishman by the name of Abbott, living in the Tenth ward, and a gardener by vocation, having come to the conclusion to fly to troubles he knew not of, this morning made a successful attempt at-tempt to end the slings and arrows of outraged fortune on this mortal coil by cutting his throat with a razor.' The rash act was done while his wife was gone to-the to-the butcher's to get a breakfast steak. On her return home she found her husband on his knees in a small back room with a grping gash in his throat and the glare of death in his eyes, the bloody blade reeking with his hot life fluid being still in his hand. Frightened and screaming, Mrs. Abbott alarmed the neighborhood. People rushed to the house . to see the dying man, who, in his despair and desire that his horrible work should not be uneffective, implored the visitors to trample on him so that his blood would flow more readily, and thus assist him out of his misery. " - He gave as the cause of his suicide that for j'ears he had been an acute sufferer, suf-ferer, from rheumatism, and that he wanted to get out of his misery. |