A Study in Suicide.

Evening Star, Issue 7187, 15 April 1887, Page 2

A Study in Suicide.

The circumstances connected with the suicide of a young Turkish journalist, Besliir Fnad Bey, are of so Singularly melancholy a nature that it may not he thought prurient on our part (says the 'LevantHerald') t<s record them here. On Saturday last Fuad; Bey returned to his home,, at Nalli'Meajid; Stamboul, about nine After com' pleting certain'correspondence h's locked himself in and proceeded to undress. Then, having inoculated his left arm with-cocain6; to kill the pain, he opened the veins of it & four different •points, cutting' the carotid artery with a pair of- scissors. While the blood was thus flowing' from his Wounds, Fuad Bey wrote ais follows, until compelled by weakness to desist:— - •«' .'^>* My operation is performed. I felt no painonly a Blight pricking after the loss of Wood; At this moment mi sisW is outside, knocking; but I have sent her away, saying I am busy; Luckily she .does not insist upon eritermgv tI can imagine no sweeter death 'than thin 2 lift my arm to let the blood flow freely. My head Bwims—l am going to faint ...

The narrative stops there. Fuad Bey could never continue it. - When the door is at length broken open, which is not effected until his death-ory summons the household} he is found there in his last agony. "Doctor," he says feebly to the surgeon who tries to administer relief, "giveyourBelf no trouble; I have but five minutes to live." And after a few moments Fuad Bey breathes his last. • A letter.was ffiund, addressed to the police, 1 , far which the deceased begged them to accuse no one of his death] He. bequeathed his body to the School of Medicif e for the purposes of dissection..! In letters to his friends Fuad Bey declared that his mother had died in a mad state, and "the footers had told him that a like fate was in store for him. Thus, after squandering his fortune of some L 20.000, he resolved to kill .himself, Fuad Bey,was only thirty-twoV he leaves a. wife jand two children. ..sfc ginning-life as an officer, he ended it as.:# journalist, for which his Uhguistic talents and hiß flexible him, ■•-.•...,* • j . -.