A Turkish Journalists Record of His Last Moments.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 203, 14 May 1887, Page 3

A Turkish Journalists Record of His Last Moments.

Thk oireunWniwes connected with the .^ui cide of a young Turkish journalist, Beshir Fuad Be>, ate of so singularly melancholy a nature that it may not be thought prurient on our part to record them here. On Saturday last Fuad Bey returned to hift home, at Naili Medjid, Stamboul, about nine o'clock. After completing certain conespondence he locked him»eU i», H»d piocceded to undrew. Then, having inoculated his left aim with cocaine, to kill the pain, he opened tlie veins ot it in four different points, cutting the carotid ait-cryi t-ery with a pair of scissors. While the blood was thus flowing from his wound*, Fnad Bey -wrote as follows, until com polled by weariness to desist : — My operation is performed. 1 felt no pain — only a slight pricking after the loss ot blood. At this moment my sister i> outride, knocking ; but I have .sent her away, saying 1 am busy, Luckily she does not insist upon entering. I can imagine no sweeter death than this. 1 lift my arm to let the blood How freely. , My head ,--wims--I am going to faint, The narrative stops theie. Fuad Bey could iirvei continue it. When tin; floor is at length broken open, which is not erlorted until his doath-oiy summons the household, lie is found there in his la&t a»onj . "Doctor," he says feebly to the Miigeon who tries to administer relief, ••u-i\e yourself no trouble, 1 have but five minute* to live/ And after a few moments of Fnad Bey breathed his last. A letter w;i» found addressed to the police, in which the deceased begged them to accuse no one of his death. He bequeathed his body to the School of Medicine for the purpose ot direction. In letters to his triends Fuad Bey declared that his mother had died in a mad state, and that doctors had t,old him that a like fate was in store for him. Thu.s, after squandeiing his fortune of .some £20,000 he resolved to kill himself. Fuad Bey was only .'52. He leaves a wife and two children- Beginning life as an om'cer, he ended ib as a journalist, for which hi< linguistic talents and his flex, ible intelligence peculiarly fitted him.