An Unparalleled Suicide.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 17, 24 February 1894, Page 23

An Unparalleled Suicide.

It remained lor a Yankee I joy in Connecticut to devise a method for ending his life, which hits in all probability never had a parallel Reproved or punished for some trifling offense he went 1,0 his father's barn and spent throe days in rigging up a guillotine, with whieh he .successfully boheaded. himself. lletween a pair of grooved uprights he fixed a Ini toiler’s cleaver sharpened to a ragorlike edge. This he weighted «>:i lop with a box of -scrap iron and si one weighing 000 pounds. From the top of the uprights to the bottom the distance was five feet, and the cleaver was held in posflion at the top by a rope reefed through u pulley and held by a wooden level four feet in length. On the end of this lever he hung a tin pail, in the bottom of whieh a small iiolo’ had first been bored. The pail was filled ‘ with water, whieh slowly dripped through the hole in the bottom. After, these arrangements had been completed, the lad placed his neck between the up-» rights directly in line with the cleaver. [ When the water in tile pail had nearly. all escaped the lover flew up. the rope was released and the sharpened blade fell like a flash. The head of the suicide • was cut off clear and clean / • , Press.