People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — TOOK HIS OWN LIFE. [ARTICLE]

TOOK HIS OWN LIFE.

The Man Who Lashed. Farragut to the Mast Shoots. Wiuself. Vallejo, Cal., Oct. 19. —John Neil, a seaman in the United States navy • serving on board the- receiving ship In- ■ dependence, Mare Island navy yard, | committed suicide Tuesday morning by shooting himself in the head. The deceased was reprimanded Tuesday morning for having overstayed his leave of absence, and was punished by restriction to the ship for a period of sixty days. As soon as Neil received his punishment he was seen to go below into the: ship bagroom, where he was found 1 later with a bullet wound in his right temple. [The deceased was a man of unusual distination. having received medal honors from congress for bravery and. meritorious conduct, Neil enlisted in the navy in 1861, served with Farragut at Mc-bile bay, and lushed the immortal admiral in the rigging of the Hartford while he stood by his side throughout the fight. Since the war Neil has served continuously in the navy and was one of the survivors of the ill-fated Trenton, which went down in Apia harbor, and received general mention, for bravery in rescuing shipmates from the Vandalia, which was also wrecked in the: same gale.]