People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — TORN TO FRAGMENTS. [ARTICLE]

TORN TO FRAGMENTS.

A New Yorker Uses Dynamite as a Means of Suicide. Bingiiampton, N. ¥., Dec. 12.—A special to the Bingiiampton Republican from Walton says: Michael Davis, son of Joseph Davis, living in Marvin Hollow, near here, committed suicide with dynamite about 10 o’clock Sunday evening, literally blowing his body into thousands of fragments. The trees and bushes in the neighborhood of the suicide were covered with flesh, and at a distance and in different directions, both legs, one arm and the head were found. The head was found at a distance of about 500 feet, going nearly 300 feet before striking the ground the first time, and bounding nearly a dozen times in the other 200 feet