People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Novel Method of Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Novel Method of Suicide.

Charlottesville, Va., May 7.—A singular means of suicide was adopted by Lewis Garrison, whose body was found yesterday near the University of Virginia. The autopsy disclosed the fact that the man had met death at his ovyrn hands by inserting in his body a piece of gas pipe filled with powder and slugs. This charge he exploded with a match. The lower part of his body was terribly mutilated.