Slave to Morphia.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 207, 5 September 1904, Page 2

Slave to Morphia.

DYING YOUTH'S STORY OV. MB, LAST HOURS. PARtS, July ig r Books and letters found on »*» table of Mr Norwald Shaoleirfi A? t'iiiludeiphia, the young mac who committed suicide in ?SL t-rand Hotel Dore mi »i,« n vai-d Muntmatre, 'reveal a w«i " story of montal debility and morbSSdeadly ° n by .'*• | The lotters showed that he bad j been a victim of tho morphine hib- 1 t for j ears, though he was only / nineteen, and that his mother *d / in fr^uuntl >' implored Mm to give it up. of ß °h?« ro i K iod he ® avo on account , of his last hours. Ho had bear ,*k reading works by Baudelaire and Schopenhauer, and had convinced ' himself, says the Herald," of the ' misery of life and the j 0 y and triumph to be found in death. At ton o'clock on Friday night he cut open the veins of his hands and . { ieet, having roari tint bleeding t* death was not implement. But he - began to suffer exquisite pain towards morning, and then trled to hasten tho end by swallowing soma • aconito and strychnine. By noon the - 1 agony hiud become unbearable, and he rang the bell. j,,

A waiter who entered the room was horrified to And the floor, bed. : choirs and tables covered with blood, t while the young man lay on the floor dying by inched, with a pillow/ under his head. A doctor was sum*moned, but Mr Shapleigh died at. three o'clock in the afternoon in terrible pain.

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