Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 502, 21 January 1902 — TWO VICTIMS OF EXPLOSIONS BLEW OFF HIS HEAD WITH DYNAMITE [ARTICLE]

TWO VICTIMS OF EXPLOSIONS

BLEW OFF HIS HEAD WITH DYNAMITE

SEATTLE. January !o.—The ghastly trunk of an unidentified man was found in one of the residence digit uis today, the evidence tending to show that he had committed suicide by placing a stick of dynamite in his mouth, w-.th a fuse attached. He then lay down on the ground, lighted the fus«* and calmly waited the explosion which ended his life. l hole fifteen inches deep marked the place where his head had rested. Not a vestige of the skull coald be found and the trunk presented a terrible spectacle. There is no clew to his identity.