Dr* Thatcher's Suicide

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Dr* Thatcher's Suicide Dr. E. C. Thatcher, a former physician of this city and well-known throughout southern Arizona, recently suicided at Ramona, Cali- fornia. The particulars of which are obtained from the San Diego Sun : He was addicted to the use of cocoaine. The proprietor of the hotel passed the doctor’s room and noticing blood on the floor, entered the room, and found the form of the doctor extended upon the bed. He was fully dressed, and from a wound in his throat was still slowly trickling a stream of blood. His head rested in a pool of the scarlet fluid, which had overflowed and run down over the white coverlet onto the floor. An examina- tion of the body showed that life was already extinct. On the bureau, just beneath the look- ing glass, was lying open a case of surgical in- struments and by the side of it was a long lancet covered with blood. It was evident that the doctor had stood before the looking glass, taken the lancet from the case and baring his neck had made an incision in the left jugular vein. Evidently fearing that this would not make the end certain he had made another incision a short distance to one side. Then lay- ing the lancet down upon the bureau he had walked to the bed, on which he had thrown himself and slowly bled to death. Mr. Ricker is of the opinion that he had not been dead more than a few moments when discovered.