The Ouachita Telegraph - Julian Andrea Commits Suicide Date: Aug 2001 Submitted by: Lora Peppers ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, March 9, 1889 Page 3, Column 2 TIRED OF LIFE. Julian Andrea, an Italian Laborer, Commits Suicide. He Seeks a Watery Grave in the Ouachita Near Capt. Cann's Place. Julian Andrea, an Italian laborer who came here last week to work on the Houston, Central Arkansas and Northern Railroad, committed suicide last Monday by drowning himself in the Ouachita river just below Capt. Cann's place. After arriving here he was assigned work at the camp below Capt. Cann's and went down immediately, but after getting to the camp he acted in a strange manner leading to the suspicion that he had committed some grave crime. He seemed to fear detection, arrest and punishment, and it is reported that he was heard to say that he preferred to die. No particular attention was paid to these remarks at the time, however, and no one thought that he seriously meditated suicide, but Monday he put his threats into execution and an end to his life as above indicated. Dr. C.W. Hilton, the coroner, was at once summoned and he went down Tuesday and held an inquest, returning home Wednesday. To Dr. Hilton we are indebted for these facts. # # #