Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Miller, George R. 1912
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 27 Aug 1912

Slashes Self With Knife

George Miller of Ronald Inflicts Horrible Wounds and Dies As Result.

Uses Small Knife to Cut His Throat, Wrists, Abdomen and Legs – Ill Health Given
as Cause for His Suicide – Died Monday.

George Miller, aged about 65 years and a resident of Ronald township, set about
to kill himself Monday afternoon and completed the job in thorough manner.  It
was one of the most cold blooded attempts at self destruction on record.  Miller
lived about a mile and a half east of the literary hall and he had been in ill
health for a long time, a sufferer from rheumatism and other troubles.

Monday he determined to end it all.  He secured a small pocket knife sharpened
for the purpose and going into the house he stabbed himself in the throat, then
went out on the back steps and sat down leaning his head over so that the blood
would not soil the floor.  He evidently had doubts that the wound in the throat
would suffice for he arose from the steps and cut himself across the back of the
left hand.  This cut severed the cords and his fingers closed tightly.  Then he
laid his hand on the block where they had killed chickens and struck it a blow
across the palm with an ax.  Before he died he stated that he had done this so
that his fingers would straighten out when he was laid out for burial.  These
wounds did not satisfy him and he severed the arteries in the other wrist,
stabbed himself slightly in the abdomen and slashed the arteries and cords under
his knees.  By this time he had inflicted all the wounds on himself he could and
shortly afterwards was discovered by neighbors and carried into the house.  

Carl Graves was one of those who assisted in carrying him in and to Mr. Graves
he stated that he has his nerve and intended to use it.  He also said that he
had not forgotten how to stick pigs and the wound in the throat was one similar
to many which he had given pigs in slaughtering.  It was from internal bleeding
from this wound that he finally died living about two hours after slashing himself.

Mr. Miller leaves a wife and child.  The funeral will be attended Thursday.

[Transcriber's Note:  There is a notation on the obituary card that he was
buried in North Plains Cemetery.]


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