HUDSON, Amos
AMOS HUDSON
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 1 May 1891 p 1
Wingate, Ind May 1 – A young man named Amos or Aaron Hudson, cut his throat with a razor at this place last evening. Hudson is about 30 years of age, single and his home is in Newtown, but he has been working as a carpenter near Wingate for some time. For the past few days he has been drinking like a fish and night before last he was taken with the jimjams. Armed with a big butcher knife he started for his home in Newtown, whooping and yelling and brandishing his knife at the demons all the way. He would sometimes jump several feet in the air to get a good crack at one and from the way he laughed after such an exploit the persons who saw him judged that he got his game. Several travelers who met him were scared into “conniption fits” by his antics and it is not certainly known where he spent the time up to last night when he appeared at Wingate and proceeded to his room at the Boots Hotel. Those who saw him enter say that he was very despondent in appearance and it was not long until they heard him raising a racket in the room. Entering it they found him kicking about on the floor in a pool of blood with his throat cut from ear to ear. Dr. Hurt of Waynetown was summoned at once and when he arrived found that the wind pipe had almost been cut in two. He sewed it up as well as possible with two stitches and then took 13 stitches in the man’s throat to sew his head on. It was a ghastly job as Hudson attempted to talk all the while and his voice came out of the rent in his throat in a most spectral and deathlike manner, throwing gore all over the physician’s fingers. He managed to say that he was sorry he had cut his throat and then relapsed into a comatose condition. Dr. Hurt states that he will die as inflammation will set in and he will literally die “for want of breath.” ^^^ Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 2 May 1891 p5 Amos Hudson, who cut his throat with a razor at Wingate night before last while suffering fro the jimjams, is still alive. Inflammation has not set in and until it does he will live. ^^^ Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 4 May 1891 p 3 Amos Hudson, who cut his throat on Thursday night of last week, severing the windpipe continues to live. He is worse today, however, and it is thought that inflammation is setting in. As soon as it does he will die. He has lived beyond the expectations of all the doctors already. - kbz