The Kimball Graphic

Wanted to Die.

At 2 o'clock the other afternoon Officer Sam Allen, of San Francisco, found Louis Styeh, a negro, looking at his lifeblood flow from two ghastly wounds on each wrist, at Ger's lodging house at the southeast corner of Stockton and Pacific streets, says the Chronicle.
The man was taken to the receiving hospital.
Styeh was a cook on the steamer Australia, and on February 13 last was at Honolulu, where he had trouble with his waiters. He went ashore and on going aboard again was assailed by four of his men, who had waited for him in the dark. He had originally gone through the world with only one eye, but when the quartet of assailants had finished with him he was entirely sightless and the galley saw him no more.
Deep insult was added to brutal injury when he was arrested for assault and taken ashore, going to the Queen's hospital, where he remained two months. There was no hope for him and he finally drifted to San Francisco, but being blind he could get no employment, and his money soon disappeared, leaving him on the verge of starvation.
As a last resort he secured a razor and slashed himself across the wrists, severing the arteries. When discovered he was holding his hands over a basin, fearful of splashing blood over the furniture, and doing his best to die with dispatch. "I will make a better job of it next time," he said doggedly as he was being conveyed to the hospital.