Show A ATTEMPTS TO ILL HI Charles Lockerman Confessed Murderer Slashes Wrists With Machine Scythe Special to The n I Beaver Ben April 30 Too 30 Too bad had I didn't l i make a better Job of or It It It was the simple slut sim I pie pIc statement o of Charles Lockerman n. confessed murderer In the tho count county Jail jai hero when he ho was wag found Cound yesterday bleeding from a dozen self inflict wounds after a futile attempt at su suicide sui sui- cide ride lie He had used a n section from a mowing machine scythe sharpened t ta to toa toa a razor edge and had sought to cu cut the arteries of or his legs and wrist li Ho He was at tho the point o of death eath and would havo have succumbed but for tor his hits fellow tellow prisoner Joe Dailey who Is Just finishing fin fin- a four tour mont months months' s' s sentence for assault as assault RS- RS sault with a deadly weapon Dailey placed about Lockerman's Lockerman arms and legs and had stay stayed ell ell- th the I flow tIow of ot blood before the arrival of ot Dr Shepherd The Tho deed was probably prompted u y the culmination of ot Lockerman A s trou bles blest which would have havo been been brought brough broughto t to a final Issue when Judge e Greenwood Greenwood Green Green- Greenwood wood conveyed convened today What court purports purports purports pur pur- ports to be bo his signed confession Is In Inthe Inthe 1 1 the hands of ot the district attorney Lockerman Is an old prospector 6 63 L years of or age who came cune to the now new gold old camp of ot Fortuna last summer During the winter he trapped In the tho Mineral range and through the killing of or a n deer leer b by his partner became In Involved involved In- In vol ed In a quarrel with Edward Stood watchman at the tho dine Cline ranch I twelve twel miles nilles northeast of ot Milford T To prevent squealing on his partner partner part part- ner ncr Lockerman Ills his confession sn says s 's was forced to the conclusion ho had hotter kill him It Is believed ed by b. of ot- ot that the old man Is feeble reeble- In minded |