Show TRIED TO To CHEAT THE HANGMAN Car Barn Murderer Makes Two Attempts at Suicide 4 t HIS CONDITION PRECARIOUS 4 NEXT FRIDAY THE ms HIS I EXECUTION t Ch April er r thy bf bC th the c r condemn condemned d to dIe on the gallows Fri da day two desperate attempts at suicide toda today His Hla condition us as a re result suit sult Is so precarious that It Is 15 feared he be will sill not survive Should he still sUII be alive next FrIday he will be car carrle to the gallows and executed planned his attempted suicide carefully First he masticated and swallowed wed the heads of s vent lIvo or sUlphur matches While the ph phosphorus was burning his stomach h he sawed at the artery of his left wrist with II a sharp pointed lead bead pencil Striking a bone In th the wrist hI he gave up trying to sever the artery und and turned his hili wea weapon on to the larger vein on the outer side of oC his left forearm and with Ith jabs and a seesaw motion he lacerated l the hash and muscles of the arm And tore open the veins leav leaving Ing J a large Jarge jagged wound exposed through which the blood gushed In streams dyeing hIs bed clothing and running down dOll over the celt cell In l pools S Slipped the Bandages Ills IUs second attempt came after the had bad beed closed and dressed b by the tho police pollee physician was lying apparently unconscious in the I ho hospital under a 8 guards care ais right arm and hand were bidden by the bed clothing and with hardly a motion lie he slipped d the ban bandages dages off his left lert arm and with his sharp finger nails tore the threads s in the wounds and Inserting his forefinger Into the f holt hole ho he worked again at the veins and sought to reach the arter artery lie He ut red a and made a convulsive movement whIch attract attracted ed tire the attention of the physicians nurses and the guard uarl and on throwing back the the attendants saw With horror that had torn away the bandages and reopened the wound opened his eyes and with A leering smile exclaimed l I Let me die doe doc go away and let me medie die dlf You Were almost too late lat the fi first t tune time Now why hy do you tr try to save m my life l lost t a great quantity of oC blood and was almost s for u a time The most danger however Is that the poisonous phosphorus phosphorus lies hal burned him so severely that thai his Ills cannot be saved for its snuffing on the gallows got his idea of swallow swallowing swallowing ing phosphorus when a prisoner in the jail committed suicIde In that manner f while ler was awaIting trial For the last twO weeks has haM been saving the matches ire he was able to beg He gave lIP pp smoking to tome some me extent so he could hoard them In getting at the veins and arteries In his arm lie first SAWed three gashes Then lie he pushed the sharp end ot of a apt pt Into one so It would pass under the other veins eins Then he twisted the around and around until the veins were twisted d and burst In do doIng doing Ing this the l was broken into several pieces first attempt at sui suicide chic cide was nearly successful A letter written by prIor to the attempt at suicide was found in hi his cot In the r the writer ter In expressed repent repentAnCe repentance AnCe of his careEr and regrets leaving the few who ho have loved him but chief l by the thc setter tetter Is a morbid glorification of the wrIters Titers courage and his loyalty to hIs hs kind In contrast with Nelder Kelder associate Gustav Marx The letter sa says II His Four Reasons There are four reasons wh why I should take my own life liCe of the public boast that I cannot suicIde while I am so closely guarded I cannot cheat the scaffold th they sr say the they I executed me and ma made t me ate pay for a crime have Another mystery for the Ignorant police to solve The letter concludes as follows It seems Very plea pleasant ant to have the everlasting enjoyment or of rest I Rm am an atheist and do not believe In an any re religion ligion lon Signed PETER |