Show he wanted to die jacob bai a cabinet maker who has been in ane employ of barratt bros for several years made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to take his own life yesterday afternoon bai is a german and is forty five years old H ha always been a sober and industrious man and baa a wife and four children who reside in a comfortable home in llie eleventh ward so far ag big friends knew his domestic relations to be happy but it seema chaton wednesday he quarreled with his wife the altercation must have been a serious one for when he arrived at the work shop yesterday morning lie appeared to be despondent and brooding over something after a time he produced a pistol and announced his intention of killing himself his fellow workmen promptly took the weapon from him he quit dvork and commenced drinking 0 littly shortly after 2 be went into the wave saloon on main street an 1 took a he then walked to the berr of alic saloon and walked up the stairway leading to the second floor when he reached the landing he drew 1 pistol placed the muzzle in his mouth and anred the barkeeper bar keeper and oie men aho vho wore in tha place rushed roade rear time to see the un man tamble to the floor with the revolver in his hand aad lie blood gushing from his mouth officer harry lyons waa jooa on the seme and bai was taken to lie police station by the timo he ar riv d there be was very weak from loss ot blood but was perfectly conscious the wound io his mouth prevented him arm talking but when asked hia name he seized a piece of paper and wrote it dr meacham boon and upon examination be found that tha ball had shattered the wall of the right jaw and ranging upward looped against a bone in the region of t n temple the physician gave it as his opinion abat the man would recover aija a little later he was taken to hia hame herald i |