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Show TWICE ATTEMPTS TO MEM LIFE William Gilley First Jumps Into River and Then Slashes His Throat IT 11am G ley a laborer 50 years of gre tw ce attemp ed su cide last nig he f rs t me by jump ng nto the Jor dan r ver f om the F fth South st ee bridge and the second me by cut ne s t roat v,lth a pocket knife He was u successful in both attempts Excess ve drink! g which brought on de Hum rem ens promp ed G 1 ey to take h s life he adm ts Lar y n t e even ng as Gil ey was wa k g across the br dge accompanied b s wife and another vonian he sud den y leaped over the ra ng and fe 1 to he river twenty feet be o The cola water apparently quencl ed h s desire to end his fe and he swam ashore The po ce were not f ed at a man had jumped Into the ver but were unab e to ascerta a the Identity of the man at that time At 2 o c ock th s morning however the police were called to 615 South Eleventh West where a man was said to have cut lis throat Chauffeur O C B own and James Woodward and Jack Egbert c ty detectives responded in the po ce ambu ance Then t developed that G lev was the same man Who had jumpea into the r er B eeding profusely from a deep cut in h s throat G ley was taken to tho erne gency bosp ta where he w as a tended by Dr H. B Sprague who sa d that the vound was not necessar v fata G Ilev told he po ce that he had at emp ed 1 s fe four jears ao by cutt ng h s throat He sa d at de rlum trem ens had been the cause t en as now G 1 ey has seven ch ldren |