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Show FORMER LIEUTENANT j TAKES HIH Lift! Clarence A. Outzen, Fail-1 ing to Kill Himself Un- ! tier Car, Cuts Threat. M'icr un unsuccessful attempt to end Ms life bv throwing himself under an incoming Murrav street ear at Fourth South and Main street late last il-Clarence il-Clarence A. uulzen. of KichncM. I tali, until rccentlv a first lieutenant m the j dental corps of the A. K. V. '" France, committed suicide early this morning bv slashing Ms throat from ear to car , and cutting the tendons and i lesli u his left wnst with safftv twor RiHj . iu his room in the Daly hotel, .0 Last Third Sntnh street. I 1,-i'e l-.si ni"!it a man, who has sunt been 'identified as Out.en. waited oil; the comer of fourth South and -Main street until a Murray street ear going j south on Main street at a fatrlv fast I rate started to turn east at lotirthj South street. As the car began to make its turn the man suddenly ran to the track and three' himself before the car. The motormnn stopped the car ill tunc. so that only the wneeis oi mi-truck mi-truck touched the man. Vitll a quick movement the man .lumped from under the ear anil sUout-in" sUout-in" to the moiornmii that he was all ri:7hf still-ted to v,alk rapidly north on Main slrcct. Ho was stopped by 1 ii-trolntiiu ii-trolntiiu David fines, who searched hi in, diseoverine; ;i few small pieces ot money. Outzen then continued on his itiiv up the street. . Shortly afterward a call was received at the police station from the Paly hotel. Outzen was found lying on the floor ot his room with his throat and wrist slashed. While on the way to the emergency emer-gency hospital in the ambulance, Outzen died. c?. Detectives Rov Darsen ana illlam Jst. .lohn searched Out.en s room and identification identi-fication papers were found. The clothes worn by Outzen were torn and the back of the coat ripped into shreds where the street car struck luni. Jn Ilia room were found a hypodermic needle and a quantity of narcotics, the detectives say. Out7.cn has three brothers, all of whom were in the armv. Two have been discharged dis-charged and one is still in the service. Pie is the son of Henry Outzen, former lmivor of Richfield. . I-lenrv Outzen, Jr.. a brother, Is said to have killed himself two years ago m Marysvale. |