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Show WITHOUT V70RK, riflN ENDS LIFE Despondent Shirt Cutter Commits Suicide After v Trying to Kill family. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.Isaac ' Cohen, a shirt cutter, aged 2 years, last night ended his life after attempting; to kill his wife and three-year-old daughter- ' , - - Cohen was out of work and despondent. despond-ent. . He returned home this afternoon and wanted his wife to commit suicide 'with him. She refused and ha- tried to choke her to death, but she escaped. He then locked himself up in the bed-room bed-room with his daughter, and the wife summoned the assistance of her sister-' sister-' rn-law. ' - ... i s When the latter entered the house Cohen, pushed his child from his room and relocked the door. . The sister-in-law noticed the odor of gas, but paid little attention to It, and ' left the house with the little child. Three hours later Cohen was found dead in his room. He had taken carbolic car-bolic acid and opened four gas jets. |