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Show COSTVTCT ENDS LIFE BY CUTTING THROAT. V !- . SALEM. Or.. April 14. John Defalco, an Italian convict, who was serving a life senfence at the penitentiary for killing his 'wife In Portland on February 28th, committed suicide .Monday by cutting his throat and severing his windpipe with an Instrument known as a cell knife, with a blade about one inch. A doctor sewed up his windpipe.' but Defalco; In his determination de-termination to die, kept up a fierce struggle strug-gle until he tore the stitches loose and expired from loss of blood. He has been at ftre-prison only two weeks and has not spoken a word to any one since his incarceration. : , |