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Show IDAHO BANK ROBBER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Notorious Convict in Boise Prison jumps From High Platform in Effort to Die. BOISE, Ida., March 16. While sunning himself on a platform Inside the new cell building: at the penitentiary yesterday afternoon af-ternoon about 6:20 1 o'clock, Robert M. Meeks, the notorious convict under heavy sentence for bank robbery committed at Montpelier In 1897. climbed to the top of the wall by means of trestle work and Jumped to the ground below, a distance of thirty feet, with the intention of committing commit-ting suicide. He struck on his oack, sustaining: sus-taining: injuries, the full extent of which have not yet been ascertained. Meeks tried to escape on the afternoon of February 2nd, by dashing: through the prison gates and heading for the hills, but was stopped by a bullet in the left legend leg-end sent to the hospital, where that member mem-ber was amputated above the knee. He returned to the prison last Friday and was placed in the hospital ward. On Christmas eve, 1901, Meeks escaped on one of the prison horses, but was recaptured. re-captured. He is supposed to be mentally weak. |