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Show FIGHTS POLICEMAN TRYING TO RESCUE NEW YORK, March 5. Believing that a patrolman who was trying to rescue him from committing , suicide by gas was a burglar, Martin Drath, an unemployed machiniat of 143 i Kourth avenue, forgot bis desire to I leave this world and sought to pre- I vent the supposed theft of peraonal I property. Jumping from the bed where he was awaiting death, he seised Patrolman Connaughton of the Kifth street station about the neck and it was only after a hard struggle that he. was subdued. Both were affected by the gas fumes which were pouring Into the room from an open et. When Lraih had been convinced that his visitor was a patrolman patrol-man instead of a burglar, Connaughton turned of the gas and opened the window. win-dow. According to the patrolman, Trath I said it was the second unsuccessful attempt at-tempt he had made within a week to end his life, which, he said, had become be-come wearisome to him because of the plight of his relatives in Germany and hi Inability lo get work. The other i time when lie tried to kill himself, also by gas, he said, he fell out nf bed. landing so hard on his head tht the pain caused him to give up the attempt for the time being. lraih wuj Ukea lo Bel lev us hospital. - |