Show gambling losses spur draftsman V V 9 bl ff to take his we lifo horse player gets sore keck after five attempts to die in car CH CR OSSVILLE TENN A de spon dent d altsman from gan III abashedly confessed to police that he was unable to kill himself after a fruitless hunt for death during a bizarre cross coun try motor tour in his automobile he HP told what state patrolman charles johnson called a fantastic story of seeking suicide oil on a cross country motor tour I 1 wanted to make it look like eke an accident so my wife could collect my insurance johnson quoted him four or five times since he left waukegan bassart said he tried to end his life he ile drove recklessly he speeded on hairpin curves he passed on hills he tried to race trains to a dead heat at crossings nothing happened what capped hassard a failure ac dually was more or less of an ac aident he said slips off embankment his car slipped oft off a 70 foot cm em ban kment the car landed upside down in a tree with bassart still fait in it he climbed out and to his amaze ment couldn coulden t find a real scratch on him disgusted he hid bid in the woods meanwhile authorities sought the victim of the car found dangling on the tree seven miles from here bassart went to a farmer s house pleat overnight there and called Cf Cr ossville police his deci decision slop to commit suicide he said stern stemmed med from a number of reasons mostly horses of which ahe he ramblingly spoke he had been a draftsman he said until he was named adminis of the estates of two of his cs es who died about four years ago plays horses then he became a horse player and carried on a stamp collecting business on the side he did well at horse betting too for a while he used what he called a comic strip system the system collapsed shortly also he said a friend who owned a stable kept giving him bum tip tips finally he was down to his last 23 he told his wife ife he was going on a business trip Cr ossville police sent bassart to uplands sanatorium sanit orium um here doctors said he could be released any time because his only injury was a pos sible sare sore neck |