Beaver Press | 1909-04-23 | Page 5 | Was Determined to Die

was determined to die fearing arrest by the police a german named herman graft at marseilles se illes france recently opened the veins ot of both wrists with a knife finding that death was not coming to him with sufficient clent rapidity he fastened a cord around his neck a and n d hanged himself but tho the cord broke brok and he seized ills his knife and mado made a terrible gash in ills his throat even this did not end his life and as he staggered about the room ile ho heard the police coming upstairs after him lie he then opened the window and threw himself out falling from a height of three stories and breaking his neck on the footpath below