Deseret Evening News | 1903-01-09 | Page 3 | It Was Too Cold

IT ir WAS TOO COLD conn And Ind So Youn Young Man flan Did Id Not hot Suicide By fly Drowning St Louis Loul Jan 8 Three hours crul e on an an Ice Sloe noc In the frigid waters of oC the Mississippi river drove all nil thought thou ht of suicide from Crom the tho despondent mind of Decker 17 Ii 1 years old and tired of or life lICe because he was wag carping no more than that t 1 a I week w k as a I printers devil Rudolph had jumped Jump Into tho the river with wah r th the tho th Intention of at ending nil all of oC his 1111 Imaginary troubles but after aCter he lie had ha hl been iten caught by 1 a I drift of ot Ice which carried him helm back to the shore h hI he clanged changed his mind naiad and concluded that life on U 11 4 a I week was la preferable to drowning In hr freezing Crep water sisters who were ere tre Informed of ar his hla attempted suicide thought It itens was ens a n good Jolt Joke and laughed heartily The flee silly billy sill little thing said one ane t I winder wander If he knew keen how hen Ilo cold coIl the water ater was