| Show I DRAWS RAZOR OVER THROAT M W Wilcox Tries to End Life Today in a Tragic Manner WATCHED BLOOD EBB AWAY AWA Standing Before Mirror With Flowing Wound He Waits For Death When Taken to Hospital for CIlI Care le lie Pleads WIth Uh Surgeons lo 10 Finish the Job 30 this afternoon h physicIans M H W who was taken from time tho operating rm at that hour stated that the tho C cIa dlton of the tho patent patient was satisfactory His recovery was not Isec Te Th man Is still 11 in a precarious condition DespO lent he uS of 1 Iii health anI and business reverses M 1 W Wilcox aged aed 5 55 years and residing nt at liD north Main street where he a slashed his throat and andler ler left In C cm fearful about 1030 1010 th s morning Time le man Is now V at t St where Dr F 1 B Steele and other physicians are arc doln doIng al alt in their newer to save hi life Tim Th mans condition Is most critical and It ItIs Itis Is doubtful Ir If ho he nIll il Ive live Wilcox who rho I is a white haird haIred man and looks lo ks to it bo be at a least 60 6 years or of orage age locked In his room and standing In front o of n a drew limo tho thoe keen e o Ol am IL E n CI AM iI l S 11 d il E d il g mu a gas h tl that mut extended fl oni ear car to car rime h oln s nut severed ummil lime was cut lu luI but I it 1 little ll I flue fhe Ilar cut or of the throat and rondo mu lul hi II id I t wrist hut but tlc time blade hlade r ibex ItoL steed before tim th V mirror and let tho ho blood from lila his run nun Into a butet bucket until It a was ll In staggering toward Ilg be bed tim th bucket was overturned WHITES TO SONI LW Time Tho man Ia lied not ed an and I wa was attired In a suit o of After tl affectIonate fetonte n note te to lila his sot so V Inlaw F H E Barnum who hi I In tte tto Jaw J W office of Wedgwood Irvine he attempted self destructIon Ono or of orthe the tenants berd heard his gor groans ad and the tho police were notified Pt 10 I lInger Moor Moore with Patrolmen Heath and to tIme tho scene They found time the door locked but Heath man aged ed to push the key out of time the hole and unlock the door with a skeleton kc key Time The sight that met the gaze or of the was horrifying Tle TIme fleet was soaked wih wIth blood n as als also wn was the bed upon which tIme the man lay gasping for brath breath Wilcox 1 cox wa hurrie to the hospital nail while hying 1 i on the Ins table lie ho was a conscious conlous and repent cd emIly I bogged begged those abut about hint him to fin l tl time job Please finIsh tle tIme job for or me h lie pleaded Give me a gun and wil trill do I It I dont rant to Ivo live I la hay nothing to live tOI tom and want to el elDr dIe Dr Steele at once ordered him sent ent to St Marks Several months month ago Wilcox pi eha chased ed the property at north State Slat through A B Walon The hattie claims that Wilcox got behind In p pay payments ments and that hl ho Walton Valon tIme the man mono money from time to tIme In the note he wrote to Mr r Barnum Wilcox mado reference to famIly amly and pernal personal mator and sold that he had been swindled out or of 75 w cm lie he the piece He sold said ho understood that the contents were hi but found that hat the furnIture with a afew few ew exceptIons wits oed b tIme the ten tem tenants ants Since purchasing the place tim l health hM has ben been ver very poor pOOl and da day after day he became more Walton repeatedly stated state that W 11 Ii cox laid had had imad some trouble wih with hi his a son on antI and daughter r In imi this ct city but I is emphatically ally donle denIed b by thoe those who knet know of the man oren often called at th time law office to talk to his Mm MI Barnum and their relations al always Ij ways was most cral cordial and ho he soke spoke In en II terms of his ren The let lee letter leeor ter or was turned over to Aty Atty A B Irvine and he declined deline to make time tho contents contents V V |
