Show S UNIQUE SUICIDE SUICIDES S METHOD FAILS S 5 Ed McCanns McCann's Fat Neck Saves Him From I tion AXE XE MERELY GASHED HIM HIMS v I Despondent e O or O et fl Domestic lIc IC Trouble Trouble- i. i S SI Signalman Tries to End JIb his Life LifeS S in Orl Original Manner r S 1 5 Despondent over his marital lola ida 0 1 Kd Ed 11 McCann for forty five O C years ears old olda I a signalman of the Oregon Short Line Lino 1 at Second South and Third Vest streets sti attempted suicide about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon by hy an nn Unusual unusual unusual un un- usual means that of rubbing his throat back and forth over ver o ho ho ed edge e 5 of an axe As he ho 1 Is s rather stout in r r build the axe which was not yer very verj sharp harp merely made mado several deep gushes hes in the fat fal of his neck ills His I wounds wound were dres dressed ell at nt the tho city Jail S hospital b by Police SUlt Surgeon eon Paul which he hc was removed remo to lo the L L. D D. S S. I hospital McCann has been In In inthe the thc employ oCI of oC the Hie railroad company for quite a number num nurn- I t ber I. I of years ar arand and was at nt one time a n aS S conductor on the road rond About a year car and nira a half a ngo o ho was vas run over er by an nn engine In the local railroad yards nad and his ills right leg was was CUt cul off above e the knee S About six Ix weeks ago aro McCanns McCann's wife S left leCt Snit Salt Lake lot for a visit with friends 5 In Minnesota ota McCann secured her hel herS S tee railroad transportation on which Ih she made the tho Journey Great was his sorrow orrow when ho he received S day that hl his wife hart hail begun proceed proceed- him This I ings Inis for fOl divorce against as news together with thoughts thou of his disabled condition cause e him to become very elY 55 downcast hen When h he be began beyan an his work y morning It was nR apparent that he had been drinking consider consider- ably At the hour named he went ent into Inlo the signal shack shad and anti attempted I to end his existence In th the manner described HI Ills His wounds Mounds nr are on only I of ot a HII slight ht Character and It Is expected that J he will viiI be he able abl to leaH e the hospital I in a short time |