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Show Pleasant View Woman Grows Despondent; Attempts Suicide Mrs. Alice Rambaud Slashes Ankles and Wrists in Attempt to End Life. She Leaves a Note to Her Physician and Tells Friends She Is Tired of Life. Mrs. Alice Rambaud attempted to take her life at her home in Pleasant View ward Wednesday morning about 10; 30 by slashing her legs about the ankles and also slashing her wrists with a razor. . She left a note addressed address-ed to Dr. E. O. Hughes written in French inwhlch she stated that she was tired of the struggle and wanted to end it all. She has not been in the best of health for several years and it U believed this together with con-sidrable con-sidrable worry over her trials of keeping keep-ing the home going caused her attempt at-tempt on her own life yesterday.- She is about 50 years of age and has three sons who range from 16 to 21 years of age. One of these sons was married a few months ago and left for California and a little later another son went to the same state. She was not in hard circumstances but It was quite a hard task for her to keep everything going on the small farm and all in all life became be-came quite) a burden to this poor mother. Her husband died in the fall of 1914 and since that time she has been compelled to manage the affairs of their household and has not been in the best of health during those years. She told one of the neighbors i early in the morning that' she was going to commit suicide. The neighbor neigh-bor tried t opersuade her not to do this rash act. She sent her son over to the neighbors neigh-bors and he asked Mrs. Fred Ferguson Fergu-son to telephone the Provo General hospital for a physician, "while he was away she attempted to take her own life. When the boy reached home he found his mother on the floor bleeding profusely from the ankles and wrists. He hurried over to the nearest neighbors, I. D. Lott's, and notified' them and they notified (Lafe Baum and Fred Ferguson" and the neighbors after telephoning to Dr. B. G. Hughes rushed over to bind up the bleeding limbs. Dr. Hughes reached reach-ed the house in a short time and took several stitches in the wounds and bound them up and stated today that he felt that if nothing unexpected happened hap-pened she would pull through all right. Several of the neighbors state that she is not Insane and in talking with her last evening at her home stated that she never talked more rational. She had some money coming according accord-ing to reports and had been trying to get this money and was unable to get it at once. i |