Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 8 | Wife Murderer Makes Attempt T Suicide

oo WIFE MURDERER MAKES ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BEAVER, Pa., July 1G. Charles Hickman, condemned to hang Tuesday for the murder of his wife In Fohruarv, 1910, almost succeeded In cheating the gallows last night by an attempt at suicide He had twice escaped from Jail and said he would again make his escape. Labt night two guards took him to a .lavatory upon his request, and when they heard a bodv fall they opened the door and found Hickman 1 I unconscious and tlve gas turned on. ft He had stood with his face to the jet inhaling the fumes f