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Show I - I 1 INSANE MAN TRIES 13 ' SUICIDE IN VAIN J M 4 Park Clty' Auff" 9- Karly this H a ? morning Tim Hanley, a resident of rl it thls c,t' tempted sulcldo by cut- I J tins hlB thrat with his pocketknife. I 3 1 Hanley's mind iB somewhat affect- I 1 ed, but his friends here did not pay I 'if an-v aention lo nIm as they did not I lB J suppose that he was at all dangerous. I J v Tbe man wae nD0Ut town yoster- I 9& I day and called at the Western Union 1 if Telegraph office, where he talked to i "3 f the agent about sending a message to 1 $ his sister, Mrs. Julia Clawson, at I j Leadville, Colo , a8 he said that he I ,"a ; was in need of money and that she j ! would send it to him, but when in- ? i formed that he would have to pay i for the sending of the telegram he J $ replied that ho had no money, but jS ; ' Uiat ho would get It and return. He "ll spoke to several of his acquaintances M about getting money enough to send J ; the message, but none of them paid jH any attention to him, as they sup- ' ' i posed he was rambling again. -Q ' This morning he made his way to fuejH J the Catholic church, where ho tried a Jg 1 to get in, but the doors were locked tngj i and so he returned to the sidewalk he" and sat on the church steps He took a ! off his shoes and slashed his throat. 3' jr Dipping his fingers he scrawled his 'o? ; r ilrBt name. "Tim," on the step and "" r then rapidly walked away. Several ' $ i people in the neighborhood Baw what beJj I went on and the officers were at once 'M I notified and a search for the man was ll3jj made. He was found near the Cre- 32 ole mine, a distance of more than a t$l mile from -whore the cutting was a"l ' done. egg ' He was terribly weak from the loss r?P of blood and It was feared that he i$8 -would die, but when the physician ar- tfj T rived It was found that the wounds 38 I were not dangerous and the gashes fa wore at once sewed up HH I He is being cared for at the city fi J hall and after he Is sufficiently re- H J covered from tho effects of the cut- S ' ting ho will he tried for his sanity. H f Hanley Is about 31 years of age j and has been here for more than a H month. |