Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-09-08 | Page 5 | Attempted Suicide

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Swit sers brother sends a message to chief p police chief ot police received a telegram from louis a brother ot adolph the man who attempted to commit suicide at tho reed hotel tuesday evening instructing th a chief to his brother to philadelphia abere tho telegram stated he had brothers and sisters living at the tithe the telegram was sent louis did not know that his brother had made an attempt to end his life and telegram has been sent informing him this morning he doctors who are in charge of the man report that he la in a condition with every prospect ot although ho la still despondent and says that he ants to die A rained nurse stayed with and thatched him throughout the night to see hat he did not make another attempt ft hlll himself as it was feared that if he should bo left aloner he might remove iho bandages about hl throat and reopen the wound dr eghan says that thera is no question now but that the man was de minted and that the hallucination under which he labored at the time that be jo kill himself was not temporary aside from his mental trouble is a physical wreck and hla body is distorted from rheumatism of the joints his ands and limbs presenting a pitiful alg t at times he believes that some one is trying to got at him to kill him and he says that he knows they are coming it able to be moved the man alu be taken to the ogden general hospital but his condition this morning was not such as would warrant his being moved