Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-15 | Page 4 | Sheriff Attempts to Kill Himself

SHERIFF ATTEMPTS TO KILL KILL- HIMSELF In Logan Lot n Friday Don C elected sheriff of Cache county count last lut November at- at attempted at attempted tempted to kill himself by using u a razor on his throat Following the election ho he h became becam ill anti and antia anda a few fey days ago 60 suffered a nerv nervous In des des ous breakdown resulting and nd melancholia Ills daughter seeing her father In the tile act ct of ot self destruction made mad an effort to prevent the use of the razor and was as severely cut T This ls Is one of o many similar cases c se throughout Ur the country In which men and women physically run rundown rundown rundown down become mentally depressed The Th one on mistake made Js Is I that thal all 11 the th doctoring is directed at relieving the th physical phy ic l and but lit little tie tle treatment is I given ghen the mental Perhaps there Is not a n patient of that kind who cannot be quieted and brought out of ot the gloom by anyone anone trained in soothing mental disorders One On great treat misapprehension on onIbe Ibe p part rt of ot those afflicted Is il the fear of o Insanity There Ther is i no breakdown of the th mind and there will behon benone be tone none hon It H the th undue undu alarm can be overcome In fact Insanity does not take possession It Is desperation with Its hallucinations which Is li not permanent and It can cane e overcome Once One restored to mental equilibrium the tb patient once more mor becomes rational nn