Show i WIDDY FAILS IN SUICIDE P PACT ACT Burns Bums BUl Throat With Acid Jumps J in Well Vell Rescued GRAFTON W. W Va Vat Aug 6 By 6 By The Associated As Press Her Press Her throat burned with acid so that she could not cry out Mrs Gertrude Janes 50 SO stood in In a 0 water well throughout the night with only her head above wa wa- water ter and this morning was rescued 13 hours after she had thrown herself Into the well ell The woman was sald to have swallowed lowed the acid last night In a a- first attempt to end her life She then went to the well and Jumped into It but the water vater was not deep enough to completely immerse her Rendered nearly voiceless by the acid burns she he stood erect her head free making only gurgling noises in her threat throat Other residents of ot her farm home were not alarmed by her absence during the night and the sounds she made mad did not attract attention until this morning when two women went to the well The gurgling was In Investigated In in- and Mrs Janes was found still standing erect and keeping her head above e the water While her mouth and throat were badly burned physicians said the woman was not In a critical l condition and probably would recover Despondency was said to have resulted re resulted re- re resulted In the two t attempts at suicide Mrs airs Janes Janessa a a. widow lived with willi her two children on a farm near here |