Show NOTED OLD VETERAN TRIES TO END LIFE Thomas Thom Baer of Bingham Horo Floro of Fr War Var In Dying Condition Aug Thomas Baer 65 years of age who was as decorated hy by Emperor Willlam I of German on be beIng hug Ing reported Ill by Marshal l Von ron fOI gall In battlo luring the tho var attempted to commit l suIcIde In his hi home lucre here at 11 this mornIng by br shashi lag ing hits his throat abdomen and loft left side with a razor Dr J F Flynn who attended Baer holds out hope for tho ho aged mans muns I Tue Tho old soldier placed placeda I Ia a battered looking On the tho I sat Bat clown ilowit so that lint he could follow the tho I movements o of hIs hands lii In lie mir mirror propped his foot up the tho log of the tho bed bcd wrapped his hut razor with cloth so that the tho handlo would not slip and then d to 10 cut cul lila his throat and side man ninny times limes I The first slash across the throat cut lie tho muscles of the nock neck fright frightfully full fully and severed a number of Small arteries but just missed the lie jugular vein Dr DI Flynn sewed twenty stitches In lie tho wound 11 lie tho throat Reeling hack and fOIth Baor slashed slash ml ed timo an anti d again at lie llio upper part of hIs hIE body hody whilo lie tho blood from his throat lie Ho cut a big wound In his left side and across his alido mon nien lIner Baor had boon living In a small town In Missouri until It few tew months ago when ho to to W to o coming hero from the latter place He was sick out of work and despondent lie He eked oula out a poor existence luring his short stay lucre as booster for a gamblIng ho house so Medals Medal and official papers found In his trunk showed that he hat had heen recognized by the lie em emperor emperor of Germany for heroism h and ho he received lie tho Iron ron Cross on of Von Moltke In the Fran war |