Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-04-18 | Page 1 | Succumbs to Wounds

SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS Former Illinois State Attorney's Suicide Is Successful;While Conscious Con-scious Before Death He Expressed Regret For His Act Chicago, April 18. Formal Investigation Investi-gation by the coroner's Jury of the death of John B. W. Way man, former State's attorney, was scheduled to be held late today. Mr Wayman succumbed suc-cumbed to self-inflicted wounds early today, nine hours after he bad discharged dis-charged into his body two bullets from an automatic pistol irien into his keeping by Charles Lund, whom he was to defend on charges of killing kill-ing Edward Paul, a labor leader, on April 11 Wayman was conscious most of the time after the shooting and expressed regret for his act "I must have had sand in my gear box when I did thK' he told friends who were permitted to see him for a few minutes