Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-11-21 | Page 1 | He Offered to Kill Himself

HE OFFERED TO KILL HIMSELF Chicago, Nov. 21. Tired of trying to make out an existence, but wishing wish-ing to have "a good time" before he ends a life, a man who said his naai" was Robert Tyler, startled Pcs'.c Ser-gearnt, Ser-gearnt, O'Connor at the Harrison street police station la?l night, by offering of-fering to commit suicide for $2m. "I mean it." said the man. who had come to ask for lorging. "Yoi may think 1 m ciazy, but I'm not. it I any medical college in Chicago gaes I me $-oO I will agree that ruy Imdy I be given to it for di.-s'ction purposes, j Twa hundred dollars would enable mo to live like a king for about two weeks, and at the end of th-ii time I d be ready to quit here." The caller was abuu M years old. He was thinlv clad and bis Iramo shook from the damp, chilly atmosphere atmos-phere of the street. According to Ms own statement, his life has been a continuous record of failure. "The first thing I d do would be to eat a square meal." he told the police po-lice officer. .Sergeant O'Connor directed tne man to the municipal lodging bouse, wheie ho was given food aud shelter. .