Show AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE a dave shields slashes a razor across his throat at 8 last als coura sred with life and its burdens in a at of eaid to have been brought on by constant but unavailing and discouraging efforts to secure employment with which to make en honest living and relieve financial burden under which he was laboring david shields in the presence 0 ins young wife at about 8 last evening crabbed it across hia throat almost irom car to ear and throwing the instrument acroca the room gave a groan reeled and all to the floor with blood lowing freely from tho eliast ly wound which lie bad inflicts it at his home or rather at the residence 0 hie mother in law on avenue between twenty ond and twenty third streets where the tragedy occurred the room was quite dark there being no light except a flim reflection 0 a lamp in the adjoining room a halt open door the young wife tat n a chair with her babe drewlyne it tor bed while trying to lend acme word of encouragement to her despondent ent husband who waa complaining pla ining of tho very prospects that there were tor him to obtain work ae indicated by unfruitful at kempte that he had made to do eo during the day when suddenly he took hia razor from a bureau and exclaiming the razors alie only thing that can fix me did ae described above before hie wife knew what he ans doing she screamed and people from the other room in the house came in with a light which revealed a ghastly sight the wounded lay stretched on his back on the floor in a pool of blood with a pale face and glacey ayee there were beveral women in the house and while ft was being summoned they did 1 they could to check the flow of blood pr condon arrived and immediately sewed up the cut which wae probably five inches long but wa not deep enough the physicians aid to injure the vital organs the thyroid gland and other branch being all that were cut into dr conroy also came soon after to the aid of dr condon and they worked bard to eave the young mans life which they were by no means eure of do ae cje had lost so much blood that hil body w as cold and it was believed tat he wae almost too weak to survive but placed in a yarm bed he rallied and rayed in agony about midnight be commenced reel ing more easily and bis sufferings Buffe rings were not in tene his condition continued to improve and now the physicians eay that he will lire shields ie 2 pars old and ie a druggist by profession lie worked for about two years in drug store and about three beare for driver and son but ha not had a position tor nearly a year lie has a brother john shielda Shi elde who is a brakeman brake mau on the union Paci it is said that he has three brothers two in pocatello and one in kranston Kv anston he has been living with his wife and two children for the past even months at the home of it is said that be drinking considerably until last ihring and since then has been very steady in work but in vain hi wife baye that lie has never been in any trouble with hie family but that hie worrying over the debts he owed wag the chief cause for his tragic action dave said she has been trying to get work all eummer and when he would come home without having received any encouragement he would bo all broke up he was away all day trying to find work na when he came home last evening he would not eat hie because he was eo downcast if had known what be wae doing I 1 would have taken the razor away from him lie owes debt that at times he would eay they almost drove hm road thi is not the first time he has attempted to take his life one night last spring he came home and had been drinking I 1 knew this and knew that he had intimated that lie would take his life and I 1 bid hie razor sure enough he acme in and tried to find it and then he took hie pocket knife and aa he started to cut hie throat I 1 grabbed it away from him and cut all 0 on it about two week previous to that time abue he was at ida he the same tiling and colored man prevented hm accomplishing it |