MANY FAILURES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXI, Issue 2721, 21 November 1910, Page 3

MANY FAILURES.

A DETERMINED SUICIDE

An instance of the most obstinate and repeated attempts at suicide, which were crowned with success at last, is furnished, according to the Temps, by a man aged 44, at Rheins. A month ago he made his first attempt by throwing himself into a canal. He was rescued by another man, whom he abused for saving him, and said that he would be-

gm over again. A few days later, in fact, he tried to hang himself in a public park with a cord, but it broke, and he fell to the ground. He then took out a revolver and fired two shots, one into his head, and another into his chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he recovered, and was discharged. His next act was to go to the railway station, armed with a revolver, with the intention of shooting himself on the track as an express was arriving. His idea was that, even if the bullets failed to do their work, the express would not miss him. He did as he intended, and just as the express was appioachmg the station he stood on the edge of the platform and hred five shots into his mouth. But instead of falling forward as he had expected, he fell back, and was once more taken to the hospital. Not one of the five shots in his mouth had been fatal, and he begged the doctors to let him die. As no attention was paid to his request, he seized a knife from one of the attendants and plunged it twice up to the hilt into his abdomen. But even these wounds failed to be fatal, and the hospital surgeon stitched them up. Finally the man tore away all the wadding from his bandages, and swallowed it. He then drank as much water as he could, which so inflated the wadding in his stomach that it caused his death. He had swallowed about a pound and

a-quarter ot cotton,