Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Hacked Off His Own Limbs. [ARTICLE]

Hacked Off His Own Limbs.

Albert Raokpe, 25 years of age, attempted suicide with a hatchet in Chicago recently. He placed his left leg on a block of wood, and cut it off just below the knee. He then cut his left arm so that it hung by a shrod of skin only. After thia uo mattered himself on the head with the hatchet until he fainted. He was taken to the hospital, where he died. Firttx cents per pound is now the price (or aluminum in large quantities.