Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1912 — WIFE FIGHTS TO SAVE SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

WIFE FIGHTS TO SAVE SUICIDE

Found Exhausted Beside His Body After Struggle to Prevent His Act Falls. • Chicago.—A wife’s desperate efforts to restrain her husband from committing suicide, proved futile when Joseph McMahon, 56, of 42 East Oait stret, swallowed carbolic acid and cut this throat in a fit of despondency. Neighbors, who heard the wife’s cries as she struggled with her husband, found the body on the kitchen floor with the exhausted wife beside iL McMahon had been ill for several weeks. His wife was aware he had become despondent. When he arose from bed she followed him, and saw him take a bottle of cdrbolic acid. Mrs. McMahon knocked the bottle from her husband’s hand, but he had already swallowed some of the acid. In the struggle some of the drug half blinded him. In spite of his wife’s desperate struggles McMahon reached the kitchen, where he seized a carving knife and cut his throat.