Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — Insane Negro Tried to Kill Himself at Michigan City. [ARTICLE]

Insane Negro Tried to Kill Himself at Michigan City.

Sumner Lee, colored, janitor at the Michigan City Methodist church, was arrested and locked up because he made monkey faces at the members of the congregation. Before this he made an attempt to kill himself. He poured kerosene around the floor of his home and dragged hot coals from a stove onto the saturated wood. He then stabbed himself in the neck and beat himself over the head with a stove poker. His mother attempted to save him but failing, called the fire and police t departments, who rescued Lee and put out the fire. He was arrested and in the jail he tore the bandages from his burned head and made an unsuccessful attempt to hang himself.