Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1913 — Unique Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Unique Suicide.

. A safe was used -by a man named Jacob Rabinowitz, fifty-four yeats old, of Philadelphia, Penn., to commit suicide, a few dayß ago. Frst he -jacked up an 800 pound safe with a block of wood. Placing his head beneath it he drew a strap as tightly as he could around his neck. Then he knocked the block from under the safe and the heavy weight fell upon his head. He was found by his wife, but died before a physician arrived. He had been despondent for several weeks because he lost a lawsuit