Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1918 — ARE DOOMED FOR WORKHOUSE [ARTICLE]

ARE DOOMED FOR WORKHOUSE

Frustrated Suicides In New Jersey Are Sent Up by Police \ Magistrate. Trenton, N. J. —Despondent saloonkeepers will be committed to the workhouse by Magistrate Geraghty if they fail in attempts tp kill themselves. An example was furnished recently when Michael Curley, at one time the proprietor of a prominent drinking place in the city, was sent to the institution to serve three months because he tried to drown himself in a creek. He was pulled out in the nick of time by a policeman. When arraigned in court, clad only in a blanket, Curley delivered a brief speech in which he said: “I am sober, all right. I attended a funeral a few days ago, and then decided there was nothing more to live for, so I jumped into the creek. No one cares for me, and Tm just in the way.”