Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — WILL NOT TRYIT AGAIN [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT TRYIT AGAIN

Woman Who Tried to Commit Suicide Has a Very Remarkable Escape. FLUNG HERSELF OVER A CUFF Couple of Broken Kibe Her Only Damage Death of a Mother in Israel—State Notea. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 20.—Following a family quarrel Mrs. Crum West, a young woman of twenty-five, and the daughter of Rev. John W. Utsler, hurled herself from the top of a thirty-foot cliff near her home north of Muncie, into a gravel pit, and was thought to have been killed. The supposed dead body lay in the pit guarded by friends of the family while the arrival of the coroner was awaited. The woiunn suddenly regained con sclousness, sat up and hurried to her home. When the coroner arrived hi-* assistance as a physician was used in setting two or three fractured riba Mrs. West said she was sorry for what she had done, and would hever again attempt to take her life.

She Died in the Faith.

Muncie, Ind., Oct 20.—‘‘I have been in many a storm, but Christ as my pilot has always carried me safely through,” said Mrs. Sarah Jane Wllkonsen, of Royerton, in giving her Christian testimony at a meeting in the Normal City Methodist church. She then seemed to totter as If faint, and sank back into her seat, dying a few minutes later. Mrs. Wilkonsen was seventy-five years old and had been speaking about three minutes, having just given the concluding words of her testimony when death came. Why He Was Left Off Easy.

Muncie, Ind., Oct. 20.—Although 18 was admitted by all sides concerned that Nicholas Crozier, a well-known citizen of Eaton, shot Harry Estep, a weak-minded youth of that place, Crozier was merely found guilty of as•avlt and battery and was fined a dollar and assessed the costs by a circuit court jury. Estep, the evidence showed, annoyed a daughter of the defendant, and one night last summer came upon the porch at the Crozier home and frightened the girl. The young woman’s father, summoned by her screams, appeared with a shotgun and ■hot Estep. The young man was seriously wounded but finally recovered. ••See How Great a Matter.” Etc. Muncie. Ind., Oct 20. —At the home Of Charles H. Anthony, a servant, who bed been instructed to have a steak “well done,” teverdid her part and set the steak on fire. Two fire departments were called out to subdue the blaze la, the kitchen. The damage was noS large. '■