Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1909 — LIVES TO TELL IT [ARTICLE]

LIVES TO TELL IT

Drinks Polson, Stabs Himself, Cute Throat and Leaps from Window. Chicago, April 6. —Fighting with all the strength at his command, Indalicio Alcaron, who tried to commit suicide by drinking poison, stabbing himself a dozen times, cutting the arteries of his wrists, cutting his throat, and finally leaping from a third-story window, begged physicians at St Luke’s hospital to let him die. At times the man became violent and it required half a dozen internes to hold him. Although in a serious condition the victim is expected to recover. ’