Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — SLAYER TRIES TO KILL SELF [ARTICLE]

SLAYER TRIES TO KILL SELF

Corporal Who Shot Captain Dives Into Steel Bars. Des Moines, la., July 9.—Corporal Lisle Crabtree, slayer of Captain John C. Raymond, commanding officer Troop B, Fort Des Moines, tried to commit suicide in his cell.

Crabtree leaped headforemost against the steel bars. He repeated this a half dozen times before he was seized and placed in irons.