Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — NEGRO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

NEGRO ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

Cuts Throat with Kazor and Then Stabs Himself with Penknife. Wabash, Ind., July 8. —Bert Jackson, eighty-three years old, living five miles south of this city, attempted suicide by cutting bis throat with a razor, but did not sever his jugular vein. He then threw the razor down and stabbed himself with a Email pocketknife about fifty times in the neck, cutting entirely through the windpipe and it is not believed he can reeover. He had accumulated considerable property, but recently became mentally unbalanced.