Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — SAVES LIFE TRYING SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

SAVES LIFE TRYING SUICIDE

Man Shoots Himself While Temporarily Insane and Prevents Probable Fatal Surgical Operation. East St. Louis, 111., July 26.—1 n attempting to end his life by twice shooting himself in the mouth, when ten>porarily insane from being overheated, William E. Slawson, sixty years cured himself of a congestion of blood on the brain which would have required a surgical operation which probably would have killed him. , The bullets caused a hemorrhage from the brain and separated the blAod clots which had caused the congestion. The two bullets are still in Slawson’s head, but he does not feel them and his physician thinks they may not bother him.