Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1902 — GRAIN THIEF ATTEMPTS SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

GRAIN THIEF ATTEMPTS SUICIDE

Youth Bevers an Artery in an Endeavor to Escape Pontiac. Kankakee, 111., dispatch: William Bouchard, who was sentenced to the state reformatory for stealing grain from a local elevator, severed an artery of his leg in an effort to commit suicide. He said he would rather die than go back to the reformatory, where he had served a year before, because the prisoners had few privileges and were worked beyond their strength. He begged to be sent to Joliet penitentiary.