The record-union., 1894-03-07
BENT ON COMMITTING SUICIDE.
W. S. Lloyd Makes Another Attempt
on His Life.
Distrustful of Poison. and Deprived OF
His Knife, He Leaps Into
the Rushing River.

Considerable excitement was created
along the river front yesterday by the at
tempt of a man named w. S. Lloyd, o.
years of age, to drown himself
He went out upon the railroad bridge
and leaped into the murky river in plain
view of number of persons who were
crossing the bridge at the time. The act
was also witnessed by persons on the
shore, who gave the alarm.
Several men leaped into boats moored
to the bank and pulled out into the mid
die of the stream to rescue the would be
suicide, but he had dritted down nearly
TO the foot of l. street before they sue
ceeded in hauling him out of the water.
AT first he tried to swim, but soon gave
that UP. A boatman known as Jack"
caught him by The collar and towed him
| TO the landing
Lloyd was nearly dead from cold and
strangulatIon when taken to the Receiv-
ing Hospital, but Acting City Physician
! Ogden was soon on hand and the man
speedily revived.
A FORMER ATTEMPT.
That was not the first attempt that
| Lloyd had made to kill himself On the
10Th of January last he was seen to stag
! ger and fall in front OF the Mechanics
Exchange, on L street, and was taken TO
the Receiving Hospital, where City Ply
sician Terry attended him and brought
! him through.
He stated that he tried at three drug
stores on j street to purchase strychnine.
but was refused at each, but somewhere
one X street he succeeded in purchasing
! a bottle. His board had been paid up 10
that day, but he had no money and had
never begged, and never intended to do
so, so he made up his mind to go where
| his bones would never be found and COM
! nit suicide.
Taking the strychnine and an apple, he
went over to Washington, and sprinkling
liberal dose of the poison on the apple,
he ate it. After waiting some hours, and
| feeling no ill-eifects, he came back to the
| city and got a cup of tea at a restaurant,
and shortly afterward began to feel the
effects Of the poison, with the result
described.
| six miles from Bangor, Me-, but had not
heard from them for two years. He had
been cattle man in Montana for some
years, but because Of disease in his leg
sembling dropsy had become unable TO
work, and had spent all his money with
the doctors. He insisted that it was no
use to save him, for he would make a
sure job OF it at the first opportunity.
THIS TIME WITH A KNIFE.
Lloyd appeared to be otherwise rational,
and after being detained over night he
was allowed to leave the Jail. On the fol-
! lowing day he walked into the police sta
ton and asked to see the night jailer.
Asked what he wanted with him, he re-
piled that he wished him to sharpen a
knife for him. Jailer McManus took the
knife and began to sharpen it, when he
bethought himself to ask Lloyd what he
wanted it sharpened for, and the latter
answered that he wanted to cut his
! Lloyd's) throat with IT,
| McManus then put him in charge of
| Special officer Goods and sent him up to
the County Jail. and subsequently placed
''charge" of insanity against him.
A few days later Lloyd was examined
by the Commissioners in Lunacy and dis
charged. He was, however, detained in
the County Jail for sate-keeping, as he
was homeless, penniless and respondent,