Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-04-03

tempted TO ferry
the Styx and only
MS last call TO the grim boatman seems
iikeiy to attract old Charon's sullen at
tenfion. Cheeseman's persistence in
seeking a ready exit from the stage OF
NE - consistent with the varied meth
OBS OF his lethal experiments. Some
OF MS failures were unique, notably
wnen ne interrupted the circuit of a
i've electric wire and survived the
deadly voltage OF an alternating cir
euit OF tnnumerable ohms. He has
also swallowed poison and Jumped
rom the promenade deck OF Southern
Pacific ferryboat. Last Saturday he
shot himself through the lungs, mar
roWly missing mis- heart, and the doe
tors diagnose his symptoms as fatal.
Cheeseman's FIRST attempt on his life
was sensational. He threw himself
from an npper-story window in this
city. involving himself in two POSSIBLE
itses OF successful suicide. He hoped
IN the first instance TO perish on the
wires OF an electric light interceptlng
his descent 10 the pavement. which he
Imagined would mangie him srifi-
riently II the wire should break. It
happened that the wire was tenacious
and cheesman was rescued
His next adventure was a plunge
from ferryboar. reckoning on the
chronic lethargy Of the Southern Pa
eide 10 achieve his purpose But Chess
man could not sink. Il is the custom
Of the Southern Pacific officials to ar
rest people who jump from their ferry
boats and turn them over 10 the police.
This was the procedure on this occa-
sion. but Cheesman. while on his way
10 the station. drew q knife from his
pocket and stabbed himself three or
four times In the neck This time his
lack OF precision as an anatomist saved
aim.
After his wounds we're dressed they
locked Cheesman In a cell. and half
an hour later he was found hanging by
bis snspenders 70 the grating in the
criliug.
When he recovered his breath suffi-
GENTLY to explain cheesman said he
wanted 70 die because Ellie Lambert
would not marry him.
A few months later the old craving
czme upon him again and he poisoned
himself in the basement OF his par
eats home In Lorin. Again the doc
tors inferfened. this time with the
pump. and Cheesman came up smiI-
ing once more out Of the valley OF the
shadow
Rut cheesmau was still unsatisfied
His desire for death may even be re-
garaed ~ insatiate A little while
after the poisoning episode he climbed
upon a windmill Ioftief than those al
witch his prototype OF la Mancha
tllted. and. probably imagining him
i, SELF an airship or a thunderbird. leap.
ed head foremost into space. Deatf
az this time was inevitable. but a bis
Dog passed opportuneiy and Cheesmar
landed safely on the animals back.
The object OF these evidences Of al
insane regard, thus emphatlcally i'm
portuned, concluded about this tim
that Cheesman was In deadly earnes
and that he meant what he said wheI
, no ayerred that he would not live with
out her. Consequently. on Sept. Is
fSas, Frank II. Cheesman and Eff
Lambert were married.
Z In books the romance OF life usual.
: ends az the altar. but in real life 1t ]
. I go. ..es th. Chaaor,au 4ra 0ed'
$ was no exception 10 the rule OF realism
. He began new series Of tragi
:. aulsodes by trying TO shoot his wife
. Failing TO do 50 he knotted handker
e chief about his neck and in the pres
I puce Of his wife tried to choke himsel
q to death. Mrs. Cheesman summone
= assistance and her husband made rec
b ard OF his seventh failure.
:, His wife then left him and Chees
?, man. came TO San Francisco. where h
:. found woman whose throat he trie
V "a cut. He was arrested and sent I
y The Ukiah insane asylum. He wa
b discharged six months later and shit
nod on a man-of-war, but deserted
san Diego and returned home.
He had a lucid interval for seye
y manths during which he worked
4. ,ba trade OF house painter In oal
ID and He was paid OF last Saturda
d uIaht and went TO his home in sout
= nerkley. He carried his suicidal ter
., asucv with him, and with revolver x
> fbe eight time, attempted his III
3. me Rowell was called and located q
10 nullet in Cheeseman's lung. The do
d 81, savs the wound is serious.
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