The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-31
Alleged Murderer Tried to Com
nit Suicide.
CAME NEAR TO DEATH
PRESENTED A CORY SIGHT
WHEN DISCOVERED.
Severed an Artery and Was Nearly
Dead When Discovered By the
Night Jailer-SupPosed That He
Was Driven to the Deed By His
Wild Authorizations.
lsnecial Correspondenee.)

Pennington, Jan. 20.-Nathan Fisher
Haworth. the alleged murderer of the
Layton Waterman, Thomas Sandal,
cut an artery in his right wrist some
time during the early hours Of this
morning. and came near bleeding to
death before daylight came and reveal
ed his condition to the night iailer. The
bed clothes were sneareG and soaked
with gore. and on the floor of the cell
q clotted pool had formed. HawOrth Is
shirt was also saturated, and one SIDE
Of his face and his hand were covered
with blood.
The one mystery surrounding the at
tempted suicide Is that no one, except
HawOTth, knows what was used 10 cut
the artery. A search was made IN tne
cell, and nothing was found with when
mitted. The sheriff inclines TO the De-
the deed could possibly have been COM
lief that the prisoner secured a piece
Of a broken window pane. and after
opening the artery, destroyed or hld
the glass.
The incisiOn made in the wrist was
less than an inch in length, but the
artery was severed as neatly as if the
work had been done by a surgeon.
a CHASTITY Spectacle.
Charley Turner, the night jailer, was
awakened about o'clock by heavy
thUd, and as he sprang up one OF the
prisoners called out that Haworth must
be crazy: that he had fallen from ms
bunk and was rolling on the floor. MI
Turner carried his light to the rear OF
Haworth's cell, and through the bars
he beheld an awful si-ht. Blood STAINS
were visible everywhere, and HaWorth
insisted that he was dying, and begged
to be dispatched. The wOuld-be SUI
eide confessed to Turner that he had
attempted to take his own life By cut
ting an artery,
The jailer lost no time in summonlng
assistance. HawOrth was conscious
when help came but shortly after ne
tainted, and was with difficulty revived
Taken From Jail.
Sheriff Abbott, who was in Kaysville,
was teleDhOned for, as was also Dr.
Gleason of Kaysville. They found that
the man was in too serious a condition
to be left in Jail, and a room was htted
up for him in the court house.
HawOrth tried to walk across the Ja3l
ward to the court house, but was too
weak, and had to be carried. He
swOoned a second time after reaching
his room, and DR.. Gleason began TO
fear he would not revive. When ne
did regain consciousness, he seemed
perfectly calm and clear in his mind,
and he watched the dressing of the
self-infiicted wound without a tremor.
The flow of blood had stopped before
the doctor arrived, a cOagulatiOn hav-
ing formed around the cut. To this
fact HawOTth owes his life, for he could
not have WithstOOd a greater drain upon
his system. AS it is, he is entirely too
weak to walk, or even to sit up He
lies prone upon his back and seldom
speaks From q. remark that he made
to the sheriff this morning it is evident
that he etill believes his attempt will
be successful. He complains frequently
Of a sinking sensation, and experiences
a singing feeling around his heart. DR..
Gleason has no fear but what he will
recover. though ne viii be very weak
for some time.
Feared Assassination.
Haworth refuses to say how or why
ne made the attempt to end his life.
He has not seemed mOrose to any I'm
usual degree of late; in fact, his men
tai condition has been far better than
it was during the first two weeks of
his confinement. He has made no com
plants about being pursued by con-
spirators as ne did at first. but it is
believed that these same fears have
haunted him and driven him to the
desperate deed he planned. This be
lief is borne out by the fact that in
his notebook was found a few hastily
written lines, addressed to his brother,
in which he mentions the consDirators
against his life and that of his wife.
The probability is that the bringing
Of the four burglars up from Provo
and lodging them in jail last night has
had its effect on the prisoners mind,
and that the old horror of assassination
overwhelmed him to such an extent
that he was driven to commit the rash
deed.
In conversation with Sheriff Abbott
this morning, HawOrth asked that
when he died his body should be sent
to his old home at Fort Dodge, Ia
Tonight he is resting well, and is be-
inc Given ooOd attention