Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-13
MAKES ANOTHER
TRY At SUICIDE
SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE HEAD
AT PARK
Frank r. FreeIand Says He Has Had
Enough and Wants to Recover
From His Serious Bullet
Wound

Never no more, I have had all the
attempts at suicide that I want for
many a long day to come" said Frank
X. Freeland, as he lay I'm his cot in the
county hospital last night after his
third unsuccessful attempt to kill him
self.
You see it is this way" he con-
tinued, 81 work for a sewing machine
company as an agent. 1 have a bond
up to guarantee that / will turn over
all collections to the company. There
was five dollars that woman had
promised to pay me on Saturday, but
she didn't do Il so l was short five
dollars.
IT didn't have the money and 1 got
blue worrying about the bond which
would be forfeited. thought it would
he better If / was dead, then 1 wouldn
need to worry about sewing machine
collections. 1 took my gun and went
out to Schutzen park about 8 o'clock.
was so nervous that the revolver
shook and wavered all around my head
and when / did pull the trigger, the
bullet struck me between the eyes.
TT seems that l am compelled to live,
have tried three times to kill myself,
but every time l make a miscue. The
first time 1 had been drinking and got
respondent and took about an ounce Of
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l didn't die none, not that trip.
"Then about two weeks after I took
a bottle of carbolic acid and then
suffered something awful. The whole
lining of my stomach seemed to be
burned out and l drank a quart of
water to cool the fire in my insides.
Says Job Was Coarse
But this time was the worst of all.
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sounded to me like common going off
in my ears. Then 1 spun around and
fell on my face. 1 was perfectly con-
scious all the time but 1 thought that
the top of my head was blown off.
"The doctor said that my attempt was
the coarsest job that he had ever seen
in the line of suicide. And L guess
that he is right for the bullet went in
my forehead and came out in my
mouth.
'I live with my sister and she is very
good to me, she lives at S14 Hemlock
street and when 1 don't come home
tonight L don't know what she will do.
"I have two brothers in Los Angeles,
one of them is barkepper and the other
works in the brick yards"
isn't it true that you have been
drinking for the last month, he was
asked.
well, 1 won't deny that 1 have been
drinking some, but the drink was not
what made me try to kill myself. 1t
was because 1 didn't have the five dol
lars to settle with the sewing machine
company that 1 was respondent"
Man VIII Probably Recover
But say, if ever get over this, I'll
bet four dollars that L don't try the
suicide racket any more. No, indeed
not any more for me. l am not greedy
and some other man can have the job
as sensation manufacturer for this
town."
His brother, John Freeland, who
works in a saloon on San Pedro street,
said that Frank had been on a drunk
for the last month and that it was his
popularity that as soon as he got well
soaked he wanted to go to heaven
right then and that attempts at suicide
by him were common. He added that
John always made sure that he would
survive the ordeal. He also said that
an attempt of that nature was his
brothers way of getting a lay off and
that when he got tired of working he
would try mild quietus on himself
The surgeon who had the case in
charge at the county hospital said that
there was very little likelihood that
Freeland would die as the course of the
bullet was so straight that there was
little probing necessary to get the bullet
from his anatomy.
He will, however, be in the hospital
with an exceedingly sore head for the
next three or four weeks.