The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-03-01
FOILED IN SUICIDE AT.
TEMPT THREE
TIMES.
Now He Is Slowly But Sure
ly Dying at Pacific
Hospital.

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Fooled on three previous oc.
caslons In HE efforts to commit
suicide, Christian hoil, aged 66,
a city patient, lie tortufina him.
self 70 death In the Pacific hos.
pital.
MOL is IN the hospital with about
haif the bones IN his body smashed
az the result of jumping out Of his
window In the Seattle hotel 10 thu
hard pavement OF the alley. AZ
fast as the doctors can reset and
bandage his broken limbs. the NAH
deliberately wriggies about until he
has disarranged the bandages ana
torn loose the ends Of the broken
bOncs.
How any human being could nerve
himself 90 suffer this horrible pain,
reminding one Of the ancient Gus
tom of breaking people 10 death on
the torture wheel. Is a mystery 70
the attending physicians. N0ll not
only does II, but accomplishes Il in
stole silence
Picked Up In Alley.
Noll was taken TO the hospital
on the morning 81 February IS. IA
the emergency ambulance He was
found lglng In the alley back Of the
Seattle hotel He was unconscious
and The police thought he had ac-
cidentaily fallen from the window
of a room ia the building. Both
ankles and one leg were broken,
and for a time II was feared Sic
skull was fractured Many other
bones were also broken or dislo.
Gated.
The man was patched together
By Dr. y 8 Bourns. chief medical
inspector In the health department.
Several days later be regained con-
sciousness and since that time AZ
most as fast az the doctor rear
ranges the bandaRes and resets tie
broken limbs Noll wriggies around
ia hse bed until he not only Iooaens
the bandaEes, but disturhs the
broken ends Of his bones
Made Other Suicide Attempts.
Bit b. bit the hospital authorities
have learned that Noll's fan vas
not only very probably the result o.
his determination 70 end his life. bu.
that previously he had made other
attempts 10 leave this mundane
sphere
First NolI tried 10 batter hls
brains out against a wall. lie beat
one side OF hts head against the
sail and repeated the process
again. using the other side Of his
head as 4 human bnttering ram.
All this pounding bruised the
mans scalp and cut HE face until
he hardly looked like a human be-
ing. bur Il did not XIII him.
Noll's ambition to cross the rlwer
Styx was not TO be stayed. He tried
70 strangle himself to death.
Whether. weakened by the loss OF
blood and dazed az the self-infiicted
punishment, he lacked the sufficient
strength 10 pull the string that he
tied around his neck tight enough TO
strange himself. or whether IN
his delirium he made up his mind 70
select an even shorter route 70 the
grave. Is not known. but the man
then Jumped out 81 his window to
the alley.
Little Known About Him.
II was there that the Officers
found him. unconscious. with his
legs and ankles broken and other
wise badly battered up.
And now in the hospital. after he
had received the best OF medical
care and had his broken bones re-
set and bandaged. Noll is torturing
himself to death. At first. when the
doctors entered his room and found
his hnndages all disarrangcd and
the broken bones out Of place. they
Thought Il an accident They reset
the smashed bones and fixed new
bandages. They found Noll again.
Yieibly weaker. with the same con-
diiion confronting them And al
most a. fast as the doctors can set
the broken limbs and handagc them,
Non wriggles around Until the doc
tors work Is undone
Noil refuses To talk much. but he
has grown SO weak from the self
inflicted agony that the doctors do
rot believe he can survive Il Is
not known where the man came
from. or whether he has relatives.
He was IN Alaska and the police cay
ne Is a German 'pensiuner' who re-
ceiVcd regular remittanoes from an
estate ID Germany.
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