Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-04
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
WHEN LOVE WAVES
Hacking at His Wrists With A
Dull Knife, Louis Hirsch
Seeks Death.
A PROMINENT OHIO OFFICIAL.
Telegram Prom Chief of Police ~ Cin-
cinnati Indicates That Man T. I'm
High Esteem There

Emb.tterod by lost and unrequiied
love and with "a brooding mind subject
% hallucination. Louis Hirsch AGED
e. years. whose home is IN Cincinnati
Ohio. last night made desperate at
tempt to end his life About II o'clock
with a dull edged penknifo he endoav-
ored TO sever the arteries OF both
wrists, then iabbed the blunt blade into
his right leg add with a Arm deter
/ minatlon hacked his throat he was
/ found lying In his bed at 2l8 south First
l West street this morning at 1880 O'Clock,
still conscious, although weakened from
/ the loss OF blood, and was removed
/ TO the emergency hospital and then to
/ 81 Marks IL was statsd by the at
I tending physicians. Drs. 8 g. Paul AMI
+ b. steele that he would survive
The attempted suicide OF Hirsch Ia
one OF the most desperate recorded
/ here. The only motive gwen ny him
| for self-destruction Is the brooding over
/ lost love.
Hirsch arrived In Salt Lake Thurs.
l day night while on MS return from
| Portland 10 his home in Cincinnati He
/ secured room yesterday morning al
/ the roOming house kept by Mrs. Bailey
al 2lf south First West street He was
accompanied here by NJ O Wallace OF
| NorWalk Wis. who with his wife and
little daughter, met Hirsch on the train
/ az Portland and became travelling com
| panious u was through Mr.. Wallace
that much of what il known OF Mr.
Hirsch has been learned.
WANTED TO TELL TROUBLES.
II was Mr. Wallace who found Hlrsch
I afd IIs.1
News representative Mr.. Wallace
said.
we met Mr.. Hlrsch on the train as
We left Portland. He seemed 10 brood
a good deal but as We became acQuaint-
ed he wanted 70 tell as all his troubles.
| According TO his story he had been
married twice. There were two chill
| dren born 10 the first wife, the eldest
/ dying at about the age of 3 years. and
both the mother and the second child
| died A day or two after the latter was
born He had married again and had
/ a little daughter. The second wife se-
cured divorce and took the child with
her Then lately Hirsch said. he lad
met another woman In Cincinnati and
their friendship had grown into az
/ rcction until a month or so ago some
thing had happened 20 separate them.
| Apparently In the endeavor 20 forget
his trouble he took trip to the Pa
cihc coast. leaving Cincinnati Aug a.
He was on his way home when we met
him, and the fact that he was dement,
ed was shown IN his constant fear AMI
apprehension that his ticket wasn't
I right He seemd TO worry a lot about
the fact that he might be put of the
train. and yet his ticket was all right
when we got 10 salt Lake my wife
and I secured rooms near the place
where he got his room, and we were
together a good deal yesterday. He
was a little respondent and we had
taken a few drinks together but he
was IN no way drunk and never limited
| az the possibility OF his taking his own
life. He was IN brooding humor and
| wanted to repeat all his troubles. but
| ! laughed al him and tried TO cheer
him up When we separated IN the
evening he went 10 his room and
we had an understanding that I was
to awaken him In the morning and
that he would go to breakfast with US
then go out 10 see the city
FOUND WITH THROAT CUT.
when I went 10 his room this morn
ing about Z. 30 o'clock I found the door
wide open and he was lying on the
bed with his throat cut and the bed
clothes saturated with blood / imme-
diatelv called the police"
At the hospital Hirsch was conscious
| and while understanding all questions
| put 10 him was unable TO talk and
could only answer either by writing on
tablet or with the shake Of the head
With almost tragic signs of the
hands he told BIZ counting ON the
fingers the time that he had tried 10
take his own life, indicated that Il had
been knife he had used. and when
asked why he had done Il shook his
hands about hts head 20 show a whirl-
ms brain and then with a sigh and
With one hand pounding M his heart
and the other graspng his head ex-
pressed his regret.
The condition OF the room showed
his determined effort 10 end his life
Mrs Bailey the landlady Of the room
| ing house. said that she had heard
Hirsch coughing and sneozinR" about
n o'clock last night and this was
about the time ne had made HIS frg'
attempt After slashlng his wrists ht
had arisen and raised two windows
opened the door and then had gone q
the dresser as evidenced hy blood
stains A writing pad and pencil on
the bureau showed that he had in
tended writing but changed bis mind
lie had then gone back to his bed AND
slashcd his throat
According 90 fragmentary statements
made 90 Mn Wallace. he has scvera
brothers living ln CINCINNATI, engaged
n the cigar and tobacco business. ant
n rs understood also that for severe
ycars ho was one n the city judges o
! cincinnati
A telegram from inc chief of polio,
of cincinnati Go chief Barlow request'
that no expense Zoe spared 400 carins
for Mr. lilrsch. but conveys mo- infor