The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-08-19
Jerry White, Widely KnownAmong
Old Soldiers of County At
tempts Suicide Friday
DESP0NDENT FOR SOME TIME
Old Man Fights for Life at the Keno.
sha Hospital but Declares
That He Has Nothing
TO live For

! JGlIy w Hltc, Wiuely huONu dluoiiS
the old soldiers of the county and a
/ pioneer resident of Kenosha, attempted
| to commit suicide in an alley just east
of the Maple House on Pearl street
Friday morning slashing his throat sew
eral times with a razor. He is at the
Kenosha hospital and his condition is
encouraging to the physicians IN at
tendance and they believe that the old
man will recover.
White for some time had made his
home at the Soldler s Home at Wau-
paca, but he recently returned to Ke-
nosha and since that time had been
living at 314 Valentine street. For
several days he had been respondent.
/ White is seventy three years Of age
and has no children living. Friday
morning he was about the streets early
talking with friends, but he gave no
indication that he was planning to
take his own life. White had been in
the Maple house just before nine
o. clock and seemed to be very nervous.
He went out of the hotel and later
Went into the alley and pulling the
razor from his pocket began slashing
his throat A minute later he was
found by pedestrians and John Male
kovich, an attendant at the county
| JAIL hurriedly called Dir. Munro to
attend the old man. He was lying on
the ground in pool Of blood and be-
hind a big rock some distance from
the old man was found the blood COW
cred razor with which he had slashed
/ his throat from ear to ear.
AS soon as possible the police ambu-
| lance was called and after the would be
suicide had been temporarily relieved
he was taken to the Kenosha hospital
where Doctors Munro and Robinson at
tended him. It was found that the
old man had cut the exterior wall of
the jugular vein, but the vein proper
had not been severed. He was so
weakened by the loss of blood that he
was unable to speak put after the
physicians had taken three stitches in
the vein and closed up the gaping
wound in his neck White could talk a
little. II have no one to live for
and was discouraged, he mumbled to
the physicians dressing his wounds but
at the same time he urged the doctors
to do everything in their power to
prevent his dying. The physicians
after they had operated on White de-
clared that his chances of recovery
were good and that the only question
was as to whether his constitution was
strong enough to stand for the loss of
blood resulting from the terrible cut
in his neck
! White has been a resident of Ke-
nosha since boyhood and with the
breaking out of the war of the rebel
lion he enlisted in the First Wiscon-
sin regiment.
During the war he was member Of
several regiments and he has an ex-
cellent war record. For many years
| he lived with his wife ON Park street,
the two keeping a boarding house, but
with the death of his wife some years
ago he lost interest in life and went
to live at the Soldiers Home. Life
got too tame for him there and he re-
widely known on account of the fact
that for years he was employed as a
hearse driver by the different livery
stables in Kenosha.