The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
D|PPY TRIES SUICIDE;
GETS GIRL ON PHONE
Pickpocket Keeps Threat Made
Over Wire When He Called
UP Inamorata.
NOTORIOUS TRIO PRESENT
Episode Of Underworld Sets
Chinatown Agog From Bloody
Angle" to Pell Street.
NOTORIOUS TRIO PRESENT
By Leased Wire TO The Tribune.

By Leased Wire TO Tho Tribune
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-For the third
time in his thirty years of life, Dippy
Rice of Chinatown and the Bowery
tried to end his troubles with pistol
bullet today. 1t was no "phony" at
tempt at suicide, be it understood The
bullet entered his head in front of the
right ear and came out under the left
eye.
That it missed the brain was no fault
of Dippy.
The stage setting for suicide
filled back room of Chinatown
club: - after closing hours, with such
celebrities as Mike States, Jimmy Kelly
and Jim Brown sitting at the tables
Before he fired the shot Dippy called
up his ''gal' on the telephone and told
her. And then to have the doctor say
she II pull through" Surely some
men have all the luck in this world,
and others have none at all.
John Rice is Dippy S real name, and
IT is said his relatives are hard work
ing and respectable folk 1t was the
police who christencd him "Dippy.'
A man who cannot keep his hands
out of other people IS pockets is techni-
cally known rs "dip.'
Police Name Him "Dippy.'
Rice has been arrested so many times
on the pocket picking charge that it is
not strange that they gave him the
name of his trade. Dippy has seldom
failed to be among those present when
the police had made general roundup
OF the dips.
Jimmy Brown is the proprietor of the
Charlam club, where Dippy fired the
bullet into his head this morning
"Nigger' Mike States has had his
name in print many times. Jimmy
Kelly, the third of the three noted men
who witnessed Dippy's attempt to die
is the proprietor of the Mandarin cafe
in Chinatown IS 'bloody angle Jimmy
the Charlam club. The front doors OF
the club were closed, and Brown took
his three friends into the back room
They had not been there long when q
friend OF Dippy's walked in strodc
over to Dirnv and said in firm voice:
"Now,. I've found you, you We got
to come home.
"All . 4 right -; said Dippy, "wait til
, Dippy took the telephone receiver
off the hook and gave central mum
Der. In half minute he was convers
ing with some one whom he calico
RAY Judging from the replies
Dippy made. Ray seemed to be upbraid
ing him. After a while Dippy said:
"All right, II do it, sure; listen an(
YOU II hear it,
Then he placed the transmitter |,
position, and before anyone coult
stop him be drew revolver from hi:
pocket, held the muzzle to his cheel
and bIazed away. AS he slid TO th'
floor some one replaced the receiver
and the telephone bell began to rims
wildly.
Wounded Man Phones.
nRayu was on the wire. She wanted
to talk to Jimmy Brown, She asked
him If Dippy was still there. "Why
Raw said Jimmy, she 8 Just sho
himself"
"Well, if he isn't unconscious, lie
me talk to him said the girl.
They propped Dippy up IN char
and held the transmitter in front of hi:
mouth and the receiver to his ear.
"Here, dat me bum ear saic
Dippv, HHold il to the other one. Die
YOU bear7 Gee. you ought to see m'
now; l am an awful sight. Good
bye.' ,.,
His strength left him and he slid ou
of the chair DR.. Hook came from tn,
Hudson street hospital and took hin
away.
Dippy shot himself three years ag'
in a dive on Water street. After few
weeks in the hospital he was back IL
his old haunts looking as well as ever
A wear later he fired bullet into hi
head in hotel. He nearly died tina
time. aud lay for weeks in Bellevue