The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-13
Homeless and Discouraged, Franklin
Carlisle Inflicts Serious Knife
Wounds on Himself on
Farm Near Lucille
CHANGES HIS Mind
AFTER DOING DEED
First Tells Wild Tale Of Being At
tackled but Later Backs Up;
Insanity Board May
Pass on Case

His wife dead, his children growI
and married and settled in homes o.
their own in distant Louisiana, tht
accumulations Of years OF toll ant
economies all swept away with ths
changing currents OF the financia
waters OF life; unknown. stranger in
a strange land, not wanted in the
homes of relatives; aged, his haii
bleached by the whitening SHOWS Of
half a century's winters, Franklin Car
Isle. fifty years OF age, attempted sui
eide about sundown yesterday after
noon on the farm OF John Looney, near
Lucille, by cutting his throat, almost
from ear to ear. and by stabblng him.
self six times in the left breast, over
the heart.
Carlisle, statements given out at
the sheriff's office say, had hired to
Mr. Looney 10 chop cord wood, after
having been told by a brother who
resides in this county, and who is said
10 be In comfortable circumstances,
that he was not wanted at his home.
All day yesterday he worked In the
timber, telling trees and looping off
their branches with his double-bltted
ak.
shortly before the supper hour just
as the shadows OF evening were be-
ginning to creep across the landscape
In the wake Of the setting sun. Carlisle
appeared at the front door Of the
l.ooney home and told the badly fright
ened lady OF the house weird and
wild story OF how some unknown man
had crept up on him in the woods,
coming upon him from the rear and
attacked him with a knife.
When Carlisle approached the door
way OF the Looney home he was a fear
some-looking object A gaping wound,
extending from the base of the left
jaw and passing beneath the chin
showed a bleeding length of five
inches. while the windpipe. barred and
throbbing with each breath's inhala-
ton. showed plainly between the lips
of the several flesh. His shirt front
was saturated with the blood which
had flowed from the wound in the
throat and from the six stab wounds
which had pierced his left breast The
hands of the man. even, were dripping
with blood which had poured forth
upon them as he had, according to the
statements he later made to the
sheriff and his force, held the edges
of the wound open in order that he
might bleed TO death"
Almost hysterical with fright, Mrs.
Looney called her husband tc the aid
of the wounded man. Together they
gave first aid to the injured" after
which they called the sheriff's office.
Deputy Bob Castleman responded and
drove out to the scene of the az
tempted suicide and upon his arrival
found the injured man had beea re-
moved to the Rock Island railway sta
ton, near the Looney home, Deputy
CastIeman was unable to locate ply
sician to take with him. but wired from
Lucille to Dr. Bowman, who met the
train upon its arrival here. The train
was over an hour and thirty minutes
late. so that Il was after s o'clock be
fore the wounded man received med.
ical aid.
DR.. Bowman stated that the man
ner in which first aid bad been given
the victim of his own indiscretion had
probably saved his life. The doctor
also said that had the man cut the
fraction of an inch deeper the main
artery would have been severed ano
death would have resulted in a few
seconds. Eight stitches were required
in drawing the wounds edges to
gether.
Carlisle stubbornly adhered to hi:
story throughout the night that sons
one had slipped up on him and slashet
his throat and stabbed him over thu
heart, making his getaway before III
could tell whether his assailant was
negro or white man.