...from the archives in Oklahoma City, OK:


The Daily Oklahoman
Tuesday
06-18-1912
p.2/12


OLD MAN TRIES TO END HIS LIFE

John W Cooper, the 60-year-old man who in a fit of
despondence wandered away from his brother's home at
1421 West Sixteenth street, Sunday morning, was
found by Norman Corbin, a newsboy, Monday morning
at about 7 o'clock, lying in the muddy waters of the
Deep Fork creek, one block northwest of the city
limits, with his windpipe almost severed and his
wrists badly bruised and cut. However, his chances
for recovery are bright.

When found by the newsboy, the old man was standing
knee-deep in the creek, vainly endeavoring to get a
drink of water, for as fast as he would swallow it,
the fluid ran out through the slash in his throat.

Cooper, who makes his home with brother, R.D. Cooper,
has been an invalid for some time, and for the last
three weeks has appeared very despondent.

The man was taken to the Wesley hospital and will
recover according to attending physicians, unless
further complications set in. As yet he has been
unable to talk, but managed to scribble off on a
scrap of paper an account of how he tried to "end
it all"; how he cut his throat and wrists with a
dull knife Sunday afternoon and then jumped into
the creek.

Mr Cooper was not married.


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