A. C. Felt, who voluntarily returned from California and confessed to the wrecking of the First National Bank at Superior, after receiving his sentence of five years in the Leavenworth federal prison, told the judge a wonderful story. He told how he was prevented from destroying himself three times by the sight of other men doing the very act he contemplated doing.
First, he went down to the docks in San Francisco to drown himself. Just as he arrived, another suicide victim was dragged from the water by the life savers.
In a hotel later, he was about to shoot his brains out, when he heard a sh...
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