The Superior Express -

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 shot in an adjoining room and learned another man had done the act he was about to do.

On the way home on the train, he decided to cut his throat with a pen knife. Just as he got the courage to the sticking point, a man in the seat ahead jumped to his feet and in a twinkling had severed his jugular vein.

Three times Felt was prevented by Providence from destroying his life. He concluded he was destined to return to Nebraska and assist in straightening the tangle that would prevent innocent persons from suffering and self-destruction, before he was to suffer punishment in store for himself.

Ten years earlier on March 31, 1904, The Express published the following story about a celebration Felt was organizing in Superior:

A. C. Felt who is delegated all undisputed right, title, interest, equity in and to the Street Fair and Carnival arrangements for Superior has claimed the week of August 22 to 27 inclusive for the proper letting loose of Superior in a hospitable and entertaining way for all people in, to and roundabout, or within railroad reach of the only town in the Republican Valley capable of showing the people a royal good time in a manner wholly unstinted by word or deed.

Mr. Felt purposes a line of amusements and trade booths on Central Avenue between Third and Fourth and devoting two of the side streets to agricultural and livestock displays. His plan is to have it so diversified that not a single citizen or visitor can help but feel an interest in it and have a good time, and we feel sure our citizens will take hold and from this time on push and work for a successful street fair in Superior during the week above named, A street fair and carnival will be a good thing. Let’s push it along.