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Travis County "Sick List" Newspaper Articles


Attempts Suicide.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 9 - Sam Harris, aged sixty, a blind Negro, attempted to commit suicide by hanging. Harris went to the woods near his home and place a rope over the limb of a tree and swung off. He was unconscious when discovered and the physician had much trouble in resuscitating him. He wanted to die because he was blind. From The Evening News, Maria Texas, Presented by Shauna Williams]

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