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The Weekly Expositor
Brockway Centre, MI
August 29, 1890


                        THE BANDIT HOLZHAY TRIED TO 
                           BATTER HIS BRAINS OUT.
                           
                      His Desperate Attempt at Suicide
                             Proves Abortive.
                             
              Marquette, August 26. - HOLZHAY, the lone Gogebic
            highwayman and murderer, made another attempt Monday
            morning at self-destruction, and he was almost success-
            ful. Having lost the use of his right hand in an effort
            to escape by overpowering the guards, and his attempt
            at starvation having been thwarted by the injection of
            food, the unruly convict tried a more efficacious means.
            When the guard took HOLZHAY'S breakfast to his cell he
            found the prisoner in a semi-conscious condition on the
            floor, bleeding freely from the right wrist and his
            hair matted with blood. A hasty examination showed that
            his wrist had been cut open above the radial artery,
            and his scalp on the crown of his head crushed to a 
            pulp. The wounds were promptly dressed, HOLZHAY re-
            covered his senses during the process. In his pocket
            was found a blood-stained sliver of tin which had been
            broken from a galvanized iron bucket used in taking
            water to the cell. When this attempt to sever his
            artery, had been made, HOLZHAY had then tried to
            smash his brains out by butting his head against
            the brick wall of the cell, but the length of the
            room was insufficient to permit proper momentum.
            HOLZHAY is now in a straight jacket and for the pre-
            sent is incapable of inflicting further injuries
            upon himself.
            
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