Lassoed Out Of The Mud

Lassoed Out Of The Mud

Thomas Grant, editor of a trade paper in SanFrancisco, in a fit of despondency determined to end his life. Going out to Bernal Heights, he stabbed himself several times with a penknife and lay down to wait for death, which did not come. Then he walked to a near-by creek with a muddy bottom and threw himself in. He quickly sank to his waist and was slowly going deeper when he was observed by some one, who called an officer. The policeman, an expert with the lasso, got a rope and with one dexterous throw got the line over Grant's shoulders and hauled it tight over the man's arms before he could throw it off. Then he was hauled ashore, partially divested of his coating of sticky mud, and sent to the hospital, where he is now in a more cheerful frame of mind.