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# ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Charles Voyce of Leighton Cuts Throat in Fit of Despondency. The town of Leighton was very much stirred up Saturday evening over an attempted suicide. Charles Voyce, who was seventy-four years old, Saturday tried to end his life by cutting his throat. The man is very bright and intelligent but he is somewhat handicapped by being a cripple, being club-footed. He had lost quite a sum of money in prospecting for coal and was "down in his luck." To cap the climax he invested what little money in the Peoples' Trust Co., of University City St. Louis, Mo., a company organized in connection with the Woman's National Weekly. The editor of the paper was indicted by the federal courts for libel and the suit has carried to such an extent that the company was forced into bankruptcy and a receiver appointed. This carried away the last of Mr. Voyce's money. He had often told his friends that he would kill himself when he ran out of money and he tried to make this threat good. When found by friends in Leighton he had cut his throat severing part of the wind-pipe. He refused to let the doctor dress the wound, but let him put a bandage around it. Sheriff Reed was summoned and with Deputy Chas. Briney went to Leighton after