Kise, Will T - attempts suicide - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Two physicians were called Wednesday evening at an early hour to the house kept by Ann Null, in the northwest part of the city, to attend a man who had tried to commit suicide. When they arrived there they found two men walking Will T. Kise up and down the street in an effort to keep him from falling into a stupor. It seems that Kise had spent the afternoon at the house and had taken several doses of morphine with suicidal intent, and when the doctors began work on him he had enough of the deadly drug in him to kill several men. The physicians worked all night with him, giving him hypodermic injections and antidotes to kill the effect of the poison. He was virtually a dead man when they took him in charge, but by morning he had recovered consciousness and has taken a turn for the better. He was kept moving all night and the fight against death was never relaxed for a moment. He is still at the Null house, but is so weak that he cannot be moved, and is not yet in a condition to talk. His friends state that his married life has been unhappy and that he is in financial straits, though at one time he was worth considerable money. He is about thirty six years old and comes of a fine family. He lost his first wife and has not been living with his second wife for some time, and his friends state he has been very despondent for several months. - kbz