 During this time, he tried to escape on three separate occasions, and on one of them, he was found with a saw made from an old caseknife, a stove poker, a large bottle and a stick.After being punished for this, he proceeded to go on a six-day long hunger strike, tried to kill himself by eating a bar of soap, and finally, another suicide attempt by starting a fight with two other Native American prisoners, during which he was beaten up before the jailer could interfere.In the meantime, there was a report of a human skeleton found at Kunnecke's old farm, which later turned out to be animal bones.