Lepel definitely does not imply any suicide attempt. Hoffbauer quotes the entire report, along with everyone else‘s full report, except for the fragment by Anonyomous (maybe Müller), of which there is only a fragment. I don‘t have the time to translate all the reports beyond the quotes I‘ve already given, but I can scan those pages like I did the map so you can have a look.
Anyway, what Lepel is describing pretty much sounds like a nervous breakdown; crying, moaning, not or little eating, and the „I can see Katte“ claim which depending on whether you believe Fritz meant it literally, metaphorically or either Fritz or Lepel made it up was or wasn‘t a hallucination. In the later report - not the first one - there‘s the „he believes he, too, will die“ thing, but, like I said: at no point does any of this sound as if Lepel thinks Fritz is going to harm himself. Given that pre-Katte‘s execution, Fritz seems to have been in more of a bravado mood, the contrast must have been especially striking.
Re: Katte at Küstrin: The Theodor Hoffbauer Version
Anyway, what Lepel is describing pretty much sounds like a nervous breakdown; crying, moaning, not or little eating, and the „I can see Katte“ claim which depending on whether you believe Fritz meant it literally, metaphorically or either Fritz or Lepel made it up was or wasn‘t a hallucination. In the later report - not the first one - there‘s the „he believes he, too, will die“ thing, but, like I said: at no point does any of this sound as if Lepel thinks Fritz is going to harm himself. Given that pre-Katte‘s execution, Fritz seems to have been in more of a bravado mood, the contrast must have been especially striking.