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Show ACCUSED MEXICAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Special to The Tribune. PRICE, Dec. 23. Joe Lopez, charged with the murder of a fellow countryman in Grand county about two weeks ago, attempted to take his own life in the county jail in this city this afternoon. Lopez way brought here from Grand county yesterday. When .he was searched a small bottle of medicine was overlooked. This afternoon Lopez broke j the bottle and gashed his throat with I the fragments. He would have bled to death but for the prompt arrival of a physician, who stopped the flow of blood , and sewed up his wounds. After receiving: medical attention, Lo- pes announced that he wo Hid not make' another attempt at self-destruction. The Mexican whom Lopez is charged , with killing is said to have been making fun of Lopez, while he was engaged in cooking a meal; An ax is the weapon i said to have been used. ' j |