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Show uuiEsm I Ei HIS OWN LIFE H j Salt Lake, April 12. Grieving over H the death or his mother In Italy, Carlo I Anseimo, oromer 01 uiovanni Ansei- H mo, now serving a life sentence in the H penitentiary Tor the murder of Pa- H trolman Thomas Griffiths in June, H 1013, last night drank a vial of carbol- H ic acid in the second attempt in two H days to end his life. H The vial was dashed from his hand H by Beth Gafireno, a girl to whom he H is engaged and the girl who, on Mon- H day night, overpowered him when he H placed a gun against his temple in an H aticmptJ.o send a bullet into his brain. H At S o'clock last night Anselmo H went room 31S in the Shelton hotel H to see the girl. He told her of the Immmm " death of his mother and said- "I shall return to Italy and chisel a monument for her grave. Mary me and go back to Italy with me. and when we have erected the monument we will return to the "United Stales." The girl is said to have demurred at the abrupt marriage plan. Lifting an ounce vial of poison from a dressing BgB I table, Anselmo threw back his head H and most of the liquid ran down his H ) throat. The girl called Patrolman iBBBBBM 1 TnconVi Rmnrv nnrl li nnlloH fhr Tin. Slice ambulance. The man was rushed to the police emergency hospital and mmm j. Dr. W. Scott Keyting was summoned. m Prompt work by Dr. Keyting and the H i hospital attaches is believed to have M jj saved his life. He was in a serious M ) condition late last night, but it is ex- m I pected that he will recover. m Little could be learned of the first m ) attempt to end his life, said to have M !j been committed in the girl's room late fl ,1 Monday night. Anselmo himself re- B ' fused to discuss it. As near as can H be learned, he went to the room early B j in the evening, leaving the door part- m ly open, so that he could hear hi3 H 1 1 telephone, just around the corridor. B He Is said to have drawn a revolver ' from his pocket and placed it against ihis head, when Miss Gafireno wrested the weapon from his hand and pacified paci-fied him. N Anselmo Is the cousin of F. Anselmo, Ansel-mo, the Italian counsel in Salt Lake. The death of his mother and the Imprisonment Im-prisonment of his brother are be lieved to have preyed upon his mind. The girl who twice prevented Anselmo An-selmo from taking his own life could not be found last night. She left the hotel shortly after the police ambulance ambu-lance had removed Anselmo. In knocking the vial from his hand, some of the liquid ran down her arm, burning burn-ing the fleBh to the elbow. no Fresh from a three years' course in tho American Institute of Dramatic Dramat-ic Art In New York, where she at traded unusual attention of her critics crit-ics through her clever work Miss Eccles has chosen for the introduction introduc-tion to her professional stage career Charles Kenyon's most dramatic production pro-duction "Kindling," and "Mrs. Bump-stead Bump-stead Leigh." Miss Eccles plays tho leading role in both offerings, and is surrounded with a cast of talented principals, a number of whom have already won distinction. Armorel Dixon will be remembered for her clever work as tho leading lady in 'Under Cover," presented at the Utah Theater Thea-ter at Logan last season The acst also includes Lucile Rogers, whose success In the title ti-tle role of "Rebecca of Sunny Book Farm," was Instantaneous, and who later toured the middle states with "Kick In." Herbert Maw the leading lead-ing man with the Eccles Company is already known to Utah playgoers and other artists who appear with the company are Miss Edith Barlow also of Ogden and Spencer Felt. HOME CULTURE CLUB. The Home Culture club will hold its regular meeting, Thursday, April 13 at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. Jay Smith. 1554 Robinson avenue. |