Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-03 | Page 6 | Boland Had a Narrow Escape

B0LAND HAD A NARROW ESCAPE J E. M. Poland reported this morning that, through a mistake Inst night. .he took five morphine pills, each containing contain-ing a fourth of a grain. He slated that he thought he was taking pills that he had been using for some time past for kidney trouble. The two boxes were sitting together on the dresser of his room and I he morphine tablets were picked up In mistake for Kidney pills. He states that It was only through the heroic efforts of physicians that his life was spared, the doctors working with him until 2 oclock this morning. Mr. Bolami says he Is well known In Ogden, and he heard It rumored this morning that he had attempted suicide. He desires that his relatives and friends be correctly informed. He is now associated with his brother in the hotel business at Lander, Lan-der, Wyoming, an expects to leave for that city tomorrow morning.