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Show -5 ' Jjft' MINER ENDS LIFE i Jffjf VITH DEADLY, ACID SKI Salt Lflkc, Jan. 11. Dennis O'Neill, vi a5ed 63 yearB a miur f park clty committed suicide shortly after 10 o'clock last night in Bomblno's saloon, sa-loon, 71 Commercial street, by swallowing swal-lowing the contents of an ounce bottle bot-tle of carbolic acid. Death followed within a few minutes. It is thought that O'Neill was demented when he swallowed the drug. O'Neill was seen Monday morning by a patrolman acting strangely nip-on nip-on the street and he was taken to tic police station on a charge of insanity. Later in the day he appeared to have recovered and was released After leaving the city jail O'Neill rushed into the Independent Telephone Tele-phone building on South State street, and cried to occupants of the building build-ing that he was being pursued by a thousand men. He was again placed in the city jail and was later removed to the county jail. The sanity commission com-mission and appearing normal was again released. Tuseday night O'Neill slept at the police station as a lodger. At this time he told a patrolman that he had worked In such complete solitude for so long a time In Big Cottonwood canyon that his mind had become unbalanced. |