Show WAYWARD GIRL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN CORRIDOR OF PUBLIC BUILDING Maude Johns aged 17 made an ef effort effort effort fort to commit suicide in the corridor of the city cit and county count building base basement basement basement ment yesterday morning and was only prevented by Deputy Sheriff Sperry who had her herin in charge The sirl was arrested Friday night by the police on Commercial street Be Being BeIng Being ing a paroled inmate of the industrial school at Ogden she was lodged in the city jail and yesterday morning Sperry went there to take her to the sheriffs office as it was the intention to take her back to the industrial school Just as she entered the north en entrance entrance entrance trance of the building the girl slipped a bottle of oC chloroform from her sleeve into her right hand quietly opened the cork and raised the bottle to her lips Sperry seeing that something was wrong with great presence of mind knocked the girls hand aside and the bottle was dashed to the floor After the incident the wayward girl was asked why she had attempted to take her life Ufe but she would give no an answer answer answer She was vas taken to Ogden in the afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Fred But ut ler The Johns girl came originally from Park City About fourteen months ago she was sent from the juvenile court to the industrial school on the charge charSe of immoral conduct She behaved well while there and was recently paroled I She came to Salt Lak again but got back into her old ways wa s and the police pollee arrested her Friday evening It is thought that despondency and to go back balk to the Ogden school caused her to attempt |