Show I ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A Tailor Named Dodds Takes Morphine He Was Despondent and Liquor lId the Rest Too Stupid From Drink and Poison to be Interviewed I I Shortly before midnight last night a tailor tai-lor named Dodds who has a shop near the Rio Grando depot made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by taking a dose of morphine Dodds had been despondent for some days past and last night he was in the saloons near the depot drinking freely One of his friends who was watching watch-ing him closely saw him pour some morphine powder into 0 glass of beer and as Doods was raising the glass to his lips his friend stepped up and dashed it to the floor A short time afterward however Dodds succeeded in getting another dose of the poison into a glass of beer unobserved and he promptly swallowed the dose In u few minutes the effects of the drug became evident and the patrol wagon was sent for The unfortunate man was conveyed to the city hal where Dr Hall administered an antidote Then some of Dodds friends under the direction of the physician commenced I walking him up and down the sidewalk j and at lost accounts it was thought that he would recover Owing to his condition no rational statement as to the cause which impelled him to commit the rash act could be obtained |