| Show THOMAS TRIED TO DIE 4 Prisoner In City Jail Attempts Self Destruction 4 CUT GASH IN HIS THROAT V CRAZY BECAUSE MORPHINE V WAS DENIED H + Sent to Salt Lake From Logan By His People and Given Forty Days In Jail I Order to Cure Him of the Habit to Which He Was Addicted I Morgan Thomas a jjoung man under treatment for the morphine habt in the city jail made a futile attempt to end his existence at 945 last night by cutting cut-ting a jagged gash in his throat with a pocket knife The cut almost severed the windpipe but was not deep inotigh to reach the jugular and the unfortunate unfortu-nate will recover His craving for the drug led to the attempt Thomas was sent here by hip father John Thomas a well qnouii tailor of Logan who in a letter explained ex-plained the circumstances of his sons failing to Jailer Kimball and asked that he be treated for the habit the father having heard of the cure through an article publfshed by The Herald some weeks ago Sixteen cays ago young Thomas applied in person to the jailer pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to forty days Begged For Morphine I was supposed hat the cure was well under way until yesterday noon when Thomas begged lailer Kimbali to get him some morphine The latter was pomevvhat astonished to think Thomas had not lost his desire for the drug but more so to hear the young man say a needle and a phial had been smuggled in to him and that he had used it from the first the amount now being exhausted Of course Jailer Kimball would not I give him any more but determined togo to-go on In earnest with the cure Thomas craved for the needle all afternoon aid shortly before 10 oclock last night uor rowed n sharp pocketknife from Eph Kelly and after undressing retired to his bunk in one corer of the large corridor surrounded jy other prisoners prison-ers But a few minutes had elapsed when those in the oom heard him cry Goodbye all you fellows but those who were awake supposed i was someone some-one on the outside Cut His Throat A gurgling sound and the fall of Thomas bpdy attracted them to his bunk however near where he was found lying in a pool of blood The prisoners called for Night Jailer Cannon Can-non and the officers and Dr Keogh was sent for He made a hurried examination exam-ination and Thomas was removed to inaton the Holy Cross hospital Drs Root I McKenna and Witcher dressed the wound and Thomas was resting easily I as could be expected this morning He is able to talk though not without considerable con-siderable effort Letter to His People Thomas dictated the following letter yesterday forenoon to W H B non a fellow prisoner Although written apparently ap-parently in a despondent air he gives no intimation of the attempt upon his life lfeClty Jail June 19 99My Dear Father Brothers and Sisters I have been here now sixteen days and have never heard a word from any of you at home and I feel very much hurt asa as-a result I have never wronged you a I or any one in my life only myself I am not finding fault with you father and hold no animosity against my brothers for not sending me the money they promised although I feel very much hurt as is natural for a man in my feeble condition as I need a few things such as butter sugar and eggs things that they do not furnish me here in jail Write to my sister Mary and tell her I am sentenced to forty das Tell her to write to me With love to all I remain lovingly your son and brother MORGAN |
