| Show I I I I I 1 i I HE WAS f OF LIFE Owen Haight Takes a Fatal Dose of Morphine 3 DIES DI IEs AT POLICE f STATION X Xi i H E KAD H BE HARD HD I AND WAS RESPONDENT DESP NEN 4 r After Afar hours or or more of I continuous hard drinking Owen Haight Haigh J a ame miner about 32 years year old employed em loyed at atthe atI atthe I the Inland Salt Sal s works ended end endI I i i his life by swallowing an overdose f r fI fI I morphine He took the drug in in the h hj j 81 Si 8 saloon on First South street about about 10 last night and died die at the police station nearly two hours later He left lef nothing whatever to show j I tHe cause for his act but his relatives relates 1 and an friends attribute it to a fit ft of dr de deI induced by alcoholism I About 10 last night Haight walked into the saloon slon referred to in inan inI inan I an intoxicated condition and going to the bar he called cled for a glass glas of bee ber beeThe ber berThe berThe The bartender Joe oe Davis gave him the liquor and wanted wante him to drink it at atthe atthe atthe the bar barbut but he would not and going to a table on the te other side of the lh room sat down and drank it It it Return ReturnIng ReturnIng Ing the glass to the te bar he went back to t the table tle and sat sait sr down saying sa ing that he ae was wa going to sleep About Abut an hour afterwards the bar bartender bartender bartender tender noticed that tha Haight was breath breathing ing ng hard had and calling Aleck Alek Gimmell the proprietor of the te saloon salon who had hal just jest come in they went to him and tried to wake him up but found th thy y could not do so After Ater trying t ing for several minutes minute to arouse the ithe man mar and failing Gimmel went into the street and called ou Officer Kirkman Wen When the latter later discovered the te mans man s condition he called cled in assistance and Haight was carried carie to the he police sta sa station staton tion ton where Dr Benedict attended at him The latter reached reache the patient about abut 1130 and applied every ever remedy remey known but the drug had had its It deadly effe ef t tand tand and in about aut fifteen minutes minute afterwards Haight was dead dead Pound Found Foud the te When first frt brought to the station the condition showed showe that he hal had taken morphine but how much or when or where he had taken it i was wa not known knoian kown Ko No K one had seen him take an any anything thing in the saloon slon but the beer br and ani there ther was wa some suspicion of his ha having haing ing been ben drugged previous to coming coining t tJ ti tithe the saloon A thorough search of the saloon though after Haight was dead revealed a paper package containing about a grain gin of morphine which had hal been dropped in the cuspidor under the table where he was sitting when he drank the beer heer and I it is believed he swallowed the te drug in the liquor Haight was wa known to have had a T 1 15 I check when he came to town Tuesday night and most of that was spent 5 i h have seen Haight since he came eme In saY sav sa that he has ha been drinking hard all al the time and they believe beleve and every indi indication cation points ints to the fact that he was seized with wit a sudden fit ft of despondent y yand and took his own ow life It was learned leared at at the station staton that Silas Sia West who lives at 11 South State street was va a a of d f Haight Haight and he was immediately sum sun summoned summoned mone Mr West and Arthur Adam Adams Adama a hurried to the station staton bj ha when they the reached reache there the latter was dead dead Mr Mi Ir West said sid that th his had been working in the mines at Bin Binham Binham ham until about a month ago where ho he went to work for the Inland Salt corn com company pany He said he had not seen him for fon about a month until called last night Mr West said that Haight had ba D n drinking herd hard for some time Mr Adams said he had known th deceased to be very despondent wh n nhe he was under the influence of liquor but had bad never heard him hint of sui Sm suicide cide The deceased has a mother Mr Mrs Isaac T Haight living at Toquerville and has two sisters living in this cu nrc one or of whom is the wife of Silas Wet West Another sister is the wife of Aquila was well known in the min mis mining misi ing i g camps of the state His body was taken to the parlors of Undertaker S SI I B Evans An inquest will probably be beheld beheld held today |
