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Show HE CUT Hli THROAT. Deaparat Effort of a II spltat Patient to CouiaiU Sulcida. Another clmpter was added to the suicidal solstice, that has settled over Zion withiu the past two weeks, iu the 'effort of John Stevenson, a patient of St. Mary's hospital to behead himself yestesday afteruoon. Stevenson is a Park City patient and entered the infirmary in-firmary with a shattered limb. The Samaritan Sa-maritan spirits of the institution gave him every attention and he improved rapidly, lie seemed to have been bauuted by some trouble that he had never told, however, and it was gathered gath-ered that in his reflection upon the little cot in the main ward he was plotting against his life. This stimulted the .vigilance of the attendants attend-ants who saw that all weapons of destruction were kept beyond his reach. Ho was too cunning for thein, howevar. aud yesterday afternoon while the rest of the patients were knotted in a corner d:scussingthe question ques-tion of drawing the line on party principles princi-ples he quietly drew the blade from the folds of the bed clothes and drew it desperately across his jugular. Dulled aud blunted, however, the blade had outlined its usefulness this side of the grindstone and Stevenson was making un effort to saw into the fatal cord, when the attention of the other patients was attracted aud the alarm iriven. The keepers rushed in and the man was disarmed w hile making a tierce struggle to reach his throat once more. There was no need for medical aid. The wounds were confined to tho cuticle and the patient will be ready for dismissal dis-missal In a few days. Stevenson declines de-clines to give bis reasons for the act aud has settled dowu to the same spirit of despondency again. |