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Show SHE TOOK STRYCHNINE. A Young Danish Girl Who Lived in ortll Salt Lake Ends Her Life. At undertaking rooms of Joseph F. Taylor, on West Temple street, there is tha body of Matilda Goodmanson, a young j Danish girl who suicided some timo las ' night in the residence of her cm, I ploycr iu North Salt Lake. Very fctf particulars of the sad affair can be obtained, though some interesting developments may be brought out at the coroner's inquest which is to be held this evening. Not even the name of her employer could be obtained. The girls' body j was brought to town this morning and with it came the information that sho had committed suicide by taking strychnine. She was recognized as a girl of good character char-acter and as far as known had no gentlemen , friends. A physician who made an exterior examination thi3 morning could find no indications in-dications of pregnancy, so that could not have been the cause for the melancholy deed. Matilda, has no relatives living la this country except a sister, whe is thought to be a clerk iu th Spanish Fork Co-op. Personally she was of rather dark complexion and of largo phy. sique. In the agony of her dying moments, she refused to tell her employers what she had taken and the fact that she had indulged in the dangerous poison was only discovered by accident in the finding of the bottle whicln she had evidently secreted. |