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Show ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A Hallway Braktmiu Is Dltu.orag-iid and Trl.i la Bull til. Oir. Pud Johnson, a brakeman employed, in the yarda of the Union Pacific railway rail-way made an unsuccessful effort to commit suicide at Mrs. Pell's boarding house, 450 West Firjt South street at an early hour this morning. The stomach pump again got in its strokes, however, and he is now slowly recovering from his experience. Tho despondent fellow has been sutleriug w ith bad health for tome time, and resorted to this means of freeing himself f.'uin a tempest of trouble. He drank a ph.al of laudanum lauda-num that was found inclosed iu the follow fol-low ing order: ' Mtn h''f)!"t n : You will see that Laura Ttrtlu.. -ets luy tfius.. and lots In W:i!:a V ul! and do not write home to my T-io:hiT, t , u t lei. toe tit buned hy theioimty iu the poirer'a field. Saui. do not let my nio'lhor know how died; she. will think I am In some foreign country. I wrote her and told her not to write to mo amain. lo not write home. Hun Johnson. His friends will take hold of his case "md try and straighten him out. |