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Show HIS REASON IS GONE The Board of Medical Examiners Decide that Charles W. Austin's Mind is Dethroned. i THE TRAGEDY OF A CIGARETTE. The Mysterious "Gold Cure" Takes a Part in the Heartrending Flay Removed to the Asylum at Provo This Morning. Adjudged insane by the board of medical examiners, Charles YV. Austin was last evening even-ing committed to the asylum for the insane. The board of physicians who found the verdict ver-dict consisted of Doctors McLean, Hall and Foster, it requiring but a few moments for them to agree something rare. Addicted to the excessive use of stimulants for many years, an abject and hopeless slave to the fascinations of the deadly cigarette, cigar-ette, his friends and his heartbroken wife decided to test the bichloride of gold cure on tap at the various institutes throughout the country. The- had but little faith in the thing, entertained an unutterable horror of the shooting-iron by which the wine-colored load is tired, and, consulting their own consciences, would have preferred death to the odium of going through life as a graduate of the iusiitute. They were dealing wi;h the fate of another however, and better that he go along as an example of medicated manhood, bereft of old intal-ity intal-ity sore that kepi, alive and fanned by the mysterious chemicals of the "cure" than ne it said they had at cjuietiy w hile death with iis long lingers dragged him into a drunkard's drunk-ard's grave. Accordingly they entered him in the institute in-stitute at Olympia. He was dragged up into tho sho tower, the needle was buried in his arm. Thut night 1 .vas found iu his room with a knife blade hovering over his veins. A sequel to the gold cure! He - as d Banned by one of the attendants and was next found ambling aimlessly down the streets of Seattle where he was taken under cure by the authorities. The "cure" was all the While getting iu a deadlier blow aud it was determined to send him home to Salt Lake. It was tiionght that the tranquility of home life, the freedom from work or excitement would overcome the desolating efforts oi Olyinpiu'.v needle but the drug hud sealed i is doom. , Hi-er'ortfo hold up Cashier Haw'.ey at the mtile of a six-shooter is vi.illy recalled. liis last appearance was as a witnes in his own behalf. As cool as a politician's grasp the day after the struggle Austin told his story. He confessed con-fessed that he h. d became a slave to the two cardinal car-dinal habits and referring to his last and most sensational escapade sain he had procured the whisky and the pistol crime's ugly and unruly twiiis -down town. Brought face to face with the deed that 2-.a l landed him under, the locks of the law, the subject of the inquiry identified Cashi' . Bawley who was the qsott attentive spectator in the chamber. Judge Bartch now took the catechism: ( "What did Mr. llawlev say when you approach, ed him?'' aked the judge. "lie didn't say anything." "Did vou write that order?"' 'I did." "Did vop think of what might be the consequence conse-quence of vour act 'r'" "I d .n't'know that 1 did;'" "Did not the thought that you were about to coinm.t an unlawful act strike you ?" "I don't know '" "Didn't you think of the matter the night previous pre-vious ?" "No sir: I did not." "When did the desire to send for your wife first manifest ltscii .-" "After 1 drank the whisky." "Are you sure- that you didnot drink the whisky after? " "Yes sir; I am." "Did you ever have any desire to kill any one?" "No sir." rep): -'i the wftnesl laughingly. 'Would you ! av shot Mr. Hawley ?" "1 had no desire, if he had the mone, to shoot him." "Do you think now that you did wrong?"' "Yes sir "Do on h nk now that you are morally responsible respon-sible fO.- ti a MS ?" ' I n't know about tha."' "D. d - o i : el e :t tha' y ur act would be a severe bloi to o t p opleV' 'I di'i ..ot." "You simply had n impnis ', and thut was to get the money ?" "Yes sir." Further on in the examination witness described how the cashier had dropped before the yawn n i'i i b of iht six oter, described in detail how the weapon had b en prepared for the tragic act, and then. ;-onnJie.i as to his religious leanings, the Case was -e.bmitted with the result at stated. The unfortu ate m.-.n wa- removed to the asylum asy-lum at Provo this morning, where medical science and skilled keepers wiil exert every effort to build r. ason ,.p . n .ts rnfna, |