Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-10-23 | Page 8 | Lived to Describe Death from Opium

Lived to Describe Death From Opium Brain a Stage for Trooping Memories, With Wondrous Setting of Color. t NEW YORK, Oct 22. "On his uppers," desperato because ho could not turn a collcgo education to account, and finally repulsed by a mllllonalro friend from whom he sought aid, James R. Jones drank fi. solution of opium and lived to dcscrlbo tho sensations of "dopo death." In pollco court he said: "Thrills of pleasure ran throuch me, and then vivid pictures of ImprossU'o scenes In my llfo wero enacted In my mind. Whllo these scenes woro beforo mo I seemed to havo no part in them, but was llko a spectator "Then a heavier feeling camo over me, nnd creat walls of wavering, dazzling color seemed to surround mo. At first tho colors woro tho daintiest pastel Ghadcs, making an opalescent offect, but tho tones grew In Intensity until tho walls woro glaring, turgid things, and then suddenly somothlng seemed to snap and I thought I was In a black dungeon. "Soon my heart began to feel light, a3 If it wero being painlessly lifted up, and tho next thing I know I had a faint vis-Ion vis-Ion of somo ono standing over me It was tho ambulanco surgeon. It was told that a low moments moro would havo killed mo."