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Show lISSo'llFE Deputy SheriiT Sperry Grabs! Deadly Vial in the Nick of Time. DELINQUENT ATTEMPTS I TO SWALLOW CHLOROFORM Thought of Returning to State Industrial School Cause of -Rash Act. Maude Johns, who has been out of the State industrial school on parole, in a moment of discouragement, induced by thought of being returned to the iusti- i tufion, tried to end her life by taking chloroform in tho lower corridor ofJhej administration building about 11 oVIbekj Saturday morning. Deputy Sheriff ' Sperry obtained the two-ounce vial of the poison which the girl hnd raised to hoi' lips and destroyed it. Tho girl was taken to the country jail, when she had to be carried upstairs by Jailer Bur-mdge. Bur-mdge. whose ponderous frame was too I much for her efforts at resistance. Officers of the juvenile court took the I girl into custody Friday night whi.'o die wns wandering tho streets 'in bad company com-pany She was kept at th. citv iail for tllO nrrli4 .. .wl C3l 1 - ..rt-i, iumi jiiLumay morning ap-Pen ap-Pen red before Judge Gowans to explain why she had broken parole. Her story was unsatisfactory, and upon Ihe decision deci-sion to return her to the industrial school Deputy Sheriff Sperry essayed lo escort the girl from 1hu juvenile courtroom to tho lower floor 'of the building. Ho was warned that a vial or chloroform had been found on her .by Mrs. Young of the juventle court. Officor Acts Quickly. He started downstairs with his charge, and ,as the two approached a point about" midway in the lowor corridor, cor-ridor, she suddenly raised tho vial to hor hps and tried to dash, the poison down her throat. The deputv grabbed tho bottle and, after a sharp tussle, sue-I sue-I ceeded in tuking it. from the despondent girl. She was taken to the sheriff's oftice, whore she became obduniU and , would say nothing concerning her rash act. Oil the way to the coun'v jail she stopped nud refused lo proceed further uuless the patrol wagon was called. She told Deputy Sheriff. Sparry that ' .he would never tako anything but her leud i body to Ogdcn. At the county, jail she j 1 created a scene by refusing to go up- I stairs, and .Jailer Burbidge was toreed j lo lift hor bodily and carrv her upstairs. up-stairs. She was searched, mid nothing' was' found on her. A eloso watch wifi be kept to prevent a repetition if the attempt at suicide. The Johns girl was committed lo the industrial. school some time ngo for dclinquoncv. but was later i released on parole. She was taken to I Ogdcn Saturday afternoon. |