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Show NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH BY TRANSIENT Low Fields, a "hop head." who told tho police ho had. come from Omaha, took fifteen tablets, each tablet containing contain-ing one ono-hundreth of a grain of hyo-cine hyo-cine hydro bromnte, in tho American house Friday night, and a few minutes later foil down the stairway. Tho inmates in-mates of tho house, thinking that he had committed suicide, telephoned the police, who took tho man to tho emergency hospital, where he later regained consciousness. con-sciousness. Fields told the polico that ho had been using the drug to quiet his nerves. Before Be-fore lie had regained consciousness. .Taller WlUccnson, assured that tho man would recover. Jokingly asked a nogro patient in the hospital to call him in case the man died, and to bo sure to call 16ud enough so that ho (Wilkinson) would hoar. After lookinr at the covered form on tho table, the negro nnswerod: "You will sure hear me if ho dies!" |