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Show PRISONER BELIEVED INSANE. Sheriff Finds Hermann Sneider Making Noose In Cell. OGDEN. Feb. 2. A suicide at the county jail prohablv was prevented by Sheriff T. A. DeVlne this afternoon when he noticed Hermann Sneider, an inmate of the padded cell, preparing a noose in the end of a strap that he had attached to a steam pipe near the ceiling. Sneider. who is believed Jnsane. denied he wished to take his own Itfe. but the evidence was such that Sheriff DeVlne will ask that the man be examined by a lunacy board. Sneider. who was removed from t he city jail to the padded cell in the county jail last Sunday, js suffering from acute alcoholism. Sneider is about 40 years of age and a stranger in Ogden, |