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Show NEGRO PREVENTED FROM ENDING LIEE Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. .Sept. 15.- Mis desire to die and the Inability to procure the right kind of poison landed I .roiw.nl U caver, 3f yeara of age. in-cm. In the city jail thtu uf to. i noun on a barge of dlMurhlng the peace. iK-teetlve Rbei t llurke and Chauffeur Chauf-feur Guy Nelson assert that Weaver Wal Intoxicated, but 001 to such an extent that he was una ware uf what i-ourse he waa attempting to take. Announcing in advance thai he was tired uf life and BO light to die. Weaver appealed to K. L. Hunter, drug clerk at the T. It. I'arr drug aiore. fur "plenty" Of strychnine. The negro offered the clerk It for enough poison to produce deal h. Without haaTtaong even on .such an unusual un-usual demarnl, the clerk prepared a large dose of quinine and milk sugar, which hail all the appearance of h death potion, aa well as some of the unsavory quail-ties. quail-ties. To hi surprise the negro decided that the dose would not produce death and insisted in-sisted on a dollar 6 worth of stryi lmine. He bm-ame so insistent that another clerk 111 the store called the police. Weaver Was bttll arprulng about the matter when he was gently hut firmly led out of the store and Into the motor patrol. |