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Show SPREE ENDS INjDEATfl Park CHy Man Takes Fatal Fa-tal Dose of Carbolic Acid. ' PARK CITY. Feb. 14. Jere H. Drls-coll Drls-coll committed suicide Monday afternoon. after-noon. by taking carbolic acid., Driscoll had been drinking heavily for several , days and it is supposed that despondency due to the protracted spree caused nim to take, his life. Driscoll was1 about 40 years of age and had resided In Park City for several sev-eral years. About a year ago he had some, trouble with his wife, whom at that time he threatened to kill. He was arrested and agreed to leave town. He did so and remained away until a few months ago, when he returned and began be-gan working at one of the mines. . Mrs. Driscoll runs a boarding-house here. Late Sunday night Driscoll returned re-turned home, and all next day he was noticed to be despondent. About 2 o'clock he took the poison, i Dr. Le Compte was summoned, but when he reached the house it was too late to do any good, and the man expired a few moments afterward. |