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Show WOMAN SLAVE TO DRUGS ENDS LITE TO ESCAPE HABIT Her Husband. Also "Dope" Fiend, Is In the City Jail. been written soma time ago, but was dated Kabruarv 11. It follows. Halt Lake City. Feb. IS. Dear Belle 1 will write ones more and see how you are and why you don't writ. O. am ao homaick to aee you. and, would Ilk very much to bear from you at least once a year. Thla Is about tha fourth letter t have wrote and no anawer. I have not heard from any of the folks for a long time. How Is Walt's mother? Fred Is doing fin Hs is rdjinjns a barber bar-ber shop In company M at Fort T)ouiea. I am ao thin you would hardly know me. I only weigh lis pounda. When you saw ma I weighed 1M. Walt nearly worries wor-ries hla head off about ms- I have not been able to speak abuve a whisper slno I had smalfpox three tnonrh ago. If I ever get where you are again. I will never leave I get so blue eometlmee. I almost wish I was dead. Walt Is awful good to ma lis never goes out anywhere any-where unless hs can take ms. and I don't cars much about going anywhere. I fl ao mleerable. There was no signature. The person sddressed la aald to b a Mrs. Belle Met-cslf. Met-cslf. her ate tar.' living In Nebraska. Tha body was removed to the undertaking rooms of 0"Donnll a Co., and disposition disposi-tion will probably be mads according to the wishes of rclatlv living In thla city. lBr r paw . a ?f MRS. DOHA JOKES. rtotii she and her husband cuiitii J uaei-s of cocaine, her husband being arrested ar-rested on suspicion of being a seller ol drugs, and compelled to serve thirty days in the city prison for vsgramy. iKna Jones. years old. was found a suicide at her room at a lodging house at 25 West Second i4outh atreet at ti o'i lock yesterday afternoon. Her husband. Welter Jones, when told of his wire's death, seemed atunned and only asked to be allowed to see bar before be-fore sjc was buried. Mrs. J one was one of the worst female drug user tint i the pohe hae hsndled. When without the stimulants, she be-i'h be-i'h me .( demon, U being necessary sometimes some-times lu place her in a padded fell at police headquarters In order to keep hei fiotn violence to herself and others, whan arrested and in thst way krpt from o cuine and morphine, she would some - times become almost insane. It Is though' ' thai lu a sane moment, ahe realised ! what end she was coming and resolve-) . to end all. Jones la "3 veuis old. a barbvi trade. He Is an ex-soldlei. Ilia i - left alone when he was taken bj police laat ttunda) It was foi.tt,l sr had saturated a hgndketc ilef ail chloroform and smothered hei no mouth With It. Whan round, Dr 11. B kiprague thought aha hud been dead alsuii eighteen hours. Mrs. Jones bought the drug at Hoover drug store. Jut Wait Sxond Houth street. She signed tlx- name "ors Adams" on the poison iaglit'1 Whan Mrs. Jonea did not enter nor leave her room yesterday the proprietor of the liouae became nlarmed and notified noti-fied the police. Patrolmen Cony era and Caltnn were sent to investigate and breaking opn the dooi . found the dead woman stretched out on the bed. Two hypodermic syringes were fotuai in her room. She left a lettet . but It seems to hav e no connection a Ith hei taking her life. The letter seems to have |