Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-08-31 | Page 10 | Cocaine Fiend Dies in City Jail

COCAINE FIEND FEND DES DIES IN CITY ML JAil W w. I II I. I Mack a cocaine fiend fend who had hat been known to the p police of this city for tho the last ten teu years as a drunkard and for tho the last year or two as BS a more meT phino phine and cocaine fiend feDd died in a colin col cel in I tho the city jail jai about 5 o'clock this morning Mack lack had har gained a fair education in his youth and was a mechanic His downfall commenced a decade ago when ho he became addicted to the drink rink habit Ho He Ho had hall been arrested man many times for drunkenness and in in later Inter years had become an outcast t forsaken by his bis former friends frends Since Mack contracted cd the dru drug habit baoit his mental and moral morl nature was completely completely com corn changed and aDd he lost all al desire for anything but the tho dru drug To gain gaii ain this ho would work occasionally ant and aDd when ho he could not secure employment would live lve b by petty theft an and other devious ways He lie le had been arrester many times within the tho last year tear for vagrancy and ani potty pett larceny lar Efforts to cure him hint were futile fute Mack was wa picked up by Patrolman Cleveland Ceveland at 1 1205 05 o'clock this morning morning morn morn- mor morin ing in and was charged on the docket with va vagrancy rancy Ho lie was as in a pitiable state of collapse and the night nigh jailer W W. V. V H. H Wilkinson paid visits to his cell cel each hour to see seo what could coul be dono done for him Tho The last bat visit was as a at 4 0 o'clock cock when Mack ack wa was apparently resting more easily When Jailer Wilkinson returned to the cell cel at l at o o'clock clock Mack MackS was S dead Tho The boa body was taken to the undertaking of 0 ODonnell O'Donnell Donnel Co where i it will wn bo be prepared for burial burial burial- Mack is believed belo ed to have been abon 30 years of n age e. e Nothing is fa known o ohis of his antecedents