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Show A MM ATTEMPT An Overdose of Poison Saves His Life. Old Man Shaeffer Makes a Struggle to "Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil." He Is Resuscitated, But This Morning Makes Another , Trial. . Yesterday afternoon some excitement excite-ment WfIS enilSPrl in Prnm K. T..'.v... Shaeller.theold man who was convicted convict-ed yesterday morning on the charge of larceny, taking strychnine. He went to Pyne & Maiben's drug store and asked for strychnine for the purpose of poisoning wolves at his mine in Rock Canyon. As he had purchased poison before for that same purpos, the clerk thought nothing of it, and sold him a small phial. He went to the office ol A. G. Sutherland, his attorney, and told him if he had anvthinor tn cuv t him, to say it quick, at the same time exhibiting the phial with a small portion por-tion of the strychnine still remaining lie turned to go out of the door, bu fell, and when picked Up was found tc be unconscious. Dr. Bicfeford was summoned and after examination injected in-jected morphine into him, which soon revived him. He was taken to ths jail, and Mr. Gettz. the proprietor oi the Arcade restaurant, for whom Shaeffer had been working, was sent for. When he had been sufficienth recovered, Gettz took him home with him. Dr. Bickford gave it as his opii -ion that Shaeffer must have swallow d about twenty grains of strychnine. The old man is subject to spells ot mental derangement, and this, coupled w ith the fact of his conviction in Justice Jus-tice Brown's court, seems to have let n the cause of his suicidal attemnf Tic has prospected a great deaf in the neighborhood of Rock Canyon, and owns a mine there. Some of the officers offi-cers think that he has a cache of stolen goods somewhere near his mine. He has worked in several places, and has been suspected of stealing in nearly every place. On account of his illness from the effects ef-fects of the roison, sentence was not pronounced on him. When the news was given to him that he would have to appear befor the justice and receive sentence, the old man, who was in Rawling's saloon at the time, became frantic, and exhibiting exhibit-ing the bottle containing strychnine, dramatically exclaimed: "I have lived sixty-three years outside of a prison, and will swallow the contents of this package before I ever enter one!" Luckily, he had taken an overdose,"and Dr. Bickferd resuscitated a supposed ment this 0fntnXt"vlft"iT&36r&-?tia in his atterhpt at self-murder, snd as we go to press is resting easily. He will have to appear in court Monday Mon-day morning, if strong enough, to receive re-ceive sentence. " There is no doubt but that the court may teel inclined to deal leniently with the old man, as it seems that, although he is lawfully convicted, the crime of larceny was not actually premeditated. |