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Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-05-26 | Page 17 | Thomas Tried "Bluff" to Scare His Wife

Type issue
Date 1907-05-26
Paper Inter-Mountain Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Thomas Tried "Bluff" to Scare His Wife
Type article
Date 1907-05-26
Paper Inter-Mountain Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 17
OCR Text I THOMAS TRIED BLUFF M H 10 SCARE seARE HIS WIFE c his hl wife upbraided up him for Cor becoming Intoxicated Thomas Thomal Thomas residing at South Third Vest West street made mado a n bluff at suicide h by pretending pretend pretend- ing log to tal take tako o carbolic a acid l early curly Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day morning When hen the time row waxed warmest warm arm est cst he lie exclaimed Id Ill rather be he in b h l 1 than here and picked up a n bottle filled with carbolic acid The bottle JoUle was drained all right but hut not down tho the mans man's throat The Tho fler fiery acid was allowed to trickle on the floor The frantic frantl wife telephoned to police headquarters headquarters head head- quarters u It few fete minutes after fiCler midnight Saturday morning and the patrol wagon wagon wag wag- on made c a 0 up hurry-up run When hen tho time of officers rIcers arri arrived arrid d thc they were surprised t to find that there was no corpse to remove re- re remove remove re re- move and that tho limo dead one ono was pretty much alive after all Thomas was taken to police headquarters and antI after nr a n few fow minutes' minutes st stay was wu s allowed to lo go home His Ills cheek cheI where e some gom of the acid had L fallen lIn was slightly slight ly Iy burned jW
Reference URL https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6h71cst/3913833