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Show USE POCKET KNIFE WITH FATAL RESULT Tailor In Hospital Succeeds This Morning In 8econd Attempt At Suicide ' Salt Lake City, May 5. Slashing his body with a pocket knife just above the region of tbo heart, Gun-nhr Gun-nhr Peterson, a tailor aged 39 years' committed sulcldo between 4:30 and 5 o'clock this morning at the County Infirmary hospital. Peterson attempted to kill himself last Wednesday by cutting the radial radi-al artery ot the leg and also the arteries ar-teries ot the ankle. Ills condition was Bcrlous when ho was taken td the hospital, the man being In a very low condition from tho loss ot blood. Potcrson was a tailor living at 420 South State street, according to his own statement. Ho wag unmarried and had no relatives residing in .this city. l.o wa being given free services at the infirmary hospital, after being brought In by tho marshal ot Sandy, whero be made tho first attempt upon up-on his Hie. It Is believed that ho was mentally unbalanced. Nurses at the hospital had kept a cIobo watch over him and he was thought to be recovering. During an unguarded moment, nowever, ho slashed bis body with a pocket knife and died within two hours. The body was taken to the S. D. Evans undertaking un-dertaking establishment. |