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Show Girl Attempts Suicide. Emma Abel Takes Poison, but Bystanders Save Her Life. OoiiKN, No l.i. A joung girl about 20 yeais of age named Emma Abel, whose home is at Logan, Utah, hut who has been working out in Ogden for some time past, tiled to commit suicide last evening by drinking a half ounce of laudanum. She cntcied the rtahna drug store about 10:15 last ni(,ht and bought the drug, then walked up Twcnty-llflh street hill to the alley just west of the Utahna theater, where she slopped to one side and diaiiK the ding. She was observed in the clear moonlight by some passeiby, who look hold of liei and look her back to the drug stoic, wheie Mi Fisher adinlnlsteied an antidote She was then cai rled across the street to Dr. Osgood's olllce.where he used the stomach pump on her, saving her life. What caused the girl to attempt the tasli act is tin-know tin-know r. put It Is supposed she had become be-come despondent and tired of life, and thought It best to end her tioubles She has a sister, whom it Is reported report-ed last week took toothache drops with the Intention of ending her life, but was unsuccessful, a physician being be-ing called In time to save her life. |