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Show oo DRUG FIEND TRIES SUICIDE. Prisoner at City Jail Dashes Head Against Steel Door. SALT LAKE, ScpL 25. Crazed and rendered desperate for U'P want of drugs, Lew Fields, a "hophead" prls-onor prls-onor at the cltv jail, tried to kill himself him-self shortly before noon today.- Running Run-ning the full length of the corridor on the ground floor of the Jail, he daabe-i his head against a steel door and fell unconscious to the concrete floor. Fields was carried quickly to tho emergency hospilul and Dr. H. B. Spraguc summoned. While lying on the operating tablo lie frothed at tho mouth and appeared to bo In a critical condition. Dr. Spraguc look advantage of tho unfortunate unfor-tunate man's condition to lanco a number of ulcers on Fiold's body and l then gave him two doses of morphine. The drug had almost an Immediate I effect upon Fields, and when he revived re-vived he cried to tho physician: "Oh, doctor, you gave; me only two "grains. Pleaso" give mo four grains more. I can't stand it." Fiolds is the man who fought four policemen n fow days ago when a sack of morphine and cocaine was taken away from him. Tho "hop-heads' "hop-heads' are' not clvcn drugs In the jail except by physicians, and Fields hnd gone without the drug so long that he became almost a raving maniac. Tho man was not seriously injured by tho impact of his head against t,ho steel door. oo |