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Show ATTEMPTS SUICILE IN THE CITY JAIL. Salt Lake. Oct 0. Walter Watson, thirty-one years old, believed to bo tho man who has flooded Salt Lake with raised silvor certificates, In which tholr denomination was changed from $2 to $10, through the skillful manipu- ! latlon of a pon, was arrested last night y as the result of the alertness or A. O. Cooper proprietor of tho grocery rtt 105 West Third South street. After Watson had mado a partial confosslon to Detecllvos Earl Ripley" and Gcorgo Clovdland, who took him to police headquarters, lie attempted to swallow a lump or strychnine, almost al-most ns big as tho end or his little finger But before he could pass It beyond his lips tho, poison was knocked knock-ed from his handB by Dotectlve Clevo-Jand. Clevo-Jand. He fought viciously lor pos-b0s.sion pos-b0s.sion of a box of twenty-four grains of strychnine, which he had In his pocket, but finding himself overpowered overpow-ered refused to talk further and was locked up in the city prison i nfi |