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Show SWALLOWS POISONED BEER: DEATH SWIFT Salt Lake, Oct IS Levi Rose. 21 years of age, committed suicide by drinking poisoned beer in the presence pres-ence of his wife in room 12 of tho Imperial Im-perial rooming house on State street at S o'clock vesterday morning. Tho young mnn was well known to the police and Is said to have been a drug user. A realization of the hopelessness of trying to overcome his habit Is assigned as the cause for tho act As Rose was about to drink the beer his wife asked him for some of It. "No," he said, "this Is carbolic acfd, and I am going to end it all." As soon as he had swallowed the contents of the g'ass. Rose fell to the floor, writhing in pain The police were summoned The man died In . tho ambulance on the wa to tho . emerrono hospital. Tho body was taken to the O'Donnoll undertaking i rooms. Coroner H. S. Harper investigated inves-tigated the death and concluded that It was a plain case of suicide. Rose's mother lives at 5fi4 Somcrby court. A brother and a sister also live In thlc citv. . oo |