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Show lVF SALT LAKE CRAVING FOR DRUG CAUSED HER TO BEG 1 Salt Lake. Feb. 10. 'I am not dishonest dis-honest by intention," and 1 onlv be ged for money when the craving for morphine drove me to It," said Mrs George Davis last night in the cltv jail, where she is being held on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Mr Davis has achieved notoriety no-toriety at different times by tearfully beseeching various business men of this citv for money with which to buy a railroad ticket back to her bythlcai home In Provo. or to buy medicine for a sick baby, etc "I wanted the money to buy mor phlne with" said Mre. Davis last night. ' But if I am cured of the drug there will be no more temptation to do as I hae done Mrs Davis Is now being treaied by J, S Barker a hypnotist Matron ford of the city jail is lending her help in attending to the details of th I treatment In a desk drawer In the ! matron's office Is a pint bottle filled with morphine In solution Sin Lais Is permitted to have small doses from this bottle at gradually lengthening in tervals of time The bottle, however, never becomes empty, for each time that a spoonful of the solution Is poured out a spoonful of water 1 poured Into the bottle. |