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Show SALT LAKE UNIDENTIFIED MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Salt Iikc. Mar. 17 An unidentified unidenti-fied insane man, supposed to be a Finlander, about Ht years of age, attempted at-tempted to commit suicide in the padded pad-ded cell at the city jail yesterday afternoon af-ternoon and came so near succeeding succeed-ing that u took two hours of strenuous strenu-ous work on tho part of police of f i - (clals to resuscitate him. The man was taken into custody at ' the gravel pit near the Warm Springs land it took a haIf-do7.en police offl- 1 f crs to effect his capture. The police po-lice had gone to the grael pit after the man, upon receipt of a telephone message that he wa8 throwing rocks ai everything and everybody ami was apparently demented. When the policemen po-licemen arrived thov found the man at the top of an embankment and he at once bognn in shower rocks upon i them. The surrounded him. however, how-ever, and wore slowly closing in upon up-on him, when he fell backward from the embankment and was rendered unconscious. This made his capture easy He was taken to tho station where he was attended by Dr. Sprague and ! placed In the padded roll Feirlnvr that he would attempt to harm himself, him-self, a close watch was kept on him, I but he outwitted the officers. Iater he was found unconscious from suffocation, suf-focation, having climbed up to the I bars, made a loop out of a long. : strong oeoktie, which he had placed around his nod., tod the other end to the bars, and then swung himsell off. He was qui. Idy cut down, hut it required nearly two hours to restore him to consciousness. Later he repeatedly climbed to the bars thrust bis arms through and ap-parently ap-parently tried to break them The man hfis not spoken a word since he was taken Into custody and pays no attention whatever to anything that In said to him. |