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Show HTEIUSEN HELD AT POLICE STATIOIU AS UNBALANCED Officers Peterson and Hearn took L. C. Mortensen of Brigham City into custody this morning and the man was placed In the detention room at the city jail to await word from his relatives In Brigham City. Mortensen is the man who fainted on Twentv-fifth Twentv-fifth street, near Washington avenue, Tuesday afternoon and was taken to the Dee hospital. He was attended by Dr. Clark who decided that the man waB mentally deranged. He was released from the hospital the same night and yesterday he camo to the police with a tale that he had been badly mistreated and had lost $25 between the Culley drug store and the hospital. It was evident he waB either partially under the Influence Influ-ence of liquor or mentally unbalanced and one of the officers placed him on the Brigham City car yesterday evening and told him to stay on and go home. Ho jumped off the car, however, just as It was starting for the north and nothing was heard from him until this morning. About 11 o'clock a report came o the station from the Culley drug store to the effect that Mortensen wr3 In the store acting atrangoly and had tried to purchase some carbolic acid. Ha wa then taken into cuniody. i i |