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Show jj TRIES TO CARRY HIS DYING WIFE Salt Lake, March 30. After watching watch-ing all night by the bedside of his dying wife, who had been in St Mark's hospital for five days, Herman Harju, a Finnish miner from Bingham, became grief-crazed at 11 o'clock yesterday yes-terday morniug, wrapped the woman in a blanket, lifted her from the bed and tried to carry her in his arms from the institution. Terror-stricken nurses screamed and they and the hospital authorities had to use force to prevent the frenzied fren-zied husband from carrying away the dying wife. Harju made threats of violence and declared that if he was not allowed to take his wife away he would destroy the place, A hurry call was phoned to the police po-lice station and Sergeant Wire and Officer Hendrlckson responded. Har ju was lUKen to ine siauuu, uui ue-fore ue-fore the officers had arrived there Mrs. Harju had expired. The bereaved miner and a friend who was at the hospital with him were detained by the officers for an hour until the husband had regained calmness. Ho was then allowed to return to the hospital and make arrangements ar-rangements for sending his wife's body to an undertaker. Mrs. Harju, critically ill, was taken to the hospital last Saturday. From the first there was little hope for her recovery. The husband called at tho hospital several times daily to visit tho dying wife and remained, at her bedside Tuesday night. The severe nervous strain temporarily unbalanced his mind. To the officers he said that his only thought was to keep with him the woman he loved and that ho never intended to do bodily harm to any of the nurses or attaches of tho hospital. Mrs. Harju was 30 years of age, the husband is thre years her senior. He Is a sober and hard-working miner and the officers are convinced that it was only his great grief that drove him to the rash act of attempting to remove tho dying woman, oo |