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Show ALIEN TWICE FOILED IN SUICIDE ATTEMPT SALT LAKE, March G. Failing in an attempt to commit suicide by cutting cut-ting arteries of his wrist with a piece of tin, Paul Conzock, enemy alien, interned in-terned in the Third war prison camp at Fort Douglas, hanged himself from a rafter in the prison guardhouse. Conzock was in the last throes of strangulation when cut down just in time to save his life. The prisoner's neck was badly stretched and he will have a rather bruised throat and sore wrist for a time. Conzock made the two attempts' upon his life yesterday morning in : quick succession. The German, who j has been in Uie civilian enemy alien section of the camp for some time, was recently placed in the prison guardhouse guard-house for safekeeping, it being deemed dangerous by the ofllcers to leave him at liberty in tho compound. Conzock is said to be addicted to tho use of drugs, and has given evidence of mental men-tal unbalance. |