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Show OGDEN YOUNG WBiSAfl TRIES ! TO KILL SELF j Otto Meek, Former Ogden Business Man, Is Mentioned Men-tioned in Case FEATURES UNUSUAL: Pulls Trigger, Waits and, Then Calls Taxi to Reach Hospital i i Apparently despondent bernuse of' her experiences with a loer. v'nn , 'she said waa ( tto Meek, Helm Eass. j j 20 years of ace, a stenographer em-1 Ployed at the Ogden Paint. Oil & Glass j (company and residing with he par-j ;ents on North Washington avenue, at-j j tempted suicide sometime between i7 o'cloek end 9:30 o'clock last night at the office where she was cm-I cm-I ployed. The girl shot herself, according to her state me ut mad 1o tin polite... ut 'below the heart ith a J5 calibre automatlt: revolver and th'-n calmly plared the weapon back In a drawer a, her d-k. ; She Ihn s.'it around the office and Jabout 0:30 o'clock telephoned for a 'taxii 1 1 1 ; :id axk-d the driver lo la kc her to the hospital, statin? that she had had .i miscarriage, KIJJS I K M 1 N Ju.si as she entered the hospital .-he jtold the attendants that she had shot herseif and asked to have a physician attend her. I Dr. Walter E. halen was called and discovered that the bullet had en-ti-red the body Juxt below the heart and had passed through the body. I The roind was Jagged in front nnd Mr-;meut in tin- bark and this lead the I police to believe that possibly she had been hot and was shielding someone, as they pointed out that usually the wound at the point of entrance in the body Is clean and is Jagged where the 'bullet haves the body The powder I burns on the girl's garments, however.! Indicated lo the police that she had apparentlv hela the gun close to hcr jbody in an attempt to shoot herself through the heart. j Immediately upon learning that the 'girl had shot herself the taxlcab driver' ! drove to police headquarters and In -1 !formt-d the police and Sergeant OeorgOl Wardlaw and Mutorey. le otfii- r C E- j iL-iser began an Investigation of the .occurrence. In a conversation with the policoj the parents r Ihe girl said that for J (the past two years sdH- had been keep-! ing company with Otto Meek and later on at the hospital under questioning (by Sergeant Wardlaw the girl admit-) ,ted that she had been keeping company com-pany with Otto Meek, but said that I sir had not sen him since September when he was here in connection with ithe making of a picture for the F.im-ious F.im-ious Players-Losky Itotlon Picture cor-j poratlon. i Joseph E. Evans, district attorney, was called to the hospital by the au-1 Ithorltlea for ih.- purpose of getting a; 'dying statement from the girl. CI! E POK Kl OVERT. After consulting with Ir Whab-n however, District Attorney Evans deluded de-luded that there was no ned for such la !tatement at this tirne. Inasmuch as :he girl had not Ixjen informed that she was dying and I hat there seemed to be a good chance for her recovery. When questioned by the police about iher relations With uto Meek her eyes I filled up with tears and she, after ad-inUltlng ad-inUltlng that she had been keeping eonipanv with him, refused to say an lnon- The police were also prevented Lby the orders of the physician from , MueKtioning the girl at any length. Chief of Detectives Robert Burk. In an Investigation at the office where the girl was employed, dug the bullet , that passed through her body out of I'he back of the .hair In which fdi had been seated when she attempted to kill herself. He is conducting a further Investi- gatlon of the shooting and the clr-i clr-i eumstanees today. i Dr. Whalen said this morning after an examination made of the girl's ! wounds that the bullet had evidently J entered the loft Chest below the hear:. - Passed entirely around the chest wall AM out of her hack. ' He said that he did not bellev that the lung had be.-n pdnctuv.-d and that her chu.nor.-s for recovery were favorable favor-able at the time he made the examlna- - Hon |