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Show ORDERED TO COMMIT SUICIDE OR LEAVE. Salt Lake City. June 29. "If yon don't get out of town. by 2 o'clock this afternoon, tie your head in a sack with a heavy rock and jump into City creek." This was the advice plven this morning morn-ing by Patrolnian'M. J. Lyon to Robert Rob-ert Hlggs. a hop-head who is suffering from consumption and a loathsome disease dis-ease and Is in. a bad physical condition. condi-tion. Higgs was arrested a couple of dayH ago for vagrancy and yesterday afternoon after-noon was given a floater, or until 2 o'clock this afternoon, to leave the city. Patrolman Lyon found iilm on North Temple street this morning and placed him under arrest. The man was so unkempt and dirty it was difficult to tell what was his natural color. When brought to the station It was learned that he had until 2 o'clock to leavy town and it was then that Lyon gave him the advice to jump into "the creek. The police are now speculating whether tho unfortunate will leave Salt Lake or commit suicide. |