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Show SALi LAfii AN9 STATS NER SALT LAKER iconrrniiiciDE SALT LAKE. Aug! 10. William Ma-F.on, Ma-F.on, JO years nf age, an employe of the Kimball Van & Storage company, is ljlng In St. Mark hospital in a I locailous condition, as the result of firing a 38-calluer bullet in his K-fi hieast r.ver the heart at 1 1 : ;:0 la:H ri'ght. done with suicidal Intent. Mason, It is said, had been drinking drink-ing heavily during the evening with a number of companions and finally wound up at the Pioneer saloon, M Went First South strpet. After In-ltlng In-ltlng n friend to Join him In a drink he walked Into the lavatory and fired the bullet Into his breast The act was committed owing to a rerloiis setback In his love affairs. It. being unld by his friends that he Is in love with a woman In Tonopah, Xcv. Put he has been unfortunate In :(latIonship with her, it Is claimed, and tho result was tho desire to end Lis life. During the pa.st week he had been very desponvlent, drinking to excess, Tarly last evening he was In the placo In which he laer attempted to tak1 his life, and had written tho woman a. letter. In his pocket was found x returned telegram addressed to Mrs. V. A. Gloason, Tonopah, Nov., which hod been sent back with the advice that the woman could not be located. lie was removed to tho emergency hospital, where Dr Sprague was summoned sum-moned to attend him. Dr. Sprague made superficial examination and found that the bullet had entered the ic(t breast just above the heart, piercing pierc-ing the lung. Mason Buffered consii-ctp.ble consii-ctp.ble pain and was removed to the 1-ospital, where he uow Is. |