Show CUT HIS THROAT A demented miner operates upon ills throat with a pen knife shortly before 7 last evening while dr benedict was at supper a telephone ring summoned him to the instrument when ho wag informed that a roan with his throat cut was lying on the side walk a short distance below the old city pottery on main street iu Salt Lake city he immediately proceeded to the spot indicated and found a man who gave bis name as nicholas odgers lying as stated with an ugly gaping gash from which a pool of gore had run and accumulated on the parapet some one in the neighborhood ob bained some claths cloths and wound around the bleeding neck when the doctor with a couple of bystanders lifted the wounded man into the surgeons buggy and the would be suicide was conveyed to the city hotel here dr benedict elicit ed from odgers his name that he was aiom gintic tintic and also the fact that ho had been at the hospital the night previous but as he was not in the doctors ward he was not aware of his presence there on monday night telephoning to the sisters hospital he was informed that such a man had stayed there last night and those in the hospital thought he was still there A hack was procured and the poor fellow sent to the hospital with directions to the sisters as to his treatment when he got there andrew smith jr who wes present soon after the cutting stated to a herald reporter last night that odgers was walking down main street about 7 last evening and met a young man near where he was found by dr benedict and asked him if he bad a knife the person addressed answered affirmatively but added that it was not very sharp and in what he wanted to do with it oh I 1 want to use it a little replied odgers the young man handed him his pocket knife when he deliberately opened it drew it a couple of times across his throat and fell the gash inflicted was an ugly one completely revering the wind pipe and leaving a ghastly opening which was sickening to contemplate while lifting him into the buggy odgers remarked that he owed some man a large sum of money winch he never expected to be able to pay and he thought he might as well die to another he stated that some one was after him for killing a man but he said that he was innocent of the deed it was the general impression that the man had been drinking excessively and being leaded besides was demented while at the city hall last evening he could speak but imperfectly his articulation being scarcely audible because of the severing of his wind pipe sau lake herald |