Show I SUCIDE ON A DESERT I I A Body Found With a Bullet Hole Through dead Yesterday afternoon two vaqueros herding cattle for W S Bailey rode into Sutro and reported having discovered the dead dody of a man on the flat near the Douglass tailings reservoir between the mouth of Sixmile Canyon and Cooneys ranch Justice of the Peace Davis of I Dayton was notified and in his capacity of cxoflicio coroner summoned several witnesses and proceeded to the locality They found the dead body of a man sitting sit-ting bolt upright against a bank with a pistol lying in front of him within reach of his hand The man had evidently cvidentv been dead a week The body was in a frightful state of decomposition and the stench arising from it was almost unbearable A cursory examination revealed a bullet bul-let hole in the side of the head and the hair was matted with blood that had flowed from the wound On searching the clothing of the corpse a certificate from Or T luarye to Lewis Hayes for 100 shares of stock in the Gould Curry mine was found This proved to be dV ceaseds name and he was recognized usa us-a middleaged Frenchman who resided for several years in a cabin near Silver City Lyon county He had sold a mine a short time ago and had drank heavily I is surmised that becoming despondent he deliberately deliber-ately went to the spot where his body was found and committed suicide by shooting himself through the head The pistol found in front of deceased has six chambers three of which were emptly The decomposed state of the remains prevented a search for the wounds made by tho other two balls which were probably also discharged in his body A coffin for tho remains was made by the Sutro tunnel employes and they will be interred in the burying ground north of the town An inquest will be held this evening rginia Chronicle J |