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Show A LOCAL MAN COMMITS SUICIDE ' SENDS BULLET INTO BRAIN X Gus Lind, Unfortunate Victim of Own Folly. Had Just Returned to City. Writes Letters to Wife And Her Mother. Act Evidently Premeditated. Is Father of Three Children. Wife Out of City. Married Life Had Not Been Satisfactory. ; "If you "lean that, then hero goes!" With ti J words Qua Ltnd stepped back from the door of his father-in-law's homo Sunday night and sent n bullet crashing Into his brains. Mrs. Tomcsson, tho mother-in-law with whom ho had been talking when the last fateful wordB were said was momentarily stunned by tho suddenness sudden-ness of tho act but recovering herselt ', she ran nearly a quarter of n mile to the nearest telephone and notified the police. City Marshal Cranney, accompanied ac-companied by Mr. James of tho local garago and Walter Benson, of this city, made tho run by automobile, and they wero followed In a few moments by Dfs. E. S. Qudge and County Physician Phy-sician Clark. Tho body lay Immediately in front of the rear door where It had fallen, a small pool of blood shawlng where the head had struck against the house , In falling. Life was extinct, and undertaker un-dertaker Llndquist was notified and took tho remains in charge. i..Jhat ,tho deed was plainly pre-meditated pre-meditated 13 amply revealed by tho letters found upon the body. Upon an envelope had been written In a scrawling hand, "To anybody that finds me: My name Is Gus Lind, please notify Mrs. N. P. Tomesson of my body, her address Is Logan, Utah." Just prior to -the deed tho dead man t had handed Mrs. Tommeson two let-V&ters. let-V&ters. One of these was addressed to (JB herself, and the other to her daughter, 2V" the wife of tho suicide. Both of tho letters were written In Danish and tho tenor of the same was to tho effect that ho had shown himself him-self unworthy of their further lndul gence. Ho nlso commented upon tho patience which they had exercised In hearing witji his weakness, ami requested re-quested tho wife of refrain from marrying mar-rying again until their children were grown. Tho deed was committeed at about 10:30 Sunday evening. Mrs. Tomo-sson, Tomo-sson, tho mother-in-law who lives at . 295 West Tenth Ndrth street, was Just preparing to retire, her younger daughter and son having already preceded pre-ceded her. She had been oppressed with a feeling of norvousness and had just stepped to tho front door to see that It was locked for. tho night when Lind Btepped in quietly at tho rear. Mrs. Tomesson was startled by the abrupt appearance of tho man who Immediately began Importuning her - to let him again make up with his wife. It was upon her assurance that further overtures were useless that the words abovo quoted were uttered. Immediately he stepped out of the screen door nnd pulling a 32-callbre revolver from his pocket he sent the bullet crashing through his brain. The muzzlo of tho gun was pressed so firmly against his forehead that the powder burned the flesh. Death was Instantaneous. Lind. who Is well known hero In Logan, having worked for years, as a carpenter and also having nttnlned somo notoriety ns a wrestler, has been living In Idaho for some time past and returned to the city Just a few days ago. His falling was an appetite ap-petite for drink and this hud led to mora or less unpleasantness at home finally resulting in his wife's refusal to live with hlra longer. Mrs. Lind with hor children Is now visiting'' In Idaho and efforts have already been made to notify her of the circumstance. circum-stance. The suicide was well supplied with money, over fifty dollars being found In his pocket when tho effects were examined at the morgue. Tho funeral will be of a private nature, and will be held from the Llndquist undertaking parlors, at 10 o'clock this morning. |