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Show M CASLIN IRRESPONSIBLE. Those Who Knew Him Best Certain Ho Wns Insane. More light wns thrown on the causes lending tn the Suit Palace trnge lv es-teidny es-teidny and It all tenls to Indkate that tho peipetratoi of the dtcl was entliely Irresponsible for his nits I his 1 thc view tnken by all who hive known hlm best and longest At least one nf the taues thnt drove him to dissipation wns an timontrolla-blo timontrolla-blo Infatuation for lili slstei In law, who has male her homo with his wife The oung lily repulse 1 his advances and the rebuff made hlm moodv and Irritable soon nftor hi 1 eaan his last Ii Inking bout he took n t ran nt the t Ulmo lonmiiig-house and m nt to sleep I hi landlady noticed th smell of gas and traced It tn McCaslin s room W hen she entucd nnd turned nIT tho gis her lodger siis almost nsphvxlitod 'onw of bis lolgo rrlends took hlm to the sanitarium whore he took vapor baths for pevenl dis to eliminate the gas from his system MAY 1IA U MEANT M IflDH In view of the note found ln his clothing cloth-ing roire ton dijn ago and casual re' marks dropped to his acquaintances, there Is ground for the belief that lie turned on lhe gis with sulci lal intent und not nceldentill ns he clulme 1 nf-teiwnrd nf-teiwnrd The Inhalation or such a quantity or gas doubtless did something some-thing to dlttirb his ment il lulnnce HAW ItUD-UyUD MICE As a lurther Indication ot his stits of mind nt Ihc time o tho shooting, a friend stales tint, while drinking ln a saloon Pildaj evening he called intention inten-tion to the mice with red ejes thnt he snw running about the floor Kinilly ho said he wnuld f,o home and get his gun and shoot the mice out n old lady who sells rnpers nt Second Sec-ond South nnd Mnln stieet sns thnt Met aslln npproiched her I-ilday night mid said Have you seen that woman? ' 'What womnn?" nsked tho " news-seller news-seller Why mv wife" he replied JulgeJ T McConnell James Mease, W P Cnlthorpo nnd other old rrlends of tlio unfortunate man fiom Vernal were lu the cltj jesterdiy nnd dls-itissod dls-itissod tht trngedj. All of them were shotked beond meisure b the terrlblo affair and most or them weie nstun-Iplted nstun-Iplted thnt n mm or stub genial manners man-ners and kin 11 dlpposltl n ns McCuslln should be n litlm of homicidal manl i Mr. Mease sild, however nNonnous win n duinkino ' Hlnce hearing the clrtumstincea I nm not surprised M(C nslln was exceedingly ex-ceedingly gool nnlured when sober In fact, It was lmposlble to make him nnd but when he ha 1 been drinking he wns nbnormally sensitive anl quick to tnkt nffense ut nn thing thut seemed to him like in insult Whit mine him mole dangerous to fooi with wns hli manner when angry He would laugh when In n luge ind the angrier ho got the more he would laugh This wool 1 deceive any one who did not know hlin well Only n dny or two ngo I warned some men who wore Joking with hlm that he was a hid man tn fool with when he hod been drinking I can Im-ni,lne Im-ni,lne If he thought ha was being treated treat-ed with rldlcub by his companions what his reelings would be and readily understand how he tamo to commit the act ' Mr Cilthorpe the Vernal merchinl reached town Frl la evening but ill I not leirn of thi ti igedy until jestor-d jestor-d ij morning Ho knew McCnsIln bet tcr piobably than nny other mm In Utah as thej came rrom tht same neighborhood In Tcnnesree nnd weie In business together at Vernal ror many years He sent n telegtum tn McCnsIln McCns-Iln rather a I'lt-hls respected lennes ce rarmer and win 1 to J L Nuivell or Steamboat Springs Colo, who married mar-ried McCnsI n s sister The litter tele-gnphod tele-gnphod haik to know what he could do Mr Ciilthorpe sjjs that he can re call but one lint into In which McCaslin McCas-lin hid used a gun before, und In that case ho was cleirl) tn the right SHOT TItAC S PARTNER It wis In 16S7 whtn McCaslin was running the Verml Kxchingo naloon On escaping from the Utah penltontlnrj Hirry Trncj and David I.int went to Vernal One da In McCaslln'a place, Lunt went on the rimpnge nnd made n munleious assault with a bottle on nn ither (UHtnmer He cciuld not be suh-lucd suh-lucd peaieibls nnl McCnsIln took his nvolvtr fiom l hln I the bar nnd shot him lu the left breist Lant recovered nnd shoul) nfteiward, went to Colorado Colo-rado with Tricy nnl killed Vulentlno lloj MtCnslIn vv is entirely exonerated exoner-ated for this shooting MOIHEH-IN LAW TALKS Another peison In Salt Like who tnkea a deep lnti-st In the trngodj la Mrs A It Su mg of I.lghth Wie-t stieet She Is the mother of Kutlc Mriing McCnsIln s dlvnreeil wife lhe Intter own n home at Vern il give i to her b her roimei husbind at the time the divorce was granted but sh his been attenllng a business college In Suit Lake until last June when she went tn Vernal t s end tho summr vacation Mis stiang snys thnt Mc C'uslln was a gool piovlder and very duvotPd In hip son His greatest taull was his llcklenisa In nlTnlra or the heart and Ihls wis the cnusc of her daughters diver Mrs Strang ie-malneil ie-malneil on frlen 11 turns with her ox-son. ox-son. in-law She was purtly prtpnied for what haip ne,i i rlday night by n conversation she had with hlm about a week befote iai.1. hIIL TO TIB OOOD" "I met him on tho stieot ' she sail and was about lo pass hlm when ho called ti me and I tinned nrounl He usked nbout m diughter und nddod If she Phould never pee me ngaln tell Katie to I good It wns not so much the words that Impressed me as the wtiv ho said them It la a strange co Incidence lhat Prl li the ela of the shooting was the nintli anniversary nr his llrst inarilngi Ho wan a good-natured good-natured man but ho was very sensitive to ridicule when he bid hton drink Ing ' Mrs Strang telegrnphel the news of hi deith to her clmighter con nn ion op win: The hormi nf the affair la heavily on Mrs Mriuallns pplilia esterdny Her eyes wore re 1 with weeping and slio sought sleep in M,n Hho mate two visits to tip hoHpitnl In the morn Ing one beforo and tho ol hei Just uftcr her liirsbmda dmih In tho afternoon she viewed the hnly ut 0 IKinneli s un dertiiklng puriois 1 ho plctllio appenr lug Willi IhN tinkle Is one Hint she took hciscK u khnu lime ago with her cn cum ri It is an cxcollcnt like ntu. |