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Show L0CAL MAN COMMITS SUICIDE SENDS BULLET INTO BRAIN 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 mean that, then hero goes!" With t'. j words Qua LI nil Btepped back from tho door of his father-In-law's homo Sunday night and sent a bullet crashing Into hla brains. Mrs. Tennesson, tho mother-in-law with whom ho had been talking when tho last fateful words were said wns momentarily stunned by tho Biiddcn-ncss Biiddcn-ncss of tho act but recovering hcrscll she ran nearly n quarter of a mile to tho nearest telephono nnd notified the police. City Marshal Cranney, accompanied ac-companied by Mr. James of tho local garago nnd Wnlter Benson, of this city, made tho run by automobile, and they wore followed In a few moments by Drs. E. 8. Budge and County Physician Phy-sician Clark. The body lay Immediately In front , of the rear door where It had fallen, a small pool of blood showing where tho head had struck against tho houso , In falling. Life was extinct, nnd undertaker un-dertaker Llndqulst was notified nnd took tho remains In charge. That tho deed was plainly premeditated pre-meditated Is amply revealed by the letters found upon the body. Upon an envelope had been written In a scrawling hand, "To anybody that finds me: My name Is Ous Lind, pleaso notify Mrs. N. P. Tomesson of imy body, her address la Logan, Utah." Just prior to -the deed tho dead man had handed Mrs. Tommeson two let-y let-y ters. One of theso wns nddressed to berself, and the other to her daughter, tho wife of tho suicide. Both of tho letters were written in Danish and tho tenor of tho same wad to the effect that ho had shown himself him-self unworthy of their further Indul gen ce. Ho also commented upon tho 'Patience which they had exercised In .bearing wltti his weaknes8, and requested re-quested tho wife of refrain from marrying mar-rying again until their children were grown. The deed was commltteed at about 10:30 Sunday evening. Mrs. Tome-uon, Tome-uon, tho mother-ln-Iaw who lives at 295 West Tenth North street, was Just preparing to retire, nor younger daughter and son having already preceded pre-ceded her. Sho had been oppressed with a feeling of nervousness and had Just stepped to tho front door to ste that It was locked for. tho night whon Lind stepped In quietly at tho rear. Mrs. Tomesson was startled by the abrupt nppenranco of tho man who Immediately began Importuning her ' j- to let him again make up with his wife. It wns upon her nssurance that further overturos were useless that tho words above quoted were uttered. Immediately ho stepped out of the screen door nnd pulling n 32-callbro revolver from his pocket he sent the bullet crashing through his brnln. The muzzlo of the 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, aa a carpenter nnd also having attained some notoriety as a wrestler, has been living In Idaho for some time past and returned to the city Just n few days ago. His falling was an ap-petlto ap-petlto for drink and this had led to moro or less unpleasantness nt homo finally resulting In his wife's refusal to live with him longer. Mrs. Lind with her 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 the effects were examined nt the morgue. Tho funeral will bo of a private nature, and will be held from the Ltndqulst undertaking parlors, nt 10 o'clock this morning. |