Show I JUST WHO TIRED OF LIFE FAREWEll MESSAGE LEFT BY 1 JP J.P. WELCH Engineer Writes Will and Then Drinks Potion of Cyanide a jUST 1ST tired of t life that life that Is all f J J J Leaving thi this thIe trite statement all as I tho the only explanation l J J. J P. P Welch 51 i years year old construction engineer known knot I In practically every er mining camp of lh the west committed ll suicide at t th th Shelton hotel 1 1 S rf S. West Temple Tempi street yesterday b by drinking ln a 1 solution I Ills dead lIcad body o of c cyanide of ot potassium was lIl discovered In room at 1130 o'clock last night Coroner Harry S S. S Harper un and tho the police were culled to Investigate l Karly arl yesterday morning morning- Mr tr V Welch eloh left his hie apartment nt at the lie Wabash al ash hotel hotal i where he lie hud had II lived ll sev several years Ho appeared In good od humor Shortly after afternoon afternoon noon h he called at fit tho the Lenox hotel naked for tor a room All 11 had been en engaged en- en I ga ed and ind turning Ills his s stops eps to th Ui the Shull Shelton on ho lio registered ana arni was a assigned ua- ua signed cJ to tho ho room In which attendant attendants discovered his dead death bod body He lie was wa well and on his finger Inger sparkled led a mn magnificent diamond In his last lo testament which ho he out on tin a common block pad Mr 11 Welch willed the lie diamond to Mrs rs F. F F. F Fer For cuson gUson proprietress of th the thA Wabash hotel where ho had lived and left other other oth oth- er Interesting requests and direction Lest Letter Tho lu lust l testament follows Salt S Lake Lako City December 28 ni In 1912 Just tired of ot life that life that is all Call Harry S. S Wales Vales ales phone 11 Hy- Hy Hyland land 31 W. 31 I want Mrs F. F F. F Ferguson son of ot tho the Wabash h hotel to have havo my diamond ring I want Samuel L L. Oliver of Butte Hutto Mont font to have m my watch Notify Butte Batte lodge No 22 F. F A. A M- M L I Butte Butte Mont ont Noll Notify Miss Ora Ore Coon who 18 my mr nl niece c Watkins N N. Y Y care care of ot R. R 1 F. F D. D I would ouM like lIko Dr Gosh Goshen en ento to pronounce tho the brn benediction I would Continued on Pas Page oC 4 Column lUST JUST TIRED OF LIFE I FAREWEll FARENELL MESSAGE I LEfT BY Y 1 JP p WELCH NELCH Engineer Writes Will and Then Drinks Potion of Cyanide from Pa Page Q Ono One request that Welby ell Phillips and his hr brothers sing sInS nt at m my funeral These arc are m my last words J P. P YI WELCH P up S. S st 1 I was as born May lar 18 IS 1855 You will find clothing In nt my trunk at tho time Wabash Yabah hotel to lo lJur bury me In J r 1 P P. W. W V. V When Mrs Ferguson was Informed In last l night of the tragic trag death of Mr 11 Welch and anil that he ho had willed her his diamond she wept convulsively She said she had known Mr Ir Welch TeIch more moro than twenty years eor having found him hima a model man of ot man many fine tine qualities She sa says s 's his wife died man many years ears a ago o and believes beHoves he became c despondent over O having havIng- no children to comfor him during during- his advanced ad years He lie wa was a native of oC Heaver Beaver Dam N. N Y V. where herc he lie received his early edu education Mimming Experience Making the west his home homo more than twenty years ago o Mr Welch elch settled set set- tied I hi n mi Montana on tana and worked as a construction construction con con- engineer at all the principal mines in Helena and Butte In the latter city he affiliated with a lodge of ot Masons From Montana Mr Welch elch came to Utah and anti had hael worked as construction con cun- engineer eng at the Highland Bo Boy mine In ham Ding at the Silver King in Park CIt City and had been associated asso asso- elated with wit other mines about the state as a n. consulting engineer During investigations ma made e h by Acting ActIng Act Act- Ing Coronet Coroner Harper and Dr Hardie K Lynch a flask was found containing containing- a solution of oC potassium c cyanide A drinking glass which la lay In a a. bed close to hI his hand showed deadly white o cyanide cr crystals Tho The surgeon an announced an- an flounced that death doubtless had come quickly The Tho body was taken to the mortuary of Eber W. W Hall hail It is probable that burial will take place at Butte Butt where he was better known than in Salt Snit LaJ Luke Lake e. e |