Show Letters W Written r by Ryan On Eve o of Suicide Murder Salt Lake City Utah Sept 3 1918 Mrs Mrs- Verna Bailey Dear Friend I will now write you a few lines as I had promised to I want you to do me one favor favor favor-a a favor that you said you would do today for me In this letter you will find which you can use to suit yourself now or next year You promised me you would put some flowers on that lot so now keep your promise Also here is isa a n. money order receipt for 50 to that man that made that monument ment He has had orders to mark my sons son's and my grave with a marker with the word vord father son son also some writing on th that t monument Please see that he does this work and make him give you a receipt for the tho that I sent him through the mail If ho he says he did not get it trace it with that receipt Little did you know today when we were talking about suicide and how easy it was to die you did not know I was ready to die Now you can see seewhy seewhy seewhy why I did not tell you where I was going I went down to the undertakers undertaker's and told him I would be dead tomorrow and he laughed at me I told him I wanted to pick out my coffin and I went in inand inand inand and picked it out it is a 3 brown wood oak handles all along the sides My funeral expenses will all be paid for I carried insurance I left 1000 1000 for my child and myself to get ea a decent burial So when I am gone I will owe nobody They will only find 44 cents in my pocket Dont Don't let nobody know I gave you hoping you will get it in this letter and if you need it for yourself use it Well I have four more letters to write and then I Iam Iam Iam am done with life I am only keeping the promise L made to my wife That child begged me not to go I brought him on this earth to do right by him and when they said I could not have him himI I had hada a right to take 1 Him im to his mother He knew w ever since the of August he was going to die As I told you today you would receive a Jetter letter tomorrow It is now 1110 p p. p m m. and my wife died a a. a m m. and I am going to make it the same time If I can So SoI SoI SoI I will close for all time from now en on only hoping Vernie you will willbe willbe willbe be a good True Woman the rest of your life Good bye with love and friendship From a true friend Signed JAS J J. RYAN P. P S S S. S I wrote your mother but I did not tell her I gave you any money Also I do not want them to find your address in my room so here it is You and family are the only ones allowed at my funeral Good Good- Good bye ye Signed JIM Snit City CUT Utah Sept 3 1918 C C. C 0 O. O Dear Sir Mr flail check for tor 50 rO with nUb which instructions instruction you ou will stork urk ork under you will put Iut on mj- mj Monument over v nl my w wife's name name- my naume name an II Inscribed here Jn Jas J. J Ryan 1918 1855 Also Ainu n a marker nt at the thc JIen of ot JU my grave wrote with Father on ItAbo It Also AIno jou you ou will Mill III put on the South side HIde of ot the thc Monument this thin Inscription James Son Sou of ot James and Hazel linn pal Also AhlO n marker nl nt the thc fiend oC or m my m- sons Non grave rne e with Ith Son wrote on It now nosy If It you rou think flint m mv my nun sons on name nume would t sound Mound better hetter this Tn way anIt on ou onIt It you Ton cnn can do lt It James Jr Son SOil of ot In Jas and hazel 1 and nOli so o on Ill Now Son lie be II a m runt mi and nud do tIo tits thin rl right ht away and do It right hOe have the markers marker the same anie nn as the other on one and aud I will III not lIot bother you jou OU nil any Iii more ore My IT son On on v will willbe be burled between my 01 wife nile and I. I Good h by 15 and Good luck SIGNED Jn Jas J. J nynn Calvary Cemetery Do not Put any thing thine on the thc East Ent side Bide of ot that Monument Give the receipt to the Judy that lint calls for tor It I Suit Lake City Utah ODonnell O'Donnell tt A t Co HeRr Dear You Yon You will see nee that my mT child and myself Ret get et n a decent burial with HI Father OBrien O'Brien officiating I was vrn Tn flown n and picked out m my coffin tho one behind th tb the door I r also ulo to be he burled buried luthe lu In luthe th the clothes clothe I 1 have hn secured for lor you Myself and child childs clothes clothe nrc are In the suit nil It vase nile Nt V 4 hoe or no suspenders on un the pouts pant I 1 my child childs tie tI tied d fore In the thc sane Name an n. mine mille The lie ue- ue tic la Is the child childs I IT watt T him hurled between my wife and nod I. I I also nl o wont front no one else elne hurled burled on that lot I J the deed and nil all that IM Is In that Dill hook book burled buried H with Midi h lust e It Hili coat pocket t when It me mC e my nay you jou ou Ko go through Myself M elf and childs child's funeral must be he private UN u. to the cemetery together Inthe inthis In lit the this Name hearse The Tho only people you Oil nrc me to allow at lit III my funeral are arc Ml Mliss II Lillian mid her mother 1 Mr Mrs r Amy Mrs Vernier Batley Mr 11 and Mr Mrs Italic nube Smith nUll nail nn any guests these people pr-olle wish Also INO AI o Mr Mrs flutist Hutler of or You will have hn to let Geo Geu Dickson secretary of or the brotherhood of nf locomotive e firemen n and noll en engineers engineer So Xo lew v my hod body before It In is burled My child fI says MJ I could not leave hint him alone nIno in thin Ibis world forM 11 lie says n nj Take Inke me to my uty manta mama no so 0 I bad to do It H. If jou OU tense hn not Rot got ot our bod bodies Ie by It- the yn Ou Ret get this thin letter the they are lu In room 10 Cullen hotel I 1 lin have e only one ont time to die dle It IH is I. I n a promise I hn e kept to my lilY wife See Ste that everything c en In is curried carried out nut nm as 1 I It ill My Iy child between tn my nICe and amid I I. I and nobody el else e to he lie buried In the name lot Also see nee that lint my wife or r child In is ne never ncr cr moved mo from that lot Fraternally yours your Jn In J. J SnIt Salt Lake Ink City Utah Mr Geo Glo nIxon 1211 II Medford to E C. C G. G ODonnell O'Donnell nail and Com Company linn n a sum mum of ur not to exceed on one thousand dollars for the burial of Jon J J. J ran It-ran aid ton son |