Show PETER GIllESPIE SWALLOWS ACm Despondency Due to III Health Causes Suicide of f Well known Character In a fit of despondency due to Ill III health Peter K Ii Gillespie of East Sixth South street killed himself about S 9 I yesterday morning by drinking carbolic acid His wife and two daugh daughters daughters found him writhing In pain paip pal in the th thard yard ard and summoned Dr J S Sharp but before the physician reached the house Gillespie was beyond aid Gillespie was formerly proprietor of ot a gambling house in Salt Lake He had hada a reputation for tor square dealing and was as popular among the frequenters of his pla place e because of oC his genial manners When gambling was closed in Salt Lake he be went to Montana Failing Falling health caused him to return to Salt Lake about abo t three months ago He lie was ivas suffering from heart trouble and his condition caused frequent attacks of melancholia Yesterday morning he lie went into the pantry adjoining the kitchen and took a bottle of oC carbolic acid from a shelf Mrs Irs Gillespie saw him enter the pantry but thought nothing of the matter A few minutes later Miss Florence Gillespie found her ber father lying upon the ground in the yard jard ard groaning with pain She ran to his side He was as suffering intense pain At his side was a bottle which she recognized as ns one which had been kept on the pantry shelf and had contained carbolic acid It was almost empty In his grim de determination determination termination to end his life lite Gillespie had swallowed a large quantity of the burning liquid and had apparently not taken the bottle of oC poison from his lips until he lie fell writhing upon the floor Everything En possible was done to save sae his life but he expired soon after Dr Sharp reached his side Gillespie was 46 years eals old He leaves a widow and two taro daughters I Flor Florence Florence Florence ence Gillespie 16 years ears old and Doro Dorothy thy 9 years ears old His brother James K Gillespie is a member of oC thereal estate firm of Kelsey Ielse R Gillespie The body was taken to Evans Eans under undertaking undertaking taking establishment I |