Show CHOOSES DEATH TO LOSS OF SIGHT Alma C CRiser Riser Fires Fatal Shot While Despondent Over III Health NEWS PROSTRATES WIFE CITY DOG TAX COLLECTOR COM COMMUS COMMITS COMMITS MITS MUS SUICIDE IN OFFICE Falling health through which he had hod gone blind bUnd caused Alma C CRiser Riser firer city dog dop tax collector call octal to com corn commit commit mit suicide In an anteroom of or the theome ome of or the city treasurer at yesterday afternoon Ho He left ten lefta tena a lent last J t message for tor his wife wire In which he said Mid that he would rather die with hie hi 0 than blind Upon entering the office of ot the tho city treasurer yesterday morning Mr Ri Riser ser Hr not only lamented his hili own condi condl condition condition tion but that of or his family Mrs Riser Ricer only recently recovered from tram a lingering illness and anti the children had been HI Ill Us lIe had struggled to keep up the expenses incurred by the series of or his misfortunes until he ho found himself hl upon the verge of or becoming incapacitated Then Thou discouraged RIer Riller lay down on a leather couch of or an anteroom looking from the city and county building and placed the muzzle of at n 1 revolver in his mouth H Hd discharged d arged It and died while the police poll r e patrol WM wan wa attempting to bring him surgical aid ald Dr W A Wade urn sum summoned by b tho city treasurer arrived just ju t as Riser was breathing brO his hi last It Shows Signs of or Illness Inness In his attempt at suicide Riser Bloer so se selected tooted looted the surest road to Instant and certain death de th The revolver was wan core care carefully fully tully leveled Into the back of or the roof root of or tho the mouth Tho The bullet penetrated the brain and according to the attending physician he knew little after arter the re rt revolver volver had been discharged Re Rebounding Rebounding Rebounding bounding the weapon settled under his hM left Jelt arm ann and when discovered he ho helay holay lay Iq in a peaceful pe cerul position as 88 though he had gone Into a sound sleep deep and with oyos downcast Riser entered the office of or orthe the city treasurer shortly after arter 2 Z yesterday afternoon He de do deposited d doted posited ted his collections and then anun sauntered un into an anteroom The expression pret Ion don on his hie face tace attracted the attention of or City Treasurer Gideon B Snyder one ORe of or his closest clo friends He followed the downcast man and tried to cheer him Finally Riser agreed with him hint that sunshine was bound to follow rain and the tk treasurer returned to his lila desk in the main mIn office i I Finds Riser on Couch Half Halt an hour later a shot rang out from the anteroom Tho e employed In ia the office of ot the city treasurer at first thought that possibly a drawer or oran orAll oran an All inkwell had been dropped to the Ue floor Treasurer snyder had felt tell uneasy un over Risers R condition walked Into the anteroom to make an investigation On the couch he found the body bod of the dog tax collector There Ther nac oo slight Might respiration re and a weak puke p lM and Mr Snyder summoned Dr Wade Wado Tho The pollee polito department de artmont was WM In Informed Informed I formed of or the tho suicide at 4 44 Ii Ris lUHr r left leet a sealed Haled noto for his tile wife This Th was wa taken to his home South Twelfth Bast EMt street After she sho had hac read the last Jut message Mrs Riser Ricer be became become come came prostrate and had to be attend attended ed eel by physicians The noto note was wu brief brier In it RIer Riser said cold fd that his eye eyes which had troubled him him for tor years were I gradually falling him and nd that he had been Informed that he was wac on the verge erge of or This The Th was wan given glyen explicitly as u the rea rca reason son on for tor the suicide Bookie his wilt wife if tee he is III survived hy by throe children Leah LMh aged K years rs Ward aged 4 years ye rs and Dorothy Doroth aged CI It 11 1 months HI His brother George C Riser ZU 24 North orth Fifth Firth West is J foreman of or the Z C M X L LWell I 1 Well oU Known nom In Mining Riser w was e born in Salt Lake forty years arg ago an exceptional education which partially trained him In mining Riser became interested in inore Inor Inore ore or production He Ho was wan 88 regarded as asan a aan an expert inhUman For a long period he was wu foreman of ot a mill at the Annia Laurie Lands mIne mino at Kimberley and when his hili health he lUt began to nail fail him he ac accepted the e petition of manager of or the th K It S Trading company at l ley by y Pluto Flute county Ha ne was warn also man manager manger manager ager ger of or a mill at White Pine Pin Nov Nev When Mr Mt Snyder was made city efty treasurer Riser wa was selected collector of oC dog tax The body was warn taken to the mortuary mortuary ary of or the ODonnell Undertaking Und company where it will bo be prepared pr for tor burial Arrangements nt for tor the funeral have not as yet et been b en com coin completed d I I l tt t f l ui e f 4 1 L 1 44 I k r rj rI rI rI rA P Ml MlA j I j I I A 0 O RISER Dog Tax Collector Who Killed Himself Before Losing His Sight |