Show Oakes Suicides Some time last September John Oakes shot and killed a man by the name of David Richards at Tintic He was tried at Provo recently I convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life and since then had been kept in the jail at Provo About 7 oclock on Monday morning Sheriff John W Turner went to the county jail to get Oakes in readiness to bring him to this city and then to take him to the Penitentiary > When Mr Turner entered the cell he found Oakes in a deep sleep and senseless caused according to Dr Pike by taking morphine Every effort possible was resorted tore store tile man to consciousness but without effect and he lingered on until about 10 oclock on Monday night and then breathed his last There is no question but he took the morphine himself as he was alone in the jail all night Oakes had frequently told Sheriff Turner that he would never go to the Peniten tiary but that gentleman had no idea he contemplated suicide It is yet a mystery where > or how he obtained the drug |