Show BY EITHER ROUTE A Sunday Morning Suicide at the Windsor Hotel PREPARED TO GO EITHER WAY Life Vas a Burden and a drag and He Con eluded to End It The Evidence at the Inquest Life is a burden and a drag to me and I am going to end it This is the statement mado on Friday last by John Philpott who has been boarding board-ing at tho Windsor hotel for some few weeks past He fulfilled his threat and used morphine mor-phine to accomplish it An inquest was held by Coroner Taylor yesterday at tho undertaking rooms of Joseph Wm Taylor on West Temple street when the following testimony was adduced ad-duced Alonzo Lemraon Am porter at the Windsor hotel on First rfouth street John Philpot was the name of the deceased He first came to the house on the lOch of October and paid a weeks board in advance He paid prom ply until about a week ago and then asked that we give him credit for a weektill Saturday night When thai time came he claimed that the foreman hadnt paid him but said he would give us all the money he had 14 He appeared to be all r1ht then He was a carpenter by trade and about l years of age light complexion with a blonde mouitahe I do not know where he came from originally HE CAME FKOM OGDEN LATELY where he had once attempted suicide so lie told inc Ho said that he had purchased morphine mor-phine in Ogden and the druggist had told him how much to take He took lime times as much anti then woke up the next morning as bright I as a dollar I Jlrstheardof the fact that he had taken poison hero at about 1 oclock Sunday morning when a man came along and said the deeased was choking death He was breathIng breath-Ing very hard at that time and his eyes were set I was sure it was a case of morphine because be-cause I had seen similar cases He had no baggage and no clothes save what he had on I went after a doctor but did not get one for about an hour and a quarter When the doctor arrived he gave deceased a hypodermic injection in the breast and also a tablespoonful of brandy which re ved him oDlewhat and kept hIm alive until 9 oclock when he died I think everytlilztg WIS done for him that eouid be done under the elr eamstances The conlyr however had nn hope of saving his life because when ho arrived the poison had gotten too strong a bold upon his system There wal a white powller found on him but I do not believe it was morphine There was a morphine label in his pocket bear lag the name of A C Smith Co HIS ROOM MATES WERE TRANSIENTS and are now out of the city When he came In I told him there was a man in his room and he told me it was all right that it was he I saw there and that he had followed me down stairs I noticed no peculiarity about its actions on the evening previous to his demise de-mise or at any other time He retired at about ntu 1 have no idea when he took the poison When the uudortaker and myself wet to remove re-move the body from the red we found a 3j caUjreflvenhojtar laying under his hip Taa chambers were all full The weapon was hero shown to the jury I was a cheap rimtire singleaction weapon Two of the cartiid es hal been struck by the hammer ham-mer but for some reasun they had failed to explode ex-plode Tije Coroner Sheriff Hurt do you think it possible for the hammer to have struck these cartridges wit hoot producing an explosion tas boriS snhlihigilt would be a wonder if they exploded judging from the make of the gun gunDr Charles Mantor attended the deceased lurng his last iliac From the condition I found him in I should say ho had taken AN OVKUDOSE Or MOItPJHNE I cannot say whether the white powder found upon upon Mm morphine or not I gave him au hypodermic injection of sulphate of utrnpla and abaut a teaspoonfull of brandy He wa entirely unconscious rhcnl got to the hotel and I considered that all the poison he had taken had been absorbed by his system The atropia was given with a view of counteracting the ef Cents of the morphine He was in such a condi ton that we could not keep him in motion or use any local remedies Ha I been called earlier I might possibly have been able to save him but it was impossible to tell how much poison he had taken The pitpls of his eyes were very much contracted and lie was breath iriS heavily It is my opinion that he died from morphiue poisoning I was called between 4 and 5 on Sunday morning I should say ho was between D und 40 I years of age A M Ferguson heard the deceased make threats that he would destroy himself that ho lad tried it once in Ogden and had failed bat ould get there the next time that LIFE WAS A BUHDEN AND A DRAG to him He gave no details as 10 why it should be Ho was a great novel reader and inclined to be reticent I think the fellow was either insane in-sane or was tending that way I base my bellel upon what he told me concerning his habits and acts He was a single man and according to his statement K years of age He was born In Con iicticut 1 think and has spent several years In Old Mexico where he herded sheep for a time in the interior He had do money or other valuables hat would induce anyone to murder him The last conversation I hUt with him was on Friday Ho wanted to join the carpenters union here but could get no one to vouch for him Ho claimed to be a carpenter but I failed to remember remem-ber who he said he was working for He had no tools at least none at the house He was broke when ho came here He claimed to have no family his answer to me was that ho was alone In the world The jury rendered a verdict of death bins bi-ns own hand liE WAS PREPARED TOGO That ho had made up his mind there should be no failure this time is evidenced by the fact of tho indented cartriJges bens be-ns found in the pistol Ho had evidently napped the gun twice at himself and then gave it up and swallowed tho morphine that ended his life |