Show TIED OF LVIN G 1I 1 I Ben W Jcnnens Tries to Take His Own Lie JOS ZAKZOTTA HANGS HIMSELF The Horrible Suicide of a City Prisoner Found hanging by 3 Strap in His Cell Benjamin W Jennens an old resident of this city made an unsuccessful attempt to take his own life on Sunday morning It seems that for some weeks past Mr Jen nens who is sixtythree years of age has been suffering from melancholia brought on by domestic troubles He was drinking heavily on Saturday night and early on Sunday morning while in an irresponsible condition ho took a razor and made a deep cut on tho inside of each leg just above the ankle The blood fairly poured from these wounds and in a short time the carpet in his lodging at IS North First West street was saturated After some time he left his room by a rear stairway and wandered off towards the Union Pacific depot He finally brought up at tho Deseret hospital and his wounds were dressed by Dr Wil cox Mr Jennens is quite weak from the ioss of blood but he was resting easily last night and will doubtless recover THIS ONE SUCCEEDS Joseph Zanzotta the Italian who got into trouble a few weeks ago through his brutal assault on Amelia Hornyak is no more Zanzotta was arrested a few days ago for drunkenness and was sent up for u short term On Friday night Butler and Murray two crooks who were confined in the city jail attempted to escape and fearing fear-ing that Zanzotta would betray them they locked him up in a cell The Italian gave the alarm however and the crooks made a desperate effort to wreak their revenge on him They failed in this but succeeded i in giving the Italian a terrible right It is supposed that this experience together with his dissipated way of living liv-ing unsettled his mind and on Sunday night he became very violent towards his fellow prisoners He became so boisterous that he was finally locked up in a cell and no furtner attention was paid to him Later in the night one of the prisoners heard strange sounds in Zanzot tas cell and on going to the door he beheld the body of Zanzotta hanging by a leather strap which was tied to an iron rod in the cell The prisoner at once set up a terrific howling and soon brought the jailer to the scene The body was promptly cut down and restoratives were applied but it was too late and in a few minutes tho Italian breathed his last I was found that Zan zotta had taken a leather strap which he wore in place of suspenders and deliberately deliber-ately hanged himself Coroner Harris was notified and an inquest was hold at 2 pm yesterday and a verdict was rendered in accordance with the facts stated |