Show TOOK CARBOLIC ACID Edward Roberts Adopted That Horrible Means of Suicide THE LIFELESS BODY FOUND I THE BEAR OF BUDS SALOON NEAR THE U P DEPOT Bearing All the Evidences of a Fearful ful Death He Had Been Despondent Des-pondent and Drinking Heavily For Some Weeks Body Removed to the Undertakers Where the Inquest I quest Will Be Held Today I I Edward Roberts swallowed an ounce of carbolic acid about noon yesterday I and died alone in all the agonies that i are compounded in that chemical Possibly an hour after he had slunk i away into an unfrequented back room of Buds Villa a saloon in the vicinity vicin-ity of the Union Pacific depot a chance wanderer found the stiffened corpse lying beside a bench from which the I man had rolled amid the horrible contractions con-tractions of his burning vitals Not a second glance was required to satisfy Acting Coroner Sommer of the dead I mans purposes while blisters upon the gums and tongue betrayed the method by which death was won A pungent I odor of carbolic acid came from the I gasses that were expelled from the i stomach whenever the remains were moved Other conditions confirmed the I ready conclusion There were clenched I fists rolling upward of the pupils of the eyes bent knees and every other evidence of a most violent ending After surveying the scene Justice Som mer permitted the removal of the body to Evans undertaking establishment and called an inquest for this morning at 10 oclock ar the same place Roberts entered Buds Villa yesterday j yester-day morning just before 12 oclock I meeting the proprietor 11 Bud on 1 the threshold of the resort The greeting greet-ing which passed was an ordinary salutation I salu-tation a the men were old acquaintances acquain-tances Roberts had been on a spree J I for nearly a week and was very nervous ner-vous He asked Bud if he could get I a bracer and was told to go inside and call on the bartender His request was honored and after taking the drink he disappeared through a doorway 1 door-way affording an entrance < to the wine i and card rooms in the rear That was the last seen of Roberts in the quick AN EMPTY PHIAL After the discovery of the body about 1230 oclock a further search revealed an empty phial bearing a carbolic acid label This had been flung some dis tance from where Roberts was lying but the cork stopper had fallen near the head Roberts had evidently stretched out upon the bench pulled the stopper from its place with the left hand and then inverted the bottle The instantaneous effect of the acid caused him to hurl the bottle from him as he bounded from the bench to the 1 i floor I From what external facts there are I about the mans life as known by 11 I Bud it was gathered that he had been despondent over business reverses I I Not knowing the buoyant qualities of a more intellectual mind when perplexed j per-plexed by trouble he soughtthe cheap I oblivion of drink and found no solace i because of the brief respite that means j I i afforded He in the habit of was buying I I buy-ing carbolic acid for use upon the diseased dis-eased feet of horses for Roberts vocation vo-cation in the city was that o a teamster team-ster I has therefore been presumed that he purchased the acid because familiar fa-miliar with its deadly properties Buds saloon had been the haunt of the moods fellow for about a week past 1 during which time he had forsaken his employment of team work for a cer I tain coal yard of the city The frequenters i i fre-quenters of the place were used to his somber ways and gave them no j I I thought Having never intimated any I intention of ending his existence the discovery was a ghastly surprise to I them Roberts was 28 years of age unmar I I ried and lived at the corner of Fifth West and First South streets He I I owned a ranch on the Snake river near Idaho Falls but it appears to have I been encumbered an instance which j has prompted the belief that Roberts business affairs alone goaded him on to I the deed I |