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Show Suicide. Early ypsterday morning, at South Cottonwood, the body of a young man was discovered banging to a tree. Hia name is Richard Liston, and he was but 27 years of age. When found the body was yet warm. He bore the reputation of being an exemplary young man, and, it is believed, com mitted the act while laboring under temporary insanity superinduced by a long illoea. A coroner's jury rendered rend-ered the following verdict: An inqukition hiden at the hou-e f Francis Litson, in South Cottonwood Cotton-wood nreciuct, Salt Lake county, cn the2S'ihday of August, 1S7S, belcra Silas Richards, justice of the peace of Uuion precinct in said county, upou the body of Richard LiteOD, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed, the said jurors on their oaths do say, that the deceased came to hia death by commiliing suicide, by hanging hi nine ni-ne II to a tree with a rope, while laboring under a fit of insanity. W. G. Yolko. Thomas A. Whxelke, Joseph Thompson. Silas S. Richards. Justice of the Peace. |