Show RAY r RAYMOND BAYMOND IS KILLED D SALT SAT TRAGIC DEATE DETH IN I ILLINOIS FeI Poll From Prom Hotel Betel Hotl Window Widow and ad Never Regained Consciousness uness leaves Wife and ad Son SonI In Mou Ills Is Journal of or Oct 22 Z Joseph Josph E TallIs better known in inthis inthIs InthIs this city cl probably as a Ray URay Rond Raymond was found dead In the alley aley Just back backof backof backof of the Occidental hotel about 6 yesterday yester ay morning with wih his skull crushed He was clad cad In his night nightclothes nightclothes nIghtclothes clothes and had been dead several hours when found Talus TaU Is for the past year ear or more made this city his headquarters He was raised In the vicinity of Tennessee Tennesee this county count and all an his life his ambi ambition tion ton was to be in the newspaper n busl busi business ness He corresponded for fo the Macomb Eagle years yearn y ar ago under the nom de deplume deplume deplume plume of Racy He vent ent west some something something something thing like fifteen ff en years 81 ago and was employed on some of the th leading ne news newspapers ws papers of the west as a traveling cor correspondent 01 i respondent and also alfo held u a local position I tion ton on several of the papers He returned to this state about two years ears ago aso and has since made this city his home the tho greater part of the time He came caine back to start a law suit with his sister in regard to the division of or orthe the land left lef by his father and has been here since awaiting the settlement of the suit It I has been en before the I court for several terms but hut just what stage of settlement it I had arrived at Is I Inot I I Inot not known While here he has been acting as cor correspondent correspondent respondent for the QuIny QuIne Journal from this and surrounding points He has traveled extensively over this part of the country countr acting in his capacity of correspondent t especially lly since the campaign began He left leU Friday afternoon with wih Henry Henr McMillan ic Unan of near Tennessee leaving in ina Ina ina I a buggy bugg They drove droe to Tennessee and from there Tallia Talis went some place down the road He returned on the up train Saturday evening as far as Colchester I and then boarded a southbound train which arrives at Colchester about and nd went to Quincy Quiney According to re reports reports reports ports he bad ad been drinking some when i he boarded the train that evening He II went to Quincy Quiney and went to the tho hotel spoken of above where he procured a room and retired That was the last seen or heard of him until his remains were tere found the n next morning Whether his death dl ath was an un accident or premeditated will wll probably never be known While he had been In hard hardluck hardluck hardluck luck of or late he wa was never neer despondent as far far as could be noticed He drank some but never to the extent of becom becoming becoming becomIng ing intoxicated There are two theories which are arc about evenly supported among his friends One Is that he un undressed undressed undressed dressed and sat st in the window of his room fell fen asleep and tumbled to the ground The Tha other is that he became despondent and while somewhat under the influence of liquor deliberately raised the window and threw himself to the ground Goun below One thing tiling that op opposes opposes opposes poses this latter later theory teory Is the fact that he lie was clad only in his underclothes when found Deceased has a sister living at Foun Fountain Fountin fain tain tin Green and a a niece at Tennessee They were at once informed of his death and and asked as a to the disposal of the remains What answer was re received received was not learned as the tele telephone telephone phone wires have been down since yes yesterday yesterday morning Joe oe Talus Tallis or uRa Ray Raymond the name he wa was most known by b in Utah and Idaho was a familiar figure around newspaper offices in this city ct from four I to six years He ear ago alo was employed on both The Herald Hemd and the Tribune most I of the time wIh with ith this paper as railroad reporter and traveling correspondent He had a large acquaintance among railroad men he having been employed ed years ago in the operating department of railroads do down n east easL Before leaving Salt SnIt Lake Lae Raymond took to excessive he Missouri drinking He leaves a a wife wiCe and son In I |