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Show HANGED 1NJIS CELL Joseph Zanaotta Finally Outwiti the War Tcrnkey sad Oommitts Suicide. FAMILY JABS THE CAUSE. Temporarily Divoroed He Makes the Decree De-cree Permanent Before the Court of Death. Joseph Zanzotta, an Inmate of the city jail, committed suicide last night by hanging. Unable to chisel an avenue large enough through which to drag nil body, he cut the fetters that held hi.s spirit and liberated that. There is something extremely ex-tremely touching in Zanzotta's tribulations tribula-tions that in the last hours seemed to heap themselves like tho snow drifts aoout the rugged mountain peak. A short time ago ho conseutod to a temporary tem-porary separation from his wife. This was occasioned by a family jar into which a brick had crept. The vows he had made at the altor of love were uow mere grinning illusions. He was launched in tho lap of the law, and to get out of it agreed to the propo sition to liveapart until such time as his asperities were softened. It was a temporary divorce di-vorce made permanent last night before the court of death. Homeless, Zan-eotla Zan-eotla began to wander aimlessly about tho streets after the separation and about ten ago was arrested for drunkenness. drunk-enness. In default of tho line he was sent to jail. Su Hen and despondent he settled back into his cell in tho dusky confines of which he brooded on his troubles. With the other inmates he refused to fraternize. They entered a conspiracy to break jail and he protested pro-tested it with em phatic emphasis. .They tried to smoke or cremate him to submission sub-mission and would have succeeded, but for the timely arrival of Marshal Young and Captain Parker who, upon . hearing the blood curdling yells decided that some wayfarer was getting tho knife and hurried to the scene. j'veryiniiig seemoa to ore atne trouDte for the prisouer and he haunted his cell after this tilt with the inmates more closely. Yesterday he mado himself him-self very disagreeable. He ranted and tore around to the discomfiture of everyone else until finally one of the jail birds determined to choke him off. Zanzotta resisted and seizing a chunk of coal hurled it at the head of his desperate assailant. The inmates descended upon him in a body and locked him in a cell, Zanzotta .- hissed some malediction in his native tongue and then subsided. In the calm of his cell Zanzotta was issuing his own death warrant. Quiet having descended, the others had gone or were going to bed. One of the prisoners, pris-oners, about to seek his bunk noticed what he conceived to be a red shirt hanging upon the door and advancing ad-vancing to it was confronted by the bleached, distorted face of Zanzotta, who was in the embrace of death. A chapter of cries brought the officers from headquarters and the cell was entered. en-tered. Zanzotta was found hanging to the strap with which he had supported his trousors. His tongue protruded from a face that was almost black with strangulation. The body was taken down and removed to the hallway. The pulse was beating almost imperceptibly. imper-ceptibly. At this time death had fixed its signature and with a gasp Zanzotta was dead. The remains were remanded to the morgue at the direction of the coroner, and word was dispatched to the diverced wife, who feels the situation situa-tion very keenly. It is a desperate ending to a checkered life, a life that was haunted by one bad habit excesses at the bar. He was a stone mason by trade, and at the expiration of his last job took a drink that finally dragged him to the grave. |