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Show FOUND DEAD IN BED. ndden Kilt ef the uriTlnr Prlaelpal la m fark City Tragedy. William J. Moss of Tark City, was found deait in his bed at the Cullen hotel ho-tel late yesterday afternoon, and the remain now lie at Skewes' undertaking undertak-ing establishment, -whore an inquest is being hMld upon theui. Whether death was voluntary or accidental, ac-cidental, it will strike the reading public pub-lic as a itrange secmel to a tragedy at Park City, in which Alexander Lang-tou Lang-tou was slain by the man who now lie in the cold embrace of death. He was tried for his life but was acquitted, and at once returned to his home in the hiila, where he secured employment at the Alliance tunnel. He came to thin city a few days ago and took up bis lodgings at the Cullen, while he lought the restaurants for board. Thursday night he retired at 10 o'clock, and had not appeared late in the afternoon, when the clerk entered the room under a pass key ami found Most lying In bed dead. The morphine bottle cleared up the mystery and betrayed the cause of death. The friends of Moss nay that since the tragedy he has been the victim of dreaded insomnia and resorted to morphine mor-phine that he might overcome it. Id this ay be been me a slave to it and always al-ways carried the powders in his pocket. The desolating effect of the drug aoon began to assert themselves. His conduct con-duct was alarming. He seemed to fancy himself haunted by more desper-aU desper-aU avengers than thoso he hd eluded in the court chamber and when a few mornings ago one of the witnesses for tbe prosecution spoke to him be stepped step-ped back and threw his hands to his gun. His reason was fast crumbling beneath tbe gnawing of insomnia ami morphine. His friends are scarcely prepared to render a verdict of suicide Imt are 01 tne opinion mas utna was tbe result of an overdose. Moss was a man who had passed through all the vicissitudes of the frontier fron-tier and for several years until the slaving of Langtors was employed as engineer on the Ontario mine at Tark city. He was of an excitable tempera-dent tempera-dent and it was in the beat of terrible rage thatbe dropped bis man. He has relatives living in the northwest and these will bo communicated with before a definite time is set lor the funeral. |