| Show OUND DEAD ON FLOOR Thomas K Gibson Expires in His Room I FROM HEMORRHAGE OF LUNGS Thursday Evening While Trying to Light a Lnmp Mr Gibson Was Attacked At-tacked and Fell to the Floor Not Found Until a Friend Called at His Room Yesterday and Discovered Him Lying in a Pool of Blood At First Glance it Looked Like a Case of Foul Play Thomas Kell Gibson an old man of 70 years was found dead In his room on Second and N streets yesterday forenoon fore-noon lie ius lying in a pool of blood and his face and hands were besmeared be-smeared with gore ivheu the body was discovered At first it vas thought that a deed of blood had boon committed but when Dr Anderson arrived and made an exum I nation ho found that death had been caused by l hemorrhage of the lungs The body was discovered by Daniel Kennedy a Iricnd of the ueaa man who was parsing Mr Gibsons house when ho deckled to call on Gibson Gib-son Jpon pushing open the door ho saw Gibson lying near the door profusely pro-fusely besmeared with blood The po I lieu were notified und Ofllcer Sperry went to tho plaeo to Investigate lie found no evidences of foul play or Injury In-jury beyond a alight cut on the face which hail evidently been caused through striking against a large oilcan oil-can which lay upturned near the dead mans head It I was apparent Unit lisi had been vomiting blood Into the can and when he had dropped to the lloor he had struck against Iho receptacle overturning it The ghastly contents had then gathered about hlrf body forming the pool of blood In which ho layOn On the tnblo stood a lamp from which tho globe had been removed and a half burned match lay on time floor From this it Is inferred that the aged man was In the act of lighting the lamp when he dropped dead or fell in a dying dy-ing state Dr Anderson thought that Gibson had been dead a number of hours probably since Into the previous evening i Mrs Johnson who occupies the remainder re-mainder of the house suspected noth j lug wrong1 until the body was found I by Mr Kennedy It was decided by i Justice Kroeger that nn inquest was necessary and a jury consisting of John T Lynch A C JBrlxen and 1C A King1 was Impaneled i After listening to thy testimony of Dr I I Anderson and that of a number of i witnesses whu tostlflid that time de j ceased had of late been complaining of pains In bin heart the Jury retired In I a few moments it returned with a vci I i diet that time deceased had came to 1 death through natural causes The dead man was an old resident oft the of-t city and for thirty I years he HUM I employed on the construction of the Temple jIe has a son James Gibson who Is a clerk at the Z < MJ I drugstore drug-store and doorkeeper at the Salt Lake Theater Tho funeral will bo held from Joseph K Taylors undertaking parlors at 1 p 3 in today |
