Show A L PUTNEY SUICIDES The Act Was Dono by Shooting and It Was Deliberate TRIBUNE BUREAU j U L T Building > Ogden Dec 11 J Yesterday morning bout 10 oclock a pistol shot In one of the upper rooms at the Sebrlng rooming hOuse on Lincoln avenue startled lie people of the IIOUFO ajid an Investigation revealed a sulcldo LocatIng the shot In n room occupied by A L Putney entrance was secured through tin outside window and there on the door lay the dead body of Putney his head toward and close to the window By his aide lay a SScilIbrc pistol and In the ccnlor of his forehead was found a Jagged wound from which the blood and brains were oozIng The oulcidc had evldcntlv lain on the floor lo commit the deed as the low portions of the lace curtains were spattered with blood and a great pool of blood had uoakcd the I carpet That the shooting was premeditated and with suicidal Intent war evidenced by two letters on to his brother David Putney of Wiser Ida and the other directed to tho I Masonic fraternity of Ogden Tho lat lor wna written In a legible hand but wan ramblinp and Incoherent showing un doubtedly that I lie man was not In his right mind when he wrote the letter The oommunlcatlon showed that some not of his had prayed on his mind for years and It also Indicator that ho belonged to some association finlngonlstlc to the Govern mont The letter raid that Orson Griffin Grif-fin owed him St for plastering wojk and atnled that ho had IiT In his pockets io rcothpr with a certificate of donoslt In vestigation showed that he had 2710 In his pockets and also had a qortltlcnte of deposit of 51f < on the Commercial National Nation-al bank which was Inclosed In lie letter to his brother Putney had been In Ogden for several month nnd had roomed at the Sebrlng house since spring Mo was known as a quiet Industrious man and the police had 10 acquaintance with him except that onco he wan arrested an a vagrant but was dlschargod on nhowlng that he was n working man The deceased was horn In 1Sil I and was evidently of good family At first It was thought to hold an In riupKi but later It was decided that It watr unnecessary and consequently the body vas removed to Larklna undertak lull parlora The brother has been notf fled and the disposition of the body will await instructions from him Tho deceased de-ceased wan a Swede and In his rambling letters opoko often of the Swedes as loyal and lawabldlnjr people A Noteworthy Wedding Last night at the homo of the brides parcnui Mr and Mr Angus T Wright on Twentyfourth strcot Miss Emm Wright WIIH united In marriage to Mr Joshua Grant Jr In the presence of Ji largo number of relatives and friends both from Ogden and Salt Lake Cltv The young couple are well known and highly respected In this community where they have hosts of friends who wIsh them a long and happy life The bride is the accomplished and beautiful daughter of Mr and Mrs Angus T Wright while the groom Is o prominent young business man of this city In Criminal Circles In the Municipal court yesterday Potor JlacKonzlc was sentenced to sixty days in the county Jail on tho charpotrff potlt larceny In sUailng 100 sacks from the Southern Pacific company at the cutoff Frank Miles the youth who wan with the older man was allowed lo go on sucpond ed sentence A man named Mfiyfleld was fined SW for lining abusive language to < a boy at this Corey livery barn the day before A couple at plain drunks were assessed light damages Brevities W C Shoemaker wan up from Salt Lake City yesterday Mrs J 1 H Ncvln Ih back from a visit with friends In Nevada Moclali Evans of Lshl and Hear River valley was In OsdtMi yesterday The tax sales of delinquent laxon begin next Monday noon at tho county court house I Flu Indies of tho Ephicopa church arc making great preparations for their ba raar Ttfuraday and Friday Mr and Mr J F Grant of Salt Lake City were in Ogden last evening attending this GrnntWrlghl woddlng I Dr W A Taylor until recently located In Corlnnr will leave In a day or two for Santa JJarbara whore he will make lug future home Judge llolapp has made an order that tho term of District court In Weber county will be from the rth to tho 23th oC each month Lime evfnlnb the Bohomlnn club gave its second apnombly of the Wftoon at ConloyH hull Then wis it larpo arid select attendance Word has been received by his rein tlvpn innounolng the death of John Fife of thin county at Birmingham Ala where he was laboring In a minion A marriage llccnso was yooterday Isnucri lo NKsruin J Romrell of Ofldop and Miss Rupy J Tnylor of llarrlnvfHo to Johinr F Gram Jr and Mlsu Martha Emma Wright of Ogden and lo Jesse Edgar and Zclla Shaw of Liberty Mr and Mrs Philip Tlplctt of Wells Ncv who were married recently were In Ogden yesterday on their return home from their wadding tour Mrs Tlplett lowell lo-well known In Ogden as Miss Frank Moor having lived hero for name years A basketball game was played yesterday yester-day afternoon at 4 I oclock at Lester park pavilion between the Weber Stake academy und a loam of the American School of AthletIcs The game was strenuously stren-uously contested but the Athletics were no match for theIr opponents and tho Weber Stakes won by a score of 16 to 0 A return garde will boployed at an early date |