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Show i- ' Daniel fibersole Takes.. Life to jj Escape Craving for Strong I l I WIFE RETURN'S HOME TO I DISCOV-BK DEAD B0J)lr Mf Rash Deed of Janitor While ( 1 1 Despondent Over hack of !j jf ' When Mrs. Fmma Ebcrsole. who con- I ducts a lodging house at. lfd West. Sec- j ond South street, arrived home about .'1 1 f'jf ' o'clock Fridny afternoon, after attend- ' jjl 1 ing the sickbed of her aged mother 'BriS nfProvo, she vhs greeted by the III o- d' loss bodv of her husband. Daniel C. SUjfl i Hhorsnlcl lving face downward on the Kfjtit t ' sofa in the sitting room, with a sell-,i sell-,i ' -inflicted bullet wound through his head. rtnJS i(' , from which tho warm lifcblood still $ f ', wns flowing, fjfltj r fn Khersole's right hand was clasped VUti I ll10 revolver with which he had killed WrR .' himself. One chamber of tho five was jjn j empty' .Did smoke-stained. The bullc; Ifcliti ' '' entered iust nimvo the right car and j F,T; came our, back of the left. Tho wqnjion lift' tj with which Kbcrsole ended his life is a W . X Smith and Wesson, IiS caliber,, which I- tI n; bought several months ago. I id W, The i.J,,v motive that could be as- li 1 jfJj Mgned for' the suicide was despondency , I If' r4 produced by ftbersolc'a inability toob- I J igl' tain employment and quit drinking. I ' 'in "Until a J"cw weeks ago he was employed 1 fj , ; '). as janitor bv the Western lileclrie com- I R 1 ! nanv, 155 "Fouth Third West street. I rj -! : i "When flic financial stringency came he I'M ': (, -was discharged, and subsequently was 1 J 'I unable to get. work. This depressed I V; ft him until at times he took lo drinking I t .pft heavily, it is told. Mrs. Ebcrsolo ro- I p My monst fated with hint and he assured her I that he would quit. He declared tho I S K'l ' ast' 'nu' M0 w,,s drunk that if he com- I r fl?1 milted the offense again lie wouid do I fl, j away with himself, but Mrs. Ivbersole I $ 't-V did not consider his threat seriously. Ir 'ffc-J Feared Crazo for Drink. ' jf jfr A search of the death room brought 1 :M. forth, a beer bottle, and it is believed 5 j' . thai FdJcrsoIe, rather than face the 1' problpni of life, beset, by an apparently fi .ft,1, ' jrrortist.iblo craving for strong drink. X 1 J- destroyed himself. Mrs. Ebersolo says T1 l she. had not informed him that she was J; coming liome Friday afternoon, making Y V '. a hurried trip to Salt. Lake City bn- j A , tween two crises in her mother's illucfcs. f i.i. . Tt is thought that F.borsole ? weakness 1' r for liquor overcame him and, failing to I 1 find strength in himself to resist the ' f I -, Miicido impulse in his wife's absence, ' i ' he destroyed himself. I ' . Kbcrnole loft no farewell nole behind ! ' him so far as could ,bo loarned, and j i!; ! .t there ir. considerable mystery surround- lj I tl . iag tho shooting. There are several l'; . lodgers in (he Rbersolo house, but no j 1 ? one but a Greek. Peter Kales, who oc- ' : - cu pics a room in the rear, heard the i fatal shot. He speaks imperfect Eng lish, but made it understood that, ho ;. 1 heard a report sounding like a pi 6 tl r i . , phot about I o'clock I'rirhiy after- 1 noon. ' The report was muff led. he says. , L' as if it resulted from (he bursting "of H J r a. paper sacl filled with air, and ho , ', 4? . made nr invest ig;it ion. The sound came ,r from the rnoin iji which Ebersole's body 1 If afterwards was found, he said. ', '.. Mrs. Eborsolc Prostrated. : jj r. and Mrs. Kbersole were inarn'ed j. ,( ' twelve years ago. There are no chil- v' die.n. l-jberaole was about !S years old. . .Lnf-t winter Mrs. Kbersolo kept lodgers I in tho Whitmori' terrace at Kirsl South ,-. ' W', ;in,l r,,'i'-ul West streets. Two weeks ago jjj lr she iuovel to loll West Second South A j fl : street. Her husband, she says, had II : .money in bank and his suicidV could i Ilv Ji'ardly be attributed to despondency Jjl-j ." over money mat to-!. f "A3 1 Kbersolp" came from a prominent ;ind ' :Wf -Well-to-do family of Dallas Mentor, fa. .His falher, Abe' Ebersole, is a wealthy ! ; , farmer there. lie also leaves a mother. j jJ Tho double affliction of her hus- . i-t band's suicirlo and her mother's fatal l.i uf. illness has almost prostrated Mrs. Eber- ' I " j sole. U-r mother. 72 years old, is.suf- JS ; rff fering from dropsy, and her death is 1 momentarily expected. IJ: jjlS Ebersole 's body was tnken to O'Oou- j -' ijl noH's underlaking jmrlors. His parents , 1 ' ' wcro notified of his death, but burial hi ' ' ff ' probably will be made here. Acting jjj'; Jj , Coroper Dana T. Smith, who viewed ' j J. jjlj r. tho body, will not hold an inquest. |