Show A SUICIDE an affair that Is clouded in mystery A YOUNG MAN NAMED BLOOD SHOOTS HIMSELF jealous considered to be tle of his rash act on friday night a little before 11 a terrible tragedy wag enacted in american fork that set the people there all aglow with excitement A young man named john W blood ho had been keeping company with a woman named eva adams who tad recently been divorced from her husband after walking out with her and his aister went home and went to bed shortly after he got up and bid his father and mother goodbye good bye thinking he was perhaps sins away to bingham where he bad been in the habit of going but little attention was paid to what he said he straightway went to his sisters where the woman was sleeping and aroused them from bed telling them also that he had come to bid them goodbye good bye he was asked where ho was going his answer was to die right here and drawing a pistol in each hand showed that he fully intended doing as he said the woman caught hold of one of the pistols when he raised the other to his head and fired sending a ball clear through it he dropped and never breathed after the justice of the peace john me neil soon had a jury who returned the following verdict OF UTAH UTAH COUNTY AMERICAN PRECINCT an inquisition holden at the residence of george western in american fork city county and territory aforesaid on the day of march A D 1888 before john mcneil justice of the peace upon the body of bolm W blood there lying dead by the jurors whose names are cereto nereto subscribed the said jurors upon there oaths do say that the deceased came to his death on the day of march A D by a shot fired from hiis own hand through the head with suicidal extent from a colts pistol 41 calibre under a temporary state of despondency in testimony whereof the said jurors have set our hands the day and year aforesaid 1 JAMES JR jurors JAMES H PULLEY attest my hand this day of march A D 1888 JOHN mcneil justice of the peace since the above was written our american fork correspondent primer sends the following detailed account just before midnight last friday night the few people stirring at eliat hour were startled at the news of a suicide in town it appears that john blood a young man of this place had been keeping company with the recently divorced widow of A adams who in maidenhood was known as eva cotton they were engaged to be married but the widow for reason of her own had arrangements range ments made to go to bingham on saturday blood was down to the house where his betrothed was staying until about nine friday evening from whence he went home she accod jeanying him to the gate where the two ad a lovers chat in which sir B asked her if she would live true to him i during her absence her reply she states was in the affirmative and just what she intended to carry out after reaching home he went to bed for a short time from whence he soon returned directly to the whereabouts cf miss cotton whom together with his own sister he found in bed he was admitted on application when a light was made some words oi not a bad nature were exchanged by the parties when the suicide declared his foolhardy fool hardy intentions it seems that he possessed a pistol in each hand one of which the frightened females succeeded in obtaining from him some of the contents of the other one however he succeeded in emptying into his head just behind his ear one lady remained with the already dead body while the other sought help which when obtained relieved the frightened ladies of a portion of their fear and responsibility from the statement of the interested lady it seems that john threatened the same thing some time ago in bingham his father also states that on leaving for bingham the last time and friday night when he arose from bed to leave were the only times their son had ever bidden them a bye though the greater part of his life has been spent in rambling from place to place and from home to work this makes it appear premeditated kb word has yet been found left to any one therefore the exact cause is not known although the general supposition is that miss cotton his lady love is in some way though perhaps innocently so connected with rash act let that green eyed conater mo nater jealousy bear some of the blame he was buried sunday morning in a remote comer of the graveyard far from all other graves except those of three other men who came to their deaths by the workings of their own hands |