| Show A SUICIDE IN CACHE A MAN CUTS UIS THROAT FROM EAR TO EAR no cause assigned for ilia rash act jurors verdict A logan correspondent to the 0 den standard gives abo following j particulars of a tearful tragedy committed in cache talley last mr george lewis a well known and respected young man thirty years of age of the well known farm of lewis sons furniture dealers logan took it into his head to ride down to benson ward to visit his sister who resides there and also to accompany a younger sister staying there home to logan benson is about nine miles from logan in a northwesterly direction georgo started friday morning about b a m for benson on horseback arriving there he put up his horse and after being in the house for some time enquired of his sister if there was a shaving outfit on the premises he was answered in the and that it could be found in the next room george went in search of said outfit ho scon came back and said he was going down to the pasture to look at hii horses mr robert kew coyhis sisters husband said he would accompany him they got on their horses and traveled perhaps three or four milos They went to the horses and returned to the house lewis all this time carrying the instrument of in his pocket arriving on choir return to the stable they put up their horses mr lewis stated thac he was very sick and wished to go to the corral the house and corral are about yards apart while the stable is about midway between mr kewley went to the house and stayed about thirty minutes mr lewis not arriving he got uneasy about him and went in search when he arrived in the corral he saw mr lewis lying under the beed upon his right sidy he hurried to the spot dead with his Kew leys razor folded up and lying beside him the neighborhood was aroused and quite an ex cit ement prevailed A messenger was sent to logan and as soon as thu sad news reached us we immediately repaired to the spot where the rash act was committed we found upon arrival an investigation going on before justice W L williams a jury having been paneled impaneled im upon investigation vesti gation it was found that the de chased had five wounds three upon the left side of the wind pipe either of which would have killed him ahr jugular vein being severed by the three cuts on the left side ho had two gashes upon the right sida one about an inch in length the other j not much more than a scratch wh young man did this horrible beoo is a mystery to his parents relatives i and acquaintances no causo whatever can be imagined following is the erdice erdi ct of the jury territory of utah benson precinct county of cache an inquisition holden on the premises of bobert kewley ionson pry cache county on the ath da of june A D 1888 before WD williams justice of the peace in benson precinct in said county upon body of george W lewis there lying dead by the jurors whose names hereunto subscribed the said juron upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to his death by wonna inflicted by his own hands and that the act was premeditated and corn bitted through some cause unknown to the jurors ALMA HARMS JONATHAN KICKS JAMES |
