Show ANOTHER SALT LAKE SUICIDE the ghastly discus cry made at ensign mcall wednesday afternoon dr john smith jr of washington D C who is visiting salt lake started ont to view the city he walked up over Capito hill and then followed the road which leads aromnd to the west of ensign peak at a point directly east from the glass works and a abort distance from the road ia an old quarry which attracted the gent lemans attention and be walked up to it the first object which ho noticed upon reaching the quarry was a man lying at full length upon the ground at first he appealed to be sleeping but a closer examination showed that he was dead the doctor horrified by his dis covery immediately returned to to the city and at about 5 informed marshal solomon of what he bad seen in a short time the marshal coroner taylor and others started for the scene and upon arri vinat tho enary found the body of a man lying there in an easy position as though bleeding bleeping Ble the arms were outstretched and the limbs crossed the face was quite black and swollen and the body so badly decomposed that the features could not be distinguished the hat was baill on the head and an overcoat was under the body near which were the fragments of a photograph and a card of the st elmo hotel the body was that of a man about 40 jears old about 5 feet 10 inches in height and quite heavily built weighing perhaps pounds he had dark brown hair and a moustache and was slightly bald he was dressed in a black cutaway coat black vest and dark stripped panta and wore a brown felt hat tho clothes were tailor made and ct fine quality on the body were noticed agold chain a diamond or brilliant pin and other articles of jewelry it was evident that lie waa a gentleman and the circumstances indicate that he committed suicide dr smith thinks that lie took morphine powder after viewing the body for a few minutes it was placed in n coffin and taden to alie se stone owing to thu lateness of the lion it aas docia d to p the inquest antil yesterday and ali body was placed in an airtight air tight box without examination an inquest was hald aher dr L E smith the gentle ann ailio found the boxly and after ward rendered the and coroner v assistance in removing alie rename to the city wa the first witness t he lift aid fays that after describing w he fiihr 0 o 10 hody lif kiil liil 0 i ip tr t r 1 mon tsi tricy annul upon the raf ra f a containing contain ine 45 in jalil and ia in two chandker pt neil knife a silver and deain and a memorandum book uhichi contained a madr by the schowine clearly that he committed sni cida nothing waa found upon him hy which his identity could be marshal solomon to the airn and condition of the body when discovered the memorandum rook was hero produced it contained but a few leaves alie others evidently bavine been torn out fr the durpos e of conce allne his identity the statement is as follows POT LAKE creyi have come here for the purpose of duttine an end to my life no one would alame me if they duew my reason for it my reason for comin to 4 strange place iao that r my identity will not be established my people are all respectable but I 1 inn alie one black of my fathers fold sly people are thousands of miles from here so the best way is alie 50 which yon will find in my overcoat pocket make a box and bury my remains it amny be that I 1 will never be found for I 1 propose boing poing out into alie country if bot it ft ill be all the better very sad dying in such a way but it was brought on by my own dissipation may god furtive me and may god bless the ones that may find me and treat me as a human being good b ip farther on in the book he had written the follow in if my body is found and the 50 will not defray alie expenses please sell my watch t dont want to be a burden to anyone all of the foregoing was written in a firm legible hand and to it was added his postscript which was evidently eviden tl written after the poison had commenced to take ive taken the laudanum but I 1 fear it is not guing to do its work I 1 feel happy and want to die I 1 have faith in bod and trust he will carry me safely through the valley of deatle my people are all methodists and if I 1 die 1 would like to be buried by alie methodists at one time I 1 was a member of that church this was all the evidence and the jury rendered a to the effect that the deceased came to hia death from two to three weeks ago from the effects of laudanum poison self administered the body was interred soon alie inquest an d in accordance with the request made by the deceased the burial bervice by the methodist church was performed rev C M libby official gnp the inquest has shed some light upon the affair it lias at least shown that it was a suicide and given a duo to the cause of the rash act but the mans identity ia as completely shrouded in mystery and it is doubtful if it will eyer be established doubtless there are hearts that will mourn the loss of one who will never 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