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Show CIVIL WAR VEM DIES AT 01 ill William McNulty Fires Bullet Into His Head From Revolver. npsponrlf ncv up. to th; lU'atli of his wi IV ii iuI font inual brood in p nvur ill lira It li am bnlicvp-i to have casir-pil William Wil-liam Ii-ulty, 1-1 yon.ru of atf a i-ivil war votnntn who for the p;Jt tttrei1 vunrn ha li'1i alone in a rooming honso at .'Ui South West Temple Hirer t, to fire a Imllr-t through Ms head hh he by in his bt'd yphterday mornin". The n'd man died shortly alter noon in the emergrnrv hospital. M'Xnliy had ln-rn confined to his bfd for several days, to I lowing an attack at-tack of stomach trouble. He was round dying, with a l.ullet wound in Ins rilit temple, by I'. X. i 'hriti'iwn, ;i friend and neiphbor, who was taliinp procenes tn the man, shortly after ! o Vlork yes-terdav yes-terdav morning. Heside the man lay H revolver of umall caliber. On the pillow pil-low was found a metal cased photograph of the old daguerreotype sivle, eontaui-inpr eontaui-inpr the pictured face of a woman. Inside In-side a folded note bore the word, " Bury this witli me. ' ' ' Ml He is known of the man except that he received a pension and that he has a sister, Mrs. M. K. Brink erhoff . living in Mansfield, Ohio. A letter addressed ad-dressed to her was found in the room. H rend: "I am returning tho money. I can't live this way." Kega-rding the death of the man, Mrs. J. A. Isenhour, proprietress of the rooming room-ing house, said: Mr. McNulty came hero three years ago and had lived here continually con-tinually since that time. He seemed very despondent at times and was confined to his bed' a great deal. He told me some timo ao that ho was from Ohio and before coining here had beon a notary public in Bingham canyon. Often he talked about his experiences in the civil war. Several weeks ago Mr. McNulty sent a note to me .by my 11-year-old daughter, Grace, inquiring the price of a revolver that 1 own and keep in the house' Last Friday he suffered an attack of sickness and when I visited him that night he told me he was going to take his life. T cheered him up as best I could and he appeared in much better bet-ter spirits when I left. No one in tho house heard the shot fired this morning n.nd wo did not know about it until Mr. Christensen broke into the room. WILLIAM MNULTY, who j committed suicide in j rooming house yesterday. j ft - . i 1 '' ' ' a 1 ' I |