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Show A STHANGEJUICIDE. Tbt Coronet's Iiq.tst Oier tbt Body of Miss Hitll.t Goodmimoa. Tin: casi. ne;iiiinuuri i mis-ti mis-ti itv. tot the Slightest Csn.e Assigned for the Tragic Itrcd. The llemalui . Srat II..BI. Corinrr Harris held an Inquosl last evening over the lo.lyol MatlldaUoud manson, the joiing womau who died from strychnine poisoning at Ihe reel dene, of Mr, Ilryanl Voung, at North Halt Lake, at an early hour ycitrrday morning, aa announced in lost even Ing'a Nl wrt. Ttie oOlclal Inquiry failed to reveal the allghteet clue as to why the terrible act of aelf deslruitlou tied Ueii com milled. The dertastd appeared lo have been of high moral charailcr, and to faraiknowu had uever kojt company with men, and the rumor that the cause of her death wai unrequited love li thererbre questionable. Ilryant Voung waa the first witness. He leatlfifd The deceased was em ployed In my housed ld aa a domestic; last night aluut 11:1) I was uwaltned by K series of strange eounda coming frum her room; upon limelli.Uon I found lhat the assailed Willi a sinij her eyes were glassy, her teeth sit, her hands strongly cleuched and froth wai uoilog from hir mouth; my mother lives about a fourth of a mile from my buuso and thither Iran as fast ai 1 could aud Informed her that Matilda fjondmauiou, i ur hired glrl,was dying; I returned home as quickly as oelble and In a few minutes my mother and sister and a Mr. Iterry lame In; my mother Inquired o! tliedcx.e.l If she had taken polsou; she uglled she bad taken "something," tut what she would not llate; thedecsased wai lylug face downward on her bed In her own room; ihe api-eared lo ti lu Ihe greatest hyslcal agony innilble; atout 12.Su thli moriiicgdeaili came Ut her rellel: she waa about eighteen y.an of age and wai tt rcsldutit ot Huitilih lurk; I believe the committed eutclde by UVIng strychiilue, have no Idm why si e did ", or that she had prevl ously content; lated aelf-deslruitlon, though she laughingly said, u few days ago, tl at we must uot be surprised If her IIMusi body should be found on the cot some morning; she had Ucu tu my wlte'a rnqdoy about live wteks, and during that time roved herself above suspicion lueviry way, alsjul two weeks ago my wife mlieu a quantity of strychnine with n imsll amuunt of Hour, It waa laiod under the cuj boar J t.) ulson ralci; tbo deceased know It as there; the mlilure, which he been licapvdupllku a pyramid, upon Investigation oday showed signs of having been disturbed ly n i-rriuu's tlugers. Mary 1',. Voting testified I first met the deceased at my home In North Hilt Lake, on the 3rd of April last, I emiloyedlur as servant girl in my boardltigthouse on that date; she re-mslned re-mslned tt llii me until June 7th, wheu she went to lloutitllul loworkfora family uamed Vlgllril. about five weeks ago alio relumed lu Nortli Halt Lake, slucu which time she haa been worklug for my daughler-lu-law, Mrs Ilryanl Vouug, I was In her company all of yesterday afternoon and she was merry all the time, about 0 o'clock I left Mrs. Vouug's to go home, at eight o'clock the detested camelo my houso on au errand bulrcmalncd uearlytwo hours, after which she returned home alone; shortly before 12 u'clock, midnight, my sou came running tu my house ami Informed In-formed me tint MatlUa waa dying, I drew I myself ae quickly as I could and went to his home, whetu I found her on her bed, partially undressed and lying face downward, she apjer-cd apjer-cd lo bosuUerlugfrom sevire crauq, hut as froth was coming from between her llpa I Inquired If she had takcu aiijlUlug and she reilled that aha was dying; I then reuewed mr queitlou and she atiiweretl "Ves," but what It was she would not state ; sho also refused to tUte why she did It, at l.-TOshe died; do not think that the was In any way Implicated with a man, as I firmly be-llevethatslia be-llevethatslia was a virtuous girl, she never kept company with anyone so far aa I knew. J. T. lleiry waa neil put on the witness wit-ness stand. Ills testimony was sub stautlally the same aa that of the pre. oeedlug wltnuehes. Dr. l.wlng testified I have made a careful examination of the body of the dectased, and no ilgns of external violence ale visible; from the lymi toiui I woul I say that tjin death of the tie. ceutdwaidue tu strychnine lson lng. The Jury, after c, brief consultation, rendered a verdict to the effect lhat the decisstd came to her dcath from stryclmlue, self administered, with suicidal Intent. riie relative of thu deceased were ai rise of thetraglo occurrence, and a brother In law came up from H aolsh Fork over the Union 1'aclflo last night and took the body home over the same route Ibis morning, for burial. |