Show VETERAN WOULD WL DI DIT DIE DIETO TO T JOIN LIFE Wi TE Grizzled Soldier Fires Bullet Into Head in Fit of Grief Over Death of Wife Bury This With Me I Is Farewell Message Attached to Old Fashioned Photograph William McNulty who shot himself this morning died at the emer emergency ency hospital this afternoon shortly before 2 The sweet face of a woman about 40 her hair combed high after the old style and her dress buttoned tightly down the front looks out of a small metal cased photograph found this morning beside the pillow of William McNulty a year old civil war veteran McNulty lay in his bed with a revolver clutched In his hand a bullet hole hofe in his in-his His head head head- he had attempted suicide Bury this with me were the words of a note scrawled apparently with a trembling hand The note nole was under the photograph It is believed the picture is that of the aged mans man's wife probably dead as ashe ashe ashe he is known to have bave lived alone for forthe forthe forthe the last year He i is at the emergency hospital st still alive despite a bull bullet t wound in his right temple for the g gun n he used was of small caliber But his death is ex expected expected expected ex- ex at any moment Despondency of A a man who has lived an active life and who lost the use of his limbs as old age crept on caus caused d the veterans veteran's act is the belief or N. N C. C Christensen a friend and neighbor who found him at 9 o'clock this morning morning morning morn morn- ing in his unkempt room at a a. rooming house 36 South West Temple Christensen runs a grocery store Inthe in inthe inthe the neighborhood Since McNulty has been confined to his room for the last few weeks the grocery man has vIsited visited visited vis vIs- vis- vis him frequently tal taking ing him gro gro- caries ceries This morning at 9 o'clock he went there Several raps failed to bring an answer The door was locked Christensen broke it open There on the bed blood streaming from the ugly wound in his head lay laythe laythe laythe the veteran the gun In his right hand and the and Its pathetic little note riots beside him Physicians believe he shot himself about 8 o'clock and that he lay there therean an hour before being found No one in inthe inthe the rooming house heard the shot Little is known of him except he has been in Salt Lake Lak about three years and apparently r always had enough money to meet his slender wants Letters Letters Letters Let Let- Indicate he came here from Den Den- ver The picture of the woman is of the style taken about thirty years ago A letter addressed to his sister Mrs M. M R. R Brinkerhoff Mansfield 0 O. sealed but unstamped was found It read I am returning the money I 1 cant can't live this way It has been learned he drew a civil war pension |