| Show IS MONEY GONE fiRES FARES BULLET INTO BODY w. w Made Despondent by bV Finan- Finan a del cial Reverses Carries Out His Threat Had lost 1 1000 in Two Months Came ame j Rene Here from Holland a I I Li Despondent over financial difficulties J. J W W. Blom a contractor 51 71 years old attempted suicide at 7 lock Jock this morning by firing 11 1 Ing a bullet from fromn a caliber 38 re relock re- re iver lver into the pit of the thc stomach That the deed was ns pre- pre is evident from the fact that only three days davs o 0 o r he h told a friend that he lie need need not be frightened if he lie h him hill n dead some morning I Prom a man mall of wealth and influence in his own connI coun- coun I y to pov poverty and despondency in the country to which carne came to make Blake more money lousy tells briefly the story of orals om's life In the little town of l Holland a ater ter ter is waiting to hear once each week ycek how her brother 10 getting prosperous l. l in the new ncy world orld She has received e last letter that her hol brother will ill ever write rite for fore forMan j I i I e man is dying I OM I TALKED AS FREELY AS ASI I COULD WHILE LYING IN THE URGENCY HOSPITAL AT THE THEOE WOE WE OE S STATION TION W WAITING FOR I ARRIVAL OF DR PAUL HE HEre re HIS AGE TOLD WHERE HEIB HE IrE IB BORN WHEN HE GAME CAME TO TOS TOS S COUNTRY THE TIlE NAME OF SISTER MRS 1 W. W V. V BAAR AND HIS lIS STRUGGLE TO MAKE MONo MON MON- o HE lIE ADMITTED THAT HE HAD HADD lED D THE F FATAL TAL SHOT AND ANDT T HE WANTED TO DIE HE NOT SHOW A SIGN OF FEAR REGRET WHEN INFORMED T HIS WISH WOULD PROBA PROBA- BE GRATIFIED Mom Born Jom came ramo to Salt Lake City Cit several tbs ago JO and eD engaged l in house build- build and contracting Tho The possibilities akin aking money in the tho metropolis of I ain comity attracted f I Blom to this city At t first he ho was as sueI sue sue- I and aDl is jg aid said to have havo m made considerable con Mn- i mono money Later he took a num- num ber of contracts contract which did not turn out outI I t I I so fiO well lJJ well luid nd d' d h hj lost what ho had made Was Vas Losing Money I Soma time limo ago a ago ho o ho took a 11 contract to cr erect ct a n. house at the order of Roosevelt I I avenue and Tenth S Stith uth street A few feY days das ago ho complained that ho was ag los los- I ill ing money moner on the contract eintract and that ho bo doubted whether he would bo ho able to I finish it I At that time he estimated hi his losses in ill the last ast month or two at 1000 This I to pro prey on his mind and his friends s noticed that Hat ho was despondent and had little to ray lay except about these reverses re Three days dij ago l 0 he told Cornelius Kooyman with whose parents parent he has been boarding n Pi East Elt First South street for the thc list last four or live five weeks wok not to be fri frightened if they found his dead body some sonic mornin morning About 30 0 o'clock dock this thus morning young roun Kooy man heard a sound as though something had bad fallen in one olle of the upper rooms TIe IIo took little notice of it jt until n a fi second later latE his father asked him if he had h heard a shot Liko Like Likon a n Hash flash the tho remark of Blom came to his mind and he ho rushed upstairs I Kicked In the tho Door I I The door to Bloms Blom's room room was WaR locked and young Youn Kooyman Kooman kicked it in Blom was lying on ona a sofa with the blood pouring from a ghastly wound in the pit of his stomach On the floor near the sofa lay the revolver with which the shot had hd be been beon on fired herb her were Iro three empty empt chambers chamber one empty shell hen and one loaded shell in the revolver re loun Young Kooyman called his father and ana then rushed across tho trio str street et and noti oti- oti fiery fied the police c station Driver Sullivan Sulli Sulli- Sullivan van an and Officers Staines and md Kast Jast went nt nt at ogre oure to the house and took Blom to tho the emergency hospital where lH ro Dr Paul Pau was 1 summoned AH As soon Boon as Dr Paul arrived arrived ar Ir- ri rived rid d lie he ordered tho the p patient tient removed Cd t to tho the Hol Holy Cross hospital where oun nun ty Physician Calderwood took char charge e of the tho case An attempt was WIS mad made to locate the bullet tJ but owing to Blom's Bloms s 's weakened wakened condition little progress was I made marle Before being removed remond to th the hospital Blom mom stated that he ht carried a R small life insurance in the tho Metropolitan l Life ife compan com corn pan pang pany |
