Show BLOODY MONTH MONTII fOR FOB OR SALT SAU LAKE COr COMS ES TO CLOSE Six suicides es two attempts at self destruction destruction de de- de one brutal mur murder er two unusually unusually un un- un usually murderous assaults together with a a number of fatal accidents made of tho the month ending yesterday a 3 most tragic one Swallowing a doso dose of laudanum fol following following ol lowing a poker game gamo in which he lost nil all ni hi his Avin savings of years cars Jamo cars William a aGerman a aGerman German liS 28 g years year old completed a a series seres of suicides for the month Tho The season seaon of ot tragedy opened with wih the stran o suicide of Harry Harr B. B Davis Davs near ner midnight ht of January 31 in the Thornton rooming house honse 83 f 83 West Cannon street Laudanum was tho means mens February 10 tho most spectacular attempt attempt at nt tempt at self destruction in years oc occurred Oc- Oc at the tho corner corer o of oi Main and First Firs South streets when Mat a ayoung R young oung you walked from tho po lice court where he had been discharged for drunkenness pulled a n pocket knife and while hundreds o ot of pedestrians pedestrian looked on slashed his throat in two hs places Ho Io recovered February 15 Mrs May Hedge Helge W Wood od swallowed morphine with wih fatal results in a rooming room at 43 West Second South Sonth street stroet This case caso was surrounded wih with mysteries mj which have havo not yet been I entirely cleared away With the tho peculiar case of William Androws An An- February 20 O the suicidal wave reached a climax Ho lIe died a fearful death in the afternoon of that da day from froman an abnormal amount of poison In the tlC eight days following four men sought Bought to end their own ow lives succeeding and ono even c now occupying a cot a atho nt at tho Holy Hob Cross hospital with a dangerous danger danger- ous oils wound just over his hz heart Strangled Himself Joseph Laford strangled himself to death wih with a D bed shoot in tho the Railroad Exchange hotel Tho The same samo saro day dav John S S. S Williams shot himself in the breast in tho engine cugino room corn of tho the Auerbach Dr Dry Dr- Dr Goods company's store storo His was not nol fatal Tho next day Clarence Clrence L. L Bakerson Baker son eon of an nn Ore Oregon on minister dres dressed cd himself him himself self Relf in hi lila his wedding clothes placed a bowl of chloroform between his hs pillows and lay lav d down wn with his face fc in tho bowl bowl His wife He had left him that afternoon Yesterday tho month ended with the tr tragedy edy of the gaming tables Tho The pathos pathos pa pa- thos in rn i this last caso case lies les in the tho tact fact that young had bad planned lanned to send tho the mo money ho lost host to Germany Gormany to defray the of bringing his fiancee to fo this city The letter hotter loter which would havo have brou brought h the tho glad ld messa message o to como come to her lover will wi impart tho the tragic news of or hi his demise I In Il i most of tho the instances noted 31 above 1 0 drink had bad much had much to do had been on a t two o weeks weeks' spree previous to cutting cutting cut cut- tn ting his throat Andrews Andrews' act was born bor of a drink crazed mind and Williams is said to havo have been partially drunk at the tho tune timo he ho shot himself Outstrips Chicago Joseph Laford hail had used up up his Int penny Denny in drinking and md committed suicide because over his financial ial con condition Baker Daker perhaps mourned over tho the desertion of his hi young and aDd beautiful wife fe but hut h ho had bad har been drinking heavily several tc hours before he ended his life Rolof drank hard bard for several cral weeks prior to tho fatal poker oker game His lis deed was c prompted by remorse According to r recent cent telegraph dispatches dis patches Chicago has bas suicides an Chicago o has ha approximately tel twenty five times greater population than Salt Lake City an and should tho latter c city t continue at tho the rate established in tho last eight davs days the suid I dal dl- dl statistics would bo be o proportionally I nine nino times times' greater than tho those e of the wind windy city The Tho months month's murder was one ono of the thc most brutal fiendish dee deeds s in in local crime crimo annals Jacob an nn ne aged recluse lvin living in in a lonely hut on tho the outskirts of f Murray Muray was wa b bitten teD and choked to death by unknown murderers murderer who committed d the time deed for a few paltry paltry pal pal- try dollars said to bo be hidden under tIme tho floor of the Sal old mans man's shack Murderous Assaults The county authorities aro arc still sti working work work- in ing on this case caR the only duo cuo of practical practical value bein being a shock of red hair found in iii tho the grasp of the tho murdered man which he lie had hind probably torn tor from front I his assailants head bead in J the death eath glo gb This occure occurred February 18 IS February 21 Mrs Irs Isaac Taylor was stabbed by her father Theodore Syphus as DS she la lay crooning a lullaby to her babe A drink crazed mind inflamed in in- flamed famed by hy tho the sight of the te innocent babe whoso whose had brought shame shamo to tho the Syphus family is said to havo have been responsible for this terrible act Mrs Taylor is recovering The other mur murderous erous assault sault was that of Paul S. S Wilkinsons ons who wh- broke W. W E. E nose with a n blow from his fist 1st last Saturday causing hemorrhages from Prom which it is is not yet ret known whether lie be will wi recover The Tho fatal of the month while perhaps not more moro numerous than han usual were in in several cases moro more tl tragic ic or with wih unusually horrible de dc tails tub I |