Deseret Evening News | 1903-05-14 | Page 7 | Layton

LAYTON SUICIDE Levi Green Shoots Himself In Pres imas Presence ence enco or Special Correspondence Lay Layton ton Davis Co May IS Green ot of this place deliberately shot himself with suicidal Intent at tilt his home borne this morning The Tho act Is thought to bo be the culmination of an overIndulgence In drink Green shot himself In the presence of hU his wife and anda a neighbor who were In an ad adJoining adjoinIng Joining room while he lie was preparing to shuffle off When he had placed pieced the title rifle against his breast tn In the region of time the heart he tie called a goodbye goodbe to hIs bis wife and ticked her to take cart care of the children Sue Sho rushed Into tIme the room Just tin hut her husband leaned forward anti and lulled the trigger of the title rifle She made nn on effort to knock time the weapon out of his hands but was ful oh A second later the deed had been committed The bullet plowed Its way time the breast inking an upward course passed through the shoulder and came out Just above the tho shoulder blade bible Mr Jilt Green Is about 60 GO years old oil and has a large family There U Is sold to b be but one chance In a hundred for his hl recovery recover Despondency Is Ia the tho only rea pen on given for this the rash not net