Show SUICIDE MICHAEL AXLE N GROWS weary OF LIFE iafe A yesterday morning michael michaei ax ai lesson a native of sweden who has been livin living at Strom bergs beardi boarding ino ing house hoube oa on franklin avenue committed com mit ted suicide by shooting at about 9 frank 0 swenson who sleeps in the next nest room to that tbt occupied by lesson Ax was startled by hearing a pistol shot in the lat latter iatter tens room and nearing him exclaim in a low tone oh swenson dressed himself and tried the door which was locked ile he then ohen assisted by chrle christ johnson burst into the room this being about hall half an hour after the shoo shooting 1 I on the bed at f full fuli ull uli length oa on his ba backlay backity backI ng lay ay A unconscious but still alive III in his right hand baud was the pistol with which the shooting was done and in his bed near his nis right h aud hand lay an 0 open pocket knife with avith a very keen dge edge while the blood iiii very was gushing us ing from a wound just above th the e right car th the e bullet had ran ranged ed forward and was lod iod lodged q ed cheek bone at 1045 1041 the dy dying ing man breathed his last liht the 0 ulcers were notified no titled aud and tny tar body taken to sexton TV tay lors tors ors office where an inquest was held heid he d by coroner taylor and the following verdict rend rendered dreb dred an inquisition holden holon at joseph E taylors lors office in the fifth precinct of sait salt lake city on the day of may 1885 1883 before geo J taylor coroner of saiz said said sald county upon the body of michael Ax lesson there lying dead by the jurors whose nimes names are aye hereunto subscribed bed 3 the said jurors on their oaths do say from the evidence presented that he died at Strom bergs boarding house on franklin avenue in salt at 1045 1043 a in of ditl miti may 1111 17 1885 from athe the enn eff effects acts of a pistoia pistol shot ared fired byais own hand in testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands the day and year above written J W jr J D owris E T talok talor jurors frank otto swenson B J beer jr and W P F beer were examined as witnesses 1 the deceased was about alf nifty fifty ty fo four ar years of a ae age e and a dative native of nordland sweden where two of his bis brothers reside he also has a sister in wisconsin the only effects and papers that were found belonging belong ina lna to him w were e re a zions savings bank account with a balance of 1700 1 1 00 in his favor a gold watch said to have cost him 65 with at T W Ellek ellerbeck beck salt lake city june 1870 engraved on the back a british bulldog pearl handled pistol a port monaie containing Q 05 03 05 a joint deed to himself and one Pe petersen fergen fersen for fifty teet feet in the evanston minin mining lode big cottonwood and a bill tor for worth of cloth for the past six months lie be had b been een suffering from rheumatism and sore eyes last march he made an unsuccessful attempt on his life and when speaking of it to swenson said that an anun unseen geen hand held his wrist and he heard a voice forbidding him to commit the deed ile he also stated that lie he had provided himself with pistols razors and morphine to kill himself and on saturday was talking to swenson of the quickest method of accomplishing comp complis lishing hing hins this end L that the act was a premeditated one it is also said that lie be had been connected with spiritual stances se ances which had affected bis his mind |