Show JAS PITT SUICIDES last thursday evening tile the wol word ll 11 1 was passed around that jim pitt ha had 11 killed himself down in goldfield nev ner next in morning orning the report was confirmed and the sympathy of the whole community went out to mrs pitt ind and lier her children so s suddenly bereft of a husband and father and almost universal sympathy sm pathy was felt for A mr 11 pitt himself at having fallen into inlo such desperate str straits alts the dispatches said that the he act was committed in a room of the merchants hotel at columbia nov one of the mining camps by pitt shooting I 1 ng himself through t the he right tent temple 1 with a 38 calibre automatic revolver and death was james T pitt patt was 11 years ot of age ire he was a graduate of the salt lake academy and was left a considerable sum of money by his father when I 1 he le died jim followed stock raising and rati ranching ching for a I 1 number of years being lit in partnership partner shii with J Y rich in 1803 1905 the business failed and mr arr pitt lost everything lie he hal had soon after lie ho left for goldfield nev to try his h ls hand tau at mining in the hope of restoring ills his lost fortune but fate seemed to be against him ind and lie he worked along at one thing and another until ho I 1 could bear up no longer on when lie he committed the rash let act of taking ills his own life ile he leaves a wife and three tareo sons and we feel truly to sympathize with thorn them in this terrible hour and PT pray a y continued on page 4 JAMES PUT PITT SUICIDES continued aiom page one olle that they rill might alit have strength to beat up nil and press onward we give alve the account as chronicled liy by the ho intermountain inter mountain republican goldfield nov nev aug 28 follo follow ig a fit of despondency over financial jai affairs james pitt a former well known resident of utah took ills his life at the merchants hotel columbia this morning hy by shooting himself through the right temple the wea jion lion used was a 38 calibre automatic and death was that pitt contemplated self de there th ereis is no doubt hespect he spent wednesday at the home at 0 his nephew thornley thornier heywood who resides in ili goldfield pitt appeared early in ili the morning a shadow of his former self and on being questioned admitted that hat lie he was ill III and had not slept for four nights lie he declared holiad passed the nights roaming about aboud the hills surrounding goldfield during the cl day OY lie he talked much ot of ills his ill III luck lie he said thai hat although he had tried ever since coming here in february to lo secure permanent employment had been unsuccessful and lad worked only six weeks during the summer months luck lias has gone back on oil me said i he and I 1 ani am no longer any good to myself or anyone else the sooner I 1 am out of the way the better FINDS REVOLVER MISSING shortly after pitt left the house mrs heywood had occasion to go a to a drawer where mr heywood Hey IleyA wool kept his big revolver she was terror stricken to fo find no revolver anil and immediately ran out of tile the house and in ili the direction pitt had taken she called but received no answer mr heywood came from the mine at 1130 and when told of what lad had occurred started in ili search of pitt pill the sheriff and his deputies were notified and searched the town until 3 2 mr heywood lid did not give up until 4 in ili the morning at which time pitt had not entered its his room at the cants hotel about half past 6 this morn ing heywood called only to find pitt had not returned shortly before 11 lie ile called again L AV dittman Dilt man manager of 0 the hold held went to 10 the loolu found pitt illand in anever to an inquiry told old him that hat heywood was asking for him HEYWOOD WAS TOO LATE LAM dittman returned to the phone after finding pitt was in his i room oom and on inquest from heywood promised to go back and get the revolver vei dittman returned to attend to the wants or of two or three patrons and started for pitts room probably within live five minutes from the time he had spoken will wiil mr rr heywood gut but ag s was too loo late k 17 he ie reached readied tile the linead head ot of tue the stairs U lie he was met by a mald maid rushing towards him and informed him that she had just heard a shot in pitts room dittman broke in ili pitts door and round found the unfortunate man lying across the bed dead the revolver in ili his hand no one connected with the hotel saw pitt enter the house or ills his room it is surmised cd that lie he passed the night roaming about the hills nerving himself to the desperate deed and finally when told lold that heywood was inqui riat tor for him knew that lie must act quickly if at all the body was brought to aalf Sal lahe Lake saturday last lasi and buried eurid sunday ay |