Show suicide Str icide of J JW W moffit john na moffit one of the p ol 01 0 pint r int e D str ct and the past twenty two years a of silver city coin bitted suicide wh ie Is on the R 0 girande grande passenger train between provo and sp ing TilIe ville last friday evening in coin ganv with J M taylor he was return ing from the former place to h a home i in bilter city mr hid on to leave the car tor for a few minutes and apoi hn his return Mr moffit informed him t atiat bat he had just drank the contents of a small bottle of eathol e acid M r taylor thought his hi friend vas v as jesting and started to ti question him but mr moffit was seized with convulsions and died with n a few minutes upon reaching cpr maville the body was taken fro from in the tra n and a phy ician summoned but life wag was extinct despondency over financial d is supposed eup posed to nave caused mr nir moffit to take his own I 1 fe the remains were to silver 0 ty on the following evening and the funeral services were con ducted from tan opera house at that place S sinday afternoon na der the auspices of silver city alty tent no 11 K 0 T M of which order the deceased was a member B hop J nt taylor 1 delivered the funeral sermon the burial took place in the silver city seal em eatery under the direction of undertaker wallace john W moffit was 75 years of age and has resided at silver city contina bously since dee may 1881 for a few years previous to that time he was engaged in mining at park cita and before coming to utah followed the seme business in nevada for a number of years past he has been engaged in the ore hauling bag bus mess he ile leaves A wife and six ch idren |