Show SHEET USED FOR SUICIDE i Joseph Laford Idaho Ranchman Ranch Ranch- man Found Dead in Rooming Rooming Rooming Room Room- 4 ing House I SUICIDE IS APPARENT Body Discovered on Floor After Improvised Noose Is Broken Joseph Laford aged 60 GO years of vi Spencer Idaho s sang nG Climbing Up Ur tIle the Golden Stairs as us ho w went nt upstairs up up- stairs to his room in th the Railroad Exchange Exchange Exchange Ex Ex- Ex- Ex change South Temple and Third W West st streets o owing the world Just 30 SO cents for or hL last supper and then hanged I himself with a bed sheet fastened to ar a r clothes hook at an early earh hour Tuesday l morning His body was with was discovered on n u. u 5 rJ l' l tho floor loor at about 11 o'clock last and J. J B. B OBrien O'Brien I by 13 3 James who forced an entrance to the room 1 1 I to ascertain wh why Laford had left lort the light burning Xo No o motive Is It known for the tho dead deadmans deadman's deadmans mans man's action and little I Is bt known of him in this city lie He registered cd at th the Exchange lat late la last t Monday Monda saying ho lie had come from Spencer Idaho where he was employed ed as ag foreman on a 0 ranch for or the tho Wood Live LiveStock Stock tock company A letter thanking him for tor a a. contribution of flowers at atthe tho the death of ot tho the late lato John D. D Wood Tood who was killed in the Ore Oregon on Short Line yards recently substantiated his claim to being beIng- connected with the thc live livestock livestock stock company Laford had paid for Cor his room three days In advance but had been drinking drink drink- inS ing ng and aid had no money mone to pay pa for the cent 30 supper ho he ato ate a about out 1 o'clock Tuesday morning The Thc appearance of or orthe the body od indicated that the man had been dead since shortly after that thai time Dan Willet met a waiter at the thi I Exchange heard Laford rd singing as he Went upstairs s. Laford had evidently tied tiel the bed sheet to the clothes hook fastened the oth other r end a about out his neck and from the be bed death re resulting ro- ro from strangulation The sheet heet hud ud been torn by the tho weight of or th the l body ody and allowed It to slip to the floor Joor On Monday Laford Lator told Daniel Willet VII Wll him Thursday Thurs Thurs- let he had coming cominS' to day da morning and would be able ablo to settle hi his bills for board hoard at that time No o mone money was found on his person A Aman man anan giving the name of ot Miles J. J Hill Hili inquired for tor Luford Laford at the Exchange several ml times thine yesterday but did not state the object of ot his visit The rhe bod body was taken to the Taylor Talor undertaking establishment after be- be beI beIng Jn Ing viewed Jewed by Coroner Stanley Stanle A. A I Coroner Hanks said last night that the case appeared e d to be a n. plain suicide Communication will be hadt ha had t with Spencer to discover cr If Laford had f relatives living and if It his claim to toha toL ha having money coming to him Is true L |