Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-11-18 | Page 3 | Suicide in Jail

SUICIDE IN JAIL. John Ott, a Prisoner nt Oreit Tails, Kills Himself. Great Tulls, Mnut Nov 15 John Ott cnmmltlcit siilcldn In Iho living room of tho count) Jail at bhelby Junction lust evening ami there Is union to believe be-lieve that In Ida eleath tho I tvv lost a man who hail been at tho hind or a gang nf burgluts anil thieves, whose liptrullnns tuvcicd lit least tllllo MutlH, Unhiding North Dakota and Utah Ott hail been about bhelby fur sev-eiul sev-eiul months mst and Iho iiintlnueil senilliiR nnd tcielvlng of paekuRPH bj liltu tlitottgli the exj resa caiiaeii the authorities to look upon him with suspicion, sus-picion, anil acting upon a hint f 10111 a fellovv-vvoiker, Ott vv.in nru sled In his lent was found u cue ho nf several hui died dolluis worth of nil kinds of goods, rnnglng from n lady h dross to a Set of Bllvcr culler) Yesterday afternoon Iho train front tho Kast brought n rlhcrlft finin (irutiil Korka and Ott was rccngnlicd by him us a man wanted In North Dakota for grand larceny nnd the head nf what was believed tn be unorganized hung of robbers Ott seemed downeust ufter he had been rerogulzcil und nuked to be allowed to cuine nut in the living room lo write a letter In one cm net of the 100111 was an empty rifle Ott hud cartildgea und when ho wns let Into the room he seeureel the rllli loading It with one of Iho cartridges shot him. self through the cat before any ono could reuch hint