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Show A Logan Man Kills Himself Emmet Richeson, of the Second Ward, Shoots Himself in Salt Lake City. Emmet Richeson, of the second -ward, shot and killed himself In Salt Lake City Sunday morning and was brought to Logan Monday for Interment. Inter-ment. Richeson was but 30 years of ago, and his sulcldo Is said to bo the result of despondency over a quarrel with his wife. However, according to relatives, he was hurt about his head In his youth, and It is said to have affected af-fected his mental condition at times. The following account Is taken from thelntermountaln Republican: . "Kramet Richeson of Logan, shot s4k? himself with a 10-bore shotgun early this morning In room 18 of the Colum bia house, on West South Temple street, with suicidal Intent, inflicting wounds that will probably prove fatal. Ills act followed some trouble he Is said to have had with his wife Saturday Satur-day morning. He came here from Logan Lo-gan at noon yesterday, having left home immediately after his trouble. Richeson, soon after arriving In this city yesterday, paid visits to several of his friends, and to them said that lie had some trouble with his wife, and that was the reason of ills coming !hcre. lie Is said to have remarked that the best thing for him to do was to kill himself. At the time he Is said to have been drinking, and his friends gave little attention to his statements, thinking that he did mean them. Secured A Shotgun. Yesterday he went to the Columbia rooming-house on South Temple and engaged a room. lie took his few belongings be-longings to the room and then went out and secured a shotgun. He locked Ills room and was not known to have returned until late last night. As soon as he entered his room lie closed the door and painfully wrote a little note on a piece of brown wrapping paper. It said: . , - "Tell Ann Richeson, telephone Rell Ji2 148K, at Logan, and tell her Emmet ftoTf , Mciiesoq has shot himself. Emmet R." A few minutes after he was heard to enter his room, a shot was heard, and other lodgers rushed into the hallways. hall-ways. Patrolman Pete Tlramlns heard the shot and rushed upstairs, where ho found Richeson lying In a pool of blood. He was breathing hard, but was still alive. An Inspection of the wound showed that the charge from the gun entered his l body just above his right nipple, and to the left of his heart. Ills lungs were filled with buckshot, and It Is feared that his heart has been cut. From all indications, Richeson held the mu7j.lu of tho gun against Ills breast with ills left hand, tho palm being burned. With tils other hand he pulled the trigger. Ths gun was of the type known as a pump gun. The bore was Nl-guage and tho shell was loaded with number 0 shot. Richeson, when told by Ills '.friends that he would got over It, said to them: "I hope 1 don't. It will bo better to end It all." Richeson Is 30 years of age and Is married. He has a son 11 months old, who Is with Mrs. Richeson In Logan. Mrs. Richeson was Ann Blanchard before, be-fore, her marrlago to Richeson, which occurred a little less than two years ago. Wife Is Prostrated. When tho police notified Mrs. Richeson Riche-son by long distance telephone of tho attempted suicide of her husband she was prostrated. She had to call her sister to the telephone to obtain the particulars. This sister said that there had been some trouble at the home Saturday morning but that It was not at all serious, and that It could not possibly have been serious enough to warrant Richeson in his rash act. Richeson was attended by Police Surgeon S. G. Paul, who ordered him taken to St. Mark's Hospital. He expressed ex-pressed the opinion that Richeson could not possibly live. 3 t Richeson died and will be buried as soon as a brother In Kentucky is heard from, |
