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Show WIFE WITH GUN BESIDE BODY OF M'LEOD SUICIDE Despondency Causes Liquor Man and Politician to End His Life. Salt Lake, June 14. Despondency due to domestic troubles la believed to havo actuated J. K. McLeod, a saloonman and politician, to end his life yesterday at 4 p. m. by shooting himself In the front room of his home, 38 East Sixth South street. McLeod placed to 38-callbre revolver In his mouth and the bullet came out through the back of his head. Ho died Instantly. Petrolmen Thomas Gillespie nnd Hugh Carr declared they found Mrs. McLeod with another revolver. When tho weapon was wrested from her i she said that she would commit suicide, sui-cide, according to the officers. ' Brother Comes From Logan. All through the night the woman was under the icare of a physician and moaned continuously: "Oh, why did my husband shoot himself." United States Army Sergeant Geo. McLeod of Logan, a brother of tho dead man, arrived last night. He was unablo to throw any light on the cause of his brother ending his life. Sergeant McLeod went to Logan a month ago to take charge of the recruiting re-cruiting station. His brother had visited him and returned to Salt Lako two weeks ago. At tho McLeod home it was stated that McLeod had been drinking heavily heav-ily and had not worked steadily since last September. Daughter Hears Shot. When the Bhot was fired, which ended her husband's life, Mrs. Mc-' Lood was upstairs with her little , daughter. She rushed downstairs and found tho body of her husband on tho floor. Death had'been Instantaneous. |