Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-19 | Page 3 | Slashes Throat and Soon Dies

. oo SLASHES THROAT Ai SOON DIES Salt Lake, July 19. Failing In an attempt to hang himself with a fragment frag-ment of suspender, SalachI Uyeno, a Japanese laborer, aged about 36 years, cut his throat with a razor and" died shortly afterwards, last night, at 7:30 o'clock at a Japanese rooming house, 235-237 West First South street, of which Thomas Hara Is proprietor. It Is believed by Japanese roomers in tho house that Uyeno was temporarily tempo-rarily deranged when he. took his life and no other reason for the act can be assigned. The proprietor of the house said that Uyeno had been acting act-ing in a peculiar manner and during most of Monday night had spent the time Jn weeping and wringing his hands. The tragedy last night was not anticipated. Knowledge of the act came In a ghastly fashion. Hara saw Uyeno run down stairs two stops at a time with a gash two inches long in his throat and blood pumping Into his face from the severed jugular vein. After making mak-ing the deep wound with the razor Uyeno ran out of his room, down tho hall, down stairs to the front door, then back into the corridor, where ho fell upon the floor and died In less than a minute afterwards. He had inflicted the wound while upon his bed, as evidenced by a pool of blood on the bedcovers. Also upon tho bed was found a piece of suspender suspend-er which had been cut from n pair of bib overalls. This had been made into a loop and on the other end was tied a towel. The Japanese had re-, moved the electric light cord In the room and tied the towel' to a gas pipe which protruded about a foot from the ceiling. It was evident that he had attempted to hang himself from the gas pipe with the aid of this makeshift contrivance, but that the towel had refused to hold, or was not firmly enough tied to the pipe and had given away when ho placed his head in the noose and allowed him to fall to the bed.