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Show ENDS HIS SUFFERING WITH tOAD OF SHOT Salt Lake, Sept 8 After an Illness which his physician diagnosed a6 Incurable, In-curable, and after having been confined con-fined to his bed the greater part of tho time for the past four years, Joseph Jo-seph Clan, an Itallrn miner, aged 50 years, committed suicide at his home, 44 South Fourth West street, by shooting himself in the neck with a shotgun loaded with buckshot Death was Instantaneous. Clan gave his family no warning of his Intentions. He was visited last night by Dr Clarence R. Openshaw and was told that his condition was not lore serious than it had been for six weeks past. Clan occupied a small room in the rear of the houBe while others members of the family occu-pied occu-pied the front rooms. After the physician physi-cian left the house about 9 o'clock , laBt night, the sick man asked his wife if she believed he would die before be-fore morning. She told hlra that there was absolutely no danger of that. Ho was left alone that he might sleep as usual. A shotgun, for which thero was but one shell, had been lying in Clan's room for some time. ' At about 10:30 o'clock last night Mrs. Clan, two small boys and a daughter and a young man who lodges lod-ges In tho house were sitting In a front room when they heard a loud report from the rear room. Clan was? found stretched upon his bed, dead. From his position and the position of the shotgun It was evident that ho had 6at upon the bed, placed the point of the barrel under his chin and pulled the trigger The entire back of his head was blown away. The body was removed to tho O'Donnell undertaking establishment A member of the family said that about six days ago Clan had said that rather than suffer the remainder of his life he much preferred killing himself him-self with his own hand. Dr. Openshaw said last night that -Clan was suffering from heart disease and that, in his mind, there was no doubt that he.had been suffering from senile Insanity when he took his life. The decedent was horn jn Domego, Italy. He cime to the United States about twenty-four years ago arid for twenty-one years had been a naturalized natural-ized citizen. He had worked as a miner In Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. His widow, Mrs. Lena Clan, has lived in Salt Lake for the past thirty-one years. He Is survived by a widow, two boys and one stepdaughter. step-daughter. They are Shono, aged 7 years: Joseph, aged 17 years, and 1 Mrs. M. Caron. ...... ,. - ' f "?T LAH""g' HP |