| Show LOST BIS JOB AND TOOK LIFE had told many friend of Ws inton tion and shown gun to saloon man from fridays standard despondent over the loss of hia po a the decker brewery from which he was discharged yesterday noon bloss richardson of reevs avenue took his life in an outbuilding in the rear of his home at 4 yesterday afternoon by shooting him self through the head with a 38 calibre revolver death was almost instantaneous as he had breathed his last when discovered by bis wife am mediately after the shooting the dead man who was 25 deais of age was a son of mr and sirs chauncey Cha W richardson he came 0 o ogden about a year ago and has resided hero since that time he was a rela yve of ezra and william richardson and leaves a wife to whom he has been married a short time but no chil dren shortly before four aestor i day afternoon richardson returned to his homo and after chatting a shor while with his wife went to a build ing in tho rear of his premises he had absen gone but a few moments g when his wife hear a shot ring out 5 and believing it to have been fired f somewhere in the rear of the house rushed to the outbuilding and upon op enang the door found her husband ly ing on the floor dead the shock was too much for the young woman and she tell in a faint neighbors seeing her tall rushed to her assistance and took her into the bouse where they revived her while othera telephoned for the police and for dr G A dackson captin brown and officers Morriss fl v and layne responded to the call as did also dr dickson and they together with H B duckworth removed the body of the dead man from the building and laid it upon the ground where dr dickson made an examination and I 1 pronounced richardson to be dead larkin and sons were notified of the death and removed the body to their undertaking parlors where if will be prepared tor burial it is seldom that people who intend to take their lives go abbat and tell their friends of their intentions but richardson before he took the fatal step notified a number of people some of whom took him seriously and tried to dissuade him from doing such a thing lit after richardson had been ed from his position yesterday noon he came up town and visited a number of places of which the little queen saloon was one there he told joseph bott one of the proprietors after taking a drink that it was the j last drink that he would ever take as M he intended to kin himself at tho same time showing mr bott the hurt i of a revolver which he carried in his bott knowing thab the tuan was despondent and fearing thai he was sincere in his intention to take his life tried to dissuade him from eo doing and tried to get him to give him his revolver this richardson refused to do and shortly after left the saloon richardson had been gone but a short time when officer morrissey came along and mr bott notified him of what richardson had said and stated that he feared that the man would execute his threat officer morrissey at once tried to lo 10 cato richardson and sent to his former residence on franf avenue onh to find that the man had moved to reeve avenue to which place bo was on his way when overtaken by the pa arol wagon and told that richardson had killed himself after leaving the saloon richardson went to the home of his sister mrs james dinsdale and told her that he was going to kill himself and from her residence went to his home where ho committed the deed richardson also told a number of his fellow employed emp loyes at the brewery that he intended to kill himself but did not take his statement as i seriously as did mr bott the young wife who was A miss pet erson of baker city oregon is prostrated over the tragic death of her husband last night her grief was un controllable and she was in a serious condition the time and date of the funeral will be announced later |
