OCR Text |
Show 'DESPONDENT MAN ENDS IS LIFE SALT LAKE, June 15. Despondency Despond-ency due to domestic troubles is believed be-lieved to have 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 a 38-calibre revolver in his mouth and the bullet came out through tho back of hia head. He died instantly. Patrolmen Thomas Gillespie and Hugh Carr declared they found Mrs. McLeod with another revolver. When the weapon was wrested from her she said that she would commit suicide, according to the officers. Brother Comes From Logan. All through the night the woman was under the care of a physician and moaned continuously: "Oh, why did my husband shoot himself?" him-self?" United States Army Sergeant George McLeod of Logan, a brother of the dead man, arrived last night He was unable to throw any light on tho causo of his brother ending his life. At the McLeod home it was stated that McLeod had been drinking heavily heav-ily and had not worked steadily since last September. oo |