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Show EVANSTON M KILLS JMSELF I III Health Held Motive For Suicide Sui-cide of Matt Callahan at Salt Lake. SALT LAKE, July 9. III health and n Pp roach I rig blindness are believed by i the police to have been tho reasons' which caused Matt Callahan, 65. or ESVanston, Wyo , to shoot himself through tho heart yesterday morning at 5 o'clock In front of the Amelia Palace on South Temple street According to the police report, Joseph Jo-seph Emery and James Hurt, patrol-! men. were standing near the scene of the shooting, when the man Suddenly drew ft gun and fired the fatal shot before they could reach Tilm. Other officers were called to the scene nnd the man rushed lo the emergency hos-, pltal, but died a few moments after, arrival. The body was laken to the I, D Evnns Undertaking parlor, where it was Identified Iden-tified by Jack Edwards, a barber, who knew Callahan for LWSnty years Ua-i vld Mills, a fireman, and Mrs. John Cunningham, l'liJ3 Seventh East street., jn SiSter-in-law Mrs. Leroy i rr of Ohnrm, Colo., another Blster-ln-IaW, was also notified, According to Edwards, Callahan was in business at Pineda le. Wvo. For many years he wan a conductor on the, union Pacific. Investigation revealed Ihe man had engaged u room at the Savoy hotel, where ho hud been Staying Stay-ing for several day. The body will be held here pending the arrival of Mrs. Orr. |