Show SELF belr MURDER joseph simon vasquez blows ills his onu own brains out on friday tho dinst am named J joseph mph simons vasquez committed self destruction at mountain springs sin in this territory vasquez was 28 years of age and had for several yeara suffered ered from froin rheumatism from the effects of which he had been confined to hia his bed it appears the unfortunate man had been rendered dc desperate p aate by his suffering and that about 11 on friday nov 10 ho lie ordered his girl r aged ged 10 to bring him his F loaded I P astol he took the iven weapon por I placed it to his hi temple stemple and seat sent its contents crashing through hia lis heau lidd I his ilia wife left alane with three children the eldest only 10 yeara years old cau caught ht the horses borses barn harnessed ewed and hi hitched toted them to a wagon in which the she placed the body of dofher her husband and drove to sulphur springs the same night and thence via deseret station and panaca to pioche bringing the body there for burial by request of other her husband made on the rooming of hia death ghedit the distance traveled tave traveled led was eighty miles the drive occupying three davs the deceased was a cousin of vasquez the noted california desperado V |