| Show T yf T i shock law suicide tito despret news of tuesday evening reports the fol following loing case of determined self destruction on Frilay April a man mail I 1 alidar apparently about 11 gifts alve years old giving the name of G bickel came to fait salt lake city tind put up tip at the over land house lie stated lie was from california but spoke with a foreign accent and was supposed to bo be a Ge geranen Gern irn ho ile was considerably with w etli rheumatism from w which lie was w as occasionally confined to lna his room he ile was wits well liked among his fellow boarders on oil account of his kindly de demeanor nicanor and good natured affable address yesterday lie stated that lio lie fell felt somewhat better saying sayin before lie retired at night that lie it 0 f felt it no pain but was somewhat sti stiff fr this morning the chambermaid went to his room twice for the purpose of putting iti it in order norder she knocked but neither time received C d an 1 n a answer it S she communicated munica ted this fact to the porter who also tried to gain admittance with a similar result procuring procuring a step lad der lie climbed up tip and looked evoked over tho the transom above the door when a horrible eight sight met his gaze bickel lay dead bythe by alie side of his liis bed bcd air mr pitts tho the proprietor of the hotel was at once summoned and the tile room opened when it was found tit that at bickel h had ad destroyed his life by a most singular gular method he ile had fastened one end of a piece of rope around the post of his bedstead LL very low one placed a noose formed on the I 1 other end around his neck and t absolutely polut sol y strangled stran e d himself to death when found foun his b body ody was prostrate upon the tile floor floo it his i s licad head also being only about an i c i from it tho tito position showed the determined character of theace for had lie had any in inclination cli nation to repent after ti alic e ho ile could have saved himself by jy resting upon liis his arm bick Bickel e I 1 had pr previous evou sto to committing self murder destroyed nearly all evidences dences bychich by chich lie could havo have been identified having even partially erased the address on the tile trunk he ile was about five feet sik six inches in hight lii glit and probably weighed about rounds S ho he had a full short beard arcy and his complexion vas was florid an inquest was held over the bains todal today to dal day by coroner george JT raylor taylor the jury I 1 ury returning a verdict in accordance with flie the forego foregoing lilg facts |
