Show we learn suicide from a private letter that an old gentleman by the name of petterson living at cleveland in snake river valley recently committed suicide by hanging the old gent lemans actions had excited some comment for a day or two and one evening he went into the house of a neighbor and sat the whole evening without saying a word when he got up to leave he shook hands with his neighbor and bade him goodbye good bye the gentleman aaker where he was going and he said he was going home nothing more was seen or heard of mr petterson for a day or two when he was dis covered in his dugout suspended from the ridgepole ridge pole by a rope A justice of the peace went from eagle rock to the scene and an inquest held the joiy deciding that the old gentleman had committed by hanging mr petterson seemed to be in very good circumstances financially and it is thought th at some severe mental trouble was the cause of his ending his earthly ca reer mr petterson has a daugh berof seventeen or eighteen years of age living at paris bear lake County Idaho |