Show SUICIDE HT AT mug MUD SPRINGS hr harry J ashby a ho homesteader estead r tabes own life sometime somer ime during monday night tuesday afternoon the people of parowan carowan wes were startled when steve waters rode r into town from mud springs with the information that harry J ashby of the same place was w set found dead in his cabin that morning mr waters stated that he be did not know how the man came to his death but thought that it wag a case of suicide and that it should be in investigated sheriff fife aaa as common communicated t ted with by phone and he arrived in parowan carowan that afternoon and left for the scene accompanied by precinct justice harley dalton dr burton S A halterman win H gurr and alex H rollo the par ty arrived on the scene and dr be eurton burton made an examination of the body after which aich sheriff fife had bad S A halterman alex IT rollo ana win H gurr sworn as jurors to act during dunne the inquest that was held over the corpse the evidence of the dead mans wife fe was taken as well as that ol of her neighbors each declaring that the man had no enemies so far as they he knew that he was of a cheerful disposition disposition had no financial difficulties fie clues and seemed not to have at any tune time an idea ot of destroying himself only one witness a mr fox stated that once just recently the deceased stated that it did not see seem to him that everything was going as it should on his homestead no mo other complaint was ever heard from the lips of the dead man dr burton gave his opinion of how the hot ahot wound was inflicted saying th at it was self inflicted and that the dead man had made dell deli berate aim the bullet ballet penetrating the left side aide of the sternum at the top and took an oblique course downward do anward lodging under the point of nf the left shoulder the wound was made with a high power 22 eal cal rifle eifle and the man was sitting in a chair when whan he fired the fatal shot death was almost instantaneous the body was taken to lund by relatives and an undertaker from f rom mati milford iferd s secured se I 1 to em embalm aim it t so that it might be shipped to michi mil h gan ean where bere the parents of the dead man reside |