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Show Ends Life With Gun; Had Strange Career By shooting himself twice with a revolver, J. C. Jensen, an aged resident resi-dent of Ephraim, committed suicide at his home on South Main street about 7 o'clock Monday evening. He had not been well for many years, and about three years ago his conditio! condi-tio! was such that the district court placed him unce.- the guardianship of members of his family. Last fall he underwent a surgical operation but it is said that his condition became be-came more painful since the operation. opera-tion. Monday evening he was in his room upstairs while his wife was working in the kitchen. He asked her to go let the cow into the corral. Mrs. Jensen had just left the house when she heard a shot in her husband's room. She hastened upstairs and found Mr. Jensen lying on the floor. Neighbors who had heard the shots ran to the house, and physicians were summoned at once, but life was extinct when they arrived. It was found that two shots had been fired and that one of the bullets had entered en-tered the chest below the heart while the other penetrated the skull behind be-hind the right ear. Mr. Jensen had secured the revolver by making a key 'to fit the 6ck on a trunk in which it was intended to keep the weapon out of his reach. Mr. Jensen's life was filled with many vicissitudes. While still a boy-he boy-he left his home in Denmark to find adventure and fortune in the New World. He spent several years in Brazil and witnessed some of the mostexciting times of that country's troubled career; and one time he was machinist on a Brazilian man-o'-war. The first letter which he wrote to his parents after many years' absence ab-sence was returned to him with the information that the addresses could not be found. After inquiry and trouble he learned that his parents had gone to Utah; and finally he joined his family at Ephraim. Enterprise En-terprise July 24th. ' |