Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-16
SELF-DESTRUCTION.
I.vrspce ". Groo Commits Suicide
Wifh a Revolver.

n L NJ ir-il2ll, WHO Wa henllns
f over the Iaiy Of Lawrence w.
D. g-.o. aged uine.ecn years, pre-
g uauncc.l him dead.
L The =reuy was laid in the old
blacksmith shop % Eilcrbeck K
+. / Gr,a. on the east side Of CONNER
ria! street, ami was Truly one Of
horror. The breIthless corpse lay on
. ft,Iark in amlss Of clagulatesi gore
su the floor Of the blacksmith shop.
ami barely within the hack door.
Tie head was thrown backward
auI 20 the len in an unnatural 20
-i,iou. and GA the right eide Of il.
aud extending backward three or
four inches. was a gaping wound
! through which the i'Iaia exuied.
B-tween She feet laya il=,alibre r.
voIvyr.
{ The particulars Of the tragedy
I were A. follows: The deceased and J.
( O. Ellrrhuck were partners, aud
praVri-tnrs n the blacksmith
Shop where q; c-car.yi. To-
-ptly. they ~Icut the whole or a
/ great gaTt o.! lat night in drinking.
rhpy returned 60 their shop.
under the inf fence Of liquor.
between seven and eight O'Clock
this morning. aud shortly before
then hal bceu in saloon together.
. While in the saloon. and al-o after
they went into the shop Gr10 led the
. conversation about suicide. talked Il
different methods Of spli-lcstHc-
ton. ami asked E.llur,ctz which he
considered the best and quickest.
Eilyrucck said lac thought prIssic
acid would produce death the quick
ct. Thea There was talk about
ll!vrbrch's Z ing 10 drug
store aud getting some puu.-
-ir acid, AMI both taking ID.
tsu1 told him tU get aulauum ].
he cguli not get pruS>ic acid. ElleT-
Hacf gave Coco q understand that
lg WuU-I UusrIrr ore az other. hllt
states that IL Was drunken talk on
both sides, % Il he dill not believe
nor realize that Gr00 actually con-
tempil;ei se.f-dcstructi0n. anI that
me- Ellerirck, Intended b. 70 % q .
drug II rc and procure s1mrtiiuE /.
that would make GrJo sick. hy way F.
a! a practical joke.
This conversation continued until /
a few minutes past 10 O'Clock. Tie F.
only lersoHs in the shop were the I
two TaItugrS, Lut the hack GUu-. "a I
vile opening, was ajar. allow ing .
persons outside l. see within il. .
Suddenly EIleIhcck heari the II I
pG-, VI a pistol. ami looking towards .
lia -lrat where ErHD WAS Standing. /
saw him fili. his heal iying almost I
outside the rear entrance.
Young GrB0 hal shot himself ia
the heal with "A revolver, and as he /
tvil the weapon Dropped between his
feet The bail entered the right
temple f1~sa on the border line he
tween the frontal and partial bones.
IL hal evidently detected and
passed under the TOP 81 the skull.
uutTeen il ami the brain, and, tax
IuE a course on tine LEFT side Of the
mead similar o. - track on the
right side, CAME Uut near the left
temple. rle frontal bone was lussc.
and could tee moved like the cap 81 .
the knee.
\ mla who was al work Ina the
rear 90 the shop stated that he wit
messed tlly act. Its stated. to0. that
a hoy who was behind tie shop also
-1y %. The shot was fired al ten
minutes lrt-i ten U'clncN, - nearly
g- could lee a~acr.aintd. some one
a once communicated with the
, ify Hall, ami several policemen
Nerr quirkly on the spot. Dr..
Marshall was SION summoned. and
ile opinion that death
w8> inevitable. Tie decreased was
iy-L tD await iae rBr1Hrr. 4 cover
II- was thrown over him. For
about forty minutes he bu5tnei
with some regularity hut much
difficulty. when respiration finally
STOPPED. the heart ceased tD it-tt.
ana the purlo-e OF seif-dvs,uIctigu
'Hrmgd when the brain was CrzlZesl
yIth alcohol, was r'u~Im mated.
From tGc time the shot was fired.
however, tine young man was in
sensible tB Tuin. From the CONVEX
,ltiJu related Tor Nr. Ellcrncck. IL
that Mr.. GrDJ had tor
-Dt.ti some money for his share ia
.he lu~Iu-sS. auI was not saving a.,
enough ~ his earnings 10 meet his
liabilities. This was owing 10 hi~
u>tsm Of Occasionally getting out
yi.h company which induced him 3
20 drink, aud II worried him.
D-rcs>ed was. A. al'Bve stated
nineteen years old. lie was the
.Hu uf parents who have heyn long
Identified with the community. +.
yerc, ia fact, PIONEERS iE this cay,
.uI have always heeu mu-I r=-
ie,tcl. They are Isaac AMI Mary
Iaur Whitney ETpp, q the Ninth
Wand, and "a host of friends and
1cl5tivpS Will Cuudole with them la
heir terrible misfortune.
Word OF the occurrence was sent 10
,u, II Mr.. Gr5D'- brothers, Tor him
70 break the terrible urTs h. thr
mother, who j. pr1-t=dtci with
grief. The father has MT learned u .
shat has taken place, a. he l. ia
Bear Lake, having gone with two
lauEntrTs, with the excursion 10
Undertaken Joseph ". Taylor
uaS ,har-c II the remains, and
'BT1n,r Taylor viii mold an in
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