Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-04
Jack Richardson Attempts to End
His Life This Afternoon.
HIS AGED MOTHERS GRIEF.
Another chapter In tho life Of the
Young barber who Has Gained
Much Notsricty.

n, may not sound nice from a moth
or, but I think tha, tho be4t thing for
Jack 90 DO ls Co die.' ulld aged. Wild
owed Mre. J. 3. Rlahardslu at 1880 thi.
afternoon ns she stood wrInrinr nor
hnnds ln tho little htchrn 90 hnr home
ut $50 stft. Third south.
Stretched uuDn the naor iu the bod
room lny hef only son. EDWARD j Rich-
nrdHon, while over bio writing form
hcnt Doctors 0eH0y and nears. who
were working over fhaIf rubioct aud
Swing him nm injection of nnu morphine
10 order % c0uutoraot tho onecta of a
dove g cnruuIlc acid that Boz had awai.
lowed 900 bib drunken mood Co terminate
Jack Richardron. Inv barber. o. a we'll
known nFure around Salt lake city
and has appeared before the public ir
various roles during thr Tact TOW
months since KID" Dumy broke his
Jaw ln hrawi For % time nlchari-
aon dropped from notorlcty TO lator hob
up in cnnvnlerCent state and pocket
rhEnrn that were ioft around carclcssiy
Zoo blrhHrH rhuuH % this city. Iich-
lrdaun was arrested Cor this unenae.
but wnH never tried owing % HE
strange actions when Zoo JAN be was
cont Co. the Insane HHyluW ut Provo.
but was discharged from that iurutu-
lion two months later Since that Pc
r.ui be- hla rHaldel with hif hged
mUther and worked 40 Div trade. For
me last Few days Do haa been indulring
ln one of ha periodical drinking sprcoa.
WANTED To SHOOT HER.
At II o'clock this morning he came
home ln drunken condition and told
biz mother that she was ull be- had in
tho world ana horEcd her 10 Fo across
Ia a7Im#N.H.HH ID
and borrow hls sun Do that be- could
shoot her and himself ln order that
they should die together. lliH mother
tried 90 qulet him ana nt last succeeded
IN setting him 20 lle down In the bed
room Thou she tuttercd around the
kitchen preparing tho frugal meal She
was arrested in her occupation hy hear
ing the SLING 90 "a bottle. Going tn
the bedroom door the old lady was
horroratrickrn 20 see hor son raising
a bottle ~ curbolic acid 90 hln lips and
IN the act OF drinking the contents. To
snatch the phinl out of her sons hand
was the work % an Instant Thou she
ran out into the iot na fast an her
feeble limbs would carry hnr aud her
cries soon brought Mrs flaieY and At
T. r. Tladnln. who arr neighhQra, 90 the
SCENE. Together they proppcd up the
mans head ana administered the white
81 an cFg 90 countcruct the effects ~
the poison. Then Dr. gulrcy was SUM
mourd hy telephone from McCnyf Drug
store in the vicinity and the police uotl-
fcd
Dr. Beers. who was ln the nelghbor-
hood. also hnHtUnpd 90 the house.
Aftar working ON their patient FOR
some time the medical men proasuno o.
him out uf danger iu fact they iosif-
mated the whole performance az "hn-
other OF iuchnrdfou's hlunH'
Mrs. richardson was grief stricken
over the uunlr IN course nf convcraa-
ton with the "Newa" this afternoon
the rrry-hnlrrd old lady said. NV poor
boy lH tho best lad there IL whIf he De-
sober but hH win drink. aud I um slime
ply dsiuE con- my feet because " hil
actions ! Hm too old Co DO much, but
! make little now and again selling
these medicines which I make up-and
thus manage Co live