Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-27
p J, Ryan Of Anaconda Ends His
Life at Big Hotel.
FOUND DEAD IN BATH ROOM.
Rsmsins Taken 10 the uorgue where
They were viewed BY JustIee
Dsua r. smItb.

y 4 J. Ryan OF Anaconda was found
dead in bathroom at the Knutsford
hotel this morning on the floor was a
revolver with which the death wound
had been inflicted II was very evi-
IDENTIFY suicide.
Ryan same 20 the hotel yesterday
morning at o'clock and registered. lie
was SHOWN up 10 his room. and re-
NAMED there Tor over an hour. When
ne came down stairs again. he notified
the cierk that he wanted 10 pay his bin
IN advance.
nave no luggage" he explained,
ana l want Co pay you now
| me clerk answered that he wasn't
| AFRAID that the Montana visitor would
| run away and that Il would be al,
flsat Tor Ryan 20 pay when ne was
through Ryan insisted that he nav
before be remained any longer, but the
CLERK assured him that It was not Gus
tomary
That was the last seen Of cyan until
this morning when he was found dead
m the bathroom
The details OF the sad event are as
follows. Ryan arrived In the morning. |
and registered al thu Knutsford Of |
terins TO pay In advance Tor his board |
as he had no baggage. taking a hand |
inl OF gold from his pocket at the time
Chiet Clerk Henshaw courteously told |
Mr.. Ryan he had no fears and was
perfectly willing TO trust him. After go.
ing TO his room and taking late
oteaNast, That was the last seen OF
we man until o'clock In the evening.
wheh ne came In, called for his key
anu went 70 his room which mad bath
room connected.
About noon today one of the cham
hermaids, binding the door locked ON
the inside, gained entrance through the
side door OF no adjoining room and
to her surprise found the bed had moi
been disturbed, and on trying the bath
room door found II Obs.fucted. she |
felt alarmed, and calling In another
chamDermaid, the latter climbed up on
q chair to look through the transome,
ana saw a human figure PROSTATE be-
low. Chlef Clerk Henshaw was I'M
mediaiely called, ard the bath room
luOr was forced open. There. partly {
)n the chair and partly on the floor. was
Ryan, black IN the face, and with his
lie blood over the floor The man ha1
never undressed on going to hla room. |
ana arr Y making w his mind what 10 I
TO- toek a chair into the bath room {
planted II against the door. ana sitting !
Town. shot himself through the right \
temple with .3S Smith a Wesson re-
folver Death was instantaneous. ana
ne upper half OF his BODY fell over .
lpon the floor whore his llfe's =
hood welled away. his legs remaining :
'artly on the chair and partly IN the !,
mr. The close air Of the bath room |,
'feyented the discharge Of the gun from :
'eing heard, and discovery did not oc. !
'ur until 10 hours or more after death !
Ihe race was black from the blood t,
ushing there from the rest OF the body !
ma the hair around the temple was (,
burned showing that the muzzle of the
'un had been placed close TO the mans
read, search of the room and OF the i,
ead mans clothes failed to reveal any
ote or suggestion explaining the deed. a
re nad about 1850 mostly gold in his .
ockets. ana memorandum hook con
aiming undecipherable data and from
men neither Undertaken Evans or n
Justice Dana Smith could make out ~
nythlng only one chamber OF the re- al
over mad been discharged, but there r.
as a whole boz OF cartridges I'm the a,
ead mans possession, The remains ~
ere taken al once TO Evans tnorgue n,
no the mayor OF Anaconda was mott.
ed Justice Dana Smith. after lnvestl. N
alton, did not consider an lnnuest A.
Pcessafy. Ryan was apparently Is y.
ears old. and Of light and sandy ~
lnpiexion, with moustache, bur other. ~
Use eleanly shayen face. Further than y,
al ne registered frorl Anaconda. moth. ~,
& was known OF him ~