The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-07
YOUNG M. G. GOUDY
ENDS HIS LIFE
Son of Prominent Denver Man
Commits Suicide.
TRIED TO HIDE IDENTITY
BODY Is FOUND IN SALT LAKE
BOOMING HOUSE.

III IIHOUT amy apparent reason Tor
w his rash deed, n. O.. GOudy, son
OF Frank Cloudy. a prominent
Denver politician, committed suicide
Tuesday night by taking stryehnine
and afteruar cutting his throat with
a piece Of broken glass. His body was
found in a room in the California
house 81 East First South, last night
Nothing was found Oh his person tna-
would give any clue to who he Was
but in his baggage at the Short Line
depot was found q communication
from which his identity was learned
His business address is 500 +. q C.
building. Denver. Colo. He had re-
Gently been employed by the Hercules
Power company at Logan as an elec-
tric.a..
Cloudy was last seen alive by MIS-
Thomas Rogers, prOprietTess OF the
California house. who gave him room
bout 10 O'Clock Tuesday night He
failed to rise Yesterday morning, ana
about o'clock in the afternoon MIS-.
Rogers raped on the door and tried
10 awaken him. she received no fepLy,
however. and after waiting until aDout
6 o'clock in the evening for him To set
up. became alarmed and made an III
Vest.Eat-cn-
Lying in Pool of Blood.
r
the room through the transOm ana
saw Goudy lying face downward on
the floor. his head i'm a pool OF blood.
Officer Henry Johnson was called and
broke down the door and entered the
room. Cloudy had evidently been dead
several hours, as his body was cold
and stiff on q stand liz the room was
found a bottle containing some strych-
nine. and the appearance OF the body
confirmed the theory OF strychnine poi
souing-
The room WIS torn up and The floor
Uttered with broken croCkcry- The an
pcaranCc of the room plainly told Of the
death STRUGGLES Of the man. and the no.
sition of the body showed that ne Cled
IN fearful agony A jagged gash about
three inches long was found i'm his throat
and lying close To his right hand was a
fragment of a water pitcher whose bloody
edge told The story.
man first took a dose Of strychnlne ana.
when In the agOntes Of commissions winch
accompany strychnine poisoning. cut his
throat IN desperate attemnt 20 end his
suffering. Coroner Frank r. Clark was
AT once notified ana p physician sum
1noned. The doctor said that there was
little doubt that the man died Tom pol
son but even If the strychnine had not
been sufficient 20 Kill him the wound
in his throat would have caused mis-
death.
Neighbor Heard Cries.
Mrs. Addie Cmnington. who rooms
ffnso r. No the raoEn .nccunlFd by
C4oudy. stated that about II o'clock she
was awakened by some one moaning IN
pain The cries came from No. ana
there was a hght i'm the room. The
means continued until after clock yes
terday morning. when they were hetEd
no more Il supposed IL was man In
commissions. bur I thought he was able
10 take care of himself,' she said
other persons in the house had heard
him during the night but no one iuvesti-
gated the cause of the trouble
The only theory that has been ad-
vanced so far as to- the reason for his
taking his Own life is that ne had been
drinking and had become desDcndenL
This theory is partially horne out IN the
fact that q pint flask half fun OF WHISKY
WIS found in the room. GOUdy had evil
denty endeavOred TO conceal his ldeutTN-
asrf here was NOT "a note or letter or any
kind found on his person. IN his pQcket
was found q duplicate baggage clrcH-
and investigation Dv Coroner Clark
showed that ne had left grip IN the
baggage room at The Short Line depot
.laSt Monday morning The grip con-
tanned a suit of working clothes and an
overcoat, besides some other personal eI-
fectS IN one of the pockets of the coax
was found a notice addressed to the
president Of the Alumni Association of
ATercerShurE academy. at NaEDeSboro.
Pa from which u was learned that h5
was "A graduate of that school and a
member of the 90 class HIS permanent
address was given as 300 F. d G. build
ing Denver. and his present address al
Logan. Utah. care of the Hercules Power
COMPANY
r 2 Fairbanks station superinte ndeut
Of the Logan Power company at Logan.
was a school friend Of Cloudy. lie l3e ntl-
fled the body last evening Mr. Fairbanks
attributes his suicide To acknowledgement
because he was not making the SUCCESS
ne hoped for HE hadn't bad hobit.
said Fairbanks "He was clean of me-
and thoroughly straight and good