The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-28
DIES BELIEVING
LOVE WAS LOST
N. P. La Plant Takes Life When
Happiness Is Near.
WIFE WILL ARRIVE TODAY
SUICIDE ENDS LAST HOPE OF
RECONCILIATION.

IAI HILE the woman he loved was
wv coming TO him. seeking to with
draw the divorce proceedings
which she had instituted Napoleon 1t
Plant a brickmason. who resided at
252 South West Temple street commit
ted suicide yesterday morning by tax
ing a sixteenth Of an ounce of strych-
nine The man was crazed with grief
believing that his wife was to be his
no longer. Pressed closely to his heart
was found a picture of his young wife
and by the bed was discovered a note
TO her with instructions written upaa
IL that il be delivered to her and rot
opened by anyone else His dead Sody
was not discovered until shortly after
noon, when the chambernlaid went to
the room to set it in ords~ fox the
night.
Besides the note to his VIE vtps an
other one discovered near the bed. It
ran as follows: IT belong TO the Wood
men OF the World, camp No. 80, Flor
ence, Colo.
y. Z. Plant I give my wife all my
belongings. such as trunk. dra,yinlS
table, grip and drawing board. and all
that Is in my trunk Please lot NY
wife know this at once by wire. Her
address is Mrs. Bessie LaPlanr. 92l Ma
con avenue, Canyon City. Colo"
\ tootnote said: William ~ Lee,
AZ ID. r Walker block, knows about
ali my troubles
Wife Was Reconciled-
LaPlant was a bricl1mason by trade.
lie Was lately employed at the srlel-
tiers in Murray building ovens he was
not man of means, but as Ear as can
be learned was a sober, Industrious
citizen OF good habits. He was % years
Of age. a member Of the Woodrlen OF
the World. and carried besides
the Insurance in that brother
hood some Insurance in one OF
the old line companies. His wife. Who
was stopping with her father a. CAM
yon City. Colo. started for salt Lake
day or two ago it is understood. add
Will arrive in this city today. She rad
instituted divorce proceedings against
her husband some time ago. but was
gong 10 return to the man and live
with him. The divorce was scash- for
on the grounds of incOInratfbilftv IN
Plant adored her, and his affection was
IN part returned Had ne lived it is
possible that old differences. .co-lld have
been forgotten and that many years OF
happy life could have followed.
Had Threatened Suicide.
Attorney w A Lee in speaking or the
couple last night said: 7 was .,ftoruf.x-l
Tor Mrs LaPiant in her divorce pro-
ceedings and believe tnat she loved
her husband dearly although She
L.
1 learned the true state of- affairs II
advised both of them to make I'D anal
forget all their OLD troubles -
ABOUT succeeded in my 3edoenl. ;zys==-7
when LaPlant ended mis- life. His
was on her way to salt Lake al1S-
doubt we would have withdrawn 80
suit. The wife was about q wears old
L should say and a remarkably Urett.-
woman She Was somewhat superior
to her husband and I think that maybe
ne felt this Besides he Was =. Roman
Catholic with all the hatred for tf-
Vorce which that faith possesses. Hel
tolo me once when he came to the office
that his father had disoWned him be-
cause he had given up his religion Tor
his wife No doubt that preyed upon
his mind The couple had lived in this
city Tor about two years L should saw
L always thought him good. straight.
honest man. I have no doubt at all
but that the trouble between him and
his wife could have been fixed up. In
Plant came to my office a few days ago
and told me that if he could not again
i've with his wife that he would take
his life. / talked him out of il then.
as I thought. After that il seems that
he wrote a letter to his father-in-law
explaining himself and got. what
seemed to him an ugly letter in re-
turn. That, no doubt. took all the
courage out Of him and had something
TO DO with his taking his life
LaPlantS body was taken to O'Don-
nelIs undertaking parlors and will re-
main there until his wife arrives Cor
oner Dana T. Smith viewed the remains
and said that no autopsy would be
necessary A message was sent last
night to his brother who Is; living I'm
Los Angeles, Cal. His home was in
Florence. Colo, where his father and
mother at present reside