Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-08
DESPONDENT JAP
HANGS HINSEL
Y. Naru1ni Commits Suicide in
Lonely Spot in City
Greek Canyon.
LEFT LETTERS FOR FAMILY.
One to HIS Wife Tells Of Unhappy
Wrdlock and Gives Her Per-
mission to- Marry ttsain.

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Despondent and weary of life under
the straln,.of- long continued unhappy
domestic relations and the llniassment
~ impending business difficulties. :
Narumi. aged B6 years and one OF SAT-
p Lakes most prominent japanese con
inercial men comitted suicide by h:thS
ing,presumably on the evening OF We'd
1iesday. The lifcless body vas fond
dangling at a ropes end from a tree
in City Creek yesterday afternoon by
two japanese boys, S. Martha IND ).
Yamazana.
That the suicide was the result Oh
cool meditation and even deliberation
was manifested in tho preparations
made for the ending of the life that
had lost all its hope, Letters ana notes
: found in the desk OF the self -murder-
ed after his disappearance had Great
q ed alarm and gave the clue TO not onlY
suicide but TO where his body might
4 be found. Leaving the written word
Is that his body would be, found in the
canyon Narumi had prepared for his
death in two ways. Beneath the tree
from which tho body hung, n new
+ revolver and an unopened box of cart
ridges were found. but evidently Inc
Il merchant had decided at the last mo-
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tree branches he had tied the hempe1l4
# roll, one end to a branch and the 9th
en- around his neck In a perfect hang
& mans moose, careful as TO the measure
ment OF the drop, and then jumped
from the branch.
Narumi was the proprietor. OF the
Salt Lake japanese Mercantile com
Il pafly. conducting the business at SO
Richards street. He had resided IN
y SALT Lake q number of years and was
prominent III the Japanese colony, be-
ing a director of tho Salt Lake Japan
ese association.
HE DISAPPEARS.
"Wednesday morning his wife and only
child lett for Sugar City, Idaho. and
concident with that he disappeared,
too. AS the day passed without MIS-
X appearance ut the office or store, tile
a employees OF the company became
alarmed and began n search. Yester-
day morning Martin and Yamazanl
Went to Narumis homeland there after
a. search found in d desk five letters
8 addressed the wife, and mother and.
other relatives Of the suicide. a slip
of paper contained the grim announce
ment that his body would be found
Z in City Creek canyon
Following this latter clue. n search
Z of the canyon resulted in the discovery
I ofSthe lifeless body hanging from the
tree yesterday afternoon shortly after
I a o'clock.
The letters written by Narumi befora
he went out TO his self-intlicted death
& and which We're translated today, were
practically ]hof the same tenor. They
spoke nf his unhappy married life, and
4 the pressure OF business difficulties.
In a letter addressed to his mother
+ in Japan, Narumi said that for4the past
4 six years he had lived unhappiy Wilh
his wife, and that his business was in
Z bad shape. He said that the difficulty
might be. avoided for two or three
months. but 1T is easy to die, ana 1
have determined that way. His an
i guish was reflected in the one pathetic
expression that 1t was hard only To
leave his baby and mother.
{ In his letter to his wife, Narumi re-
ferred to their unhappy union, and
ss counseled her to do nothing rash and
4 beseeched that she take good care OF
their baby. Following Il Japanese GUS.
tom he gave her free permission to rs
4 marry shouldSshe desire to do so.
The body under Instructions Of Acting
Coroner Stanley a.. Hanks was removed
" to Eber w. Hall's mortuary where it
is held pending the completion Of the
funeral arrangements. On account CT
the plain evidence OF suicide no Inquest
Will be held.