The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-18
UNKNOWN MAN
TAKES HIS LIFE
KaySViIle Has Mystery Which
May Never Be
Solved.

KaySVlile. April IA mysterious sui
eide occurred in Kaysville last night, and
today a strangers body is lying at John
Barton's undertaking parlors, awaiting
Identification, with little probability that
the remains will be identified.
This morning William H. Blood found
the dead body of a man lying a short DIS
lance from the house A No. i wire
around the neck Of the suicide, with the
other end of the wire firmly attached to
a cog wheel of the machine as high up
as the man could reach. told the tale OF
self destruction The body was clad only
in underClothing and pair of cheap
brown plaid cotton trousers. 1t was EVIL
dent that death had occurred only a few
hours before the discovery of the body
which was still warm. Mr.. Blood at once
called Precinct Justice Q. A. Williams
and Sheriff Ware. who turned the body
over to Undertaken Barton. while they
undertook to solve the mystery of the sui
eide.
Mr.. Blood's residence is near the shore
of the lake and the condition of the cloth
ing, encrusted as il was with mud and
salt, indicated that the man had been out
in the shallow waters Of the lake. From
James w Webster it was learned that
on Thursday evening a man answering the
description of the suicide passed his place
going west toward the lake shore. Mr..
Webster watched the man until he was
far out on the barrens of the shore, and
LllEA lISl SllHL OF Ilffll- ne theory II
that during fit of despoudency of men
tai unbalance, the stranger had gone to
the lake with the intention OF ending his
life, but finding il difficult TO walk
through the sticky mud Of the lake shore
far enough to reach water in which he
could drown himself. he had abandoned
the effort and retraced his way to the
shore. If this is correct, it is probable
that he spent the whole of Thursday
night in the Shiny mud, a mile or two
from the shore. and then when morning
came he returned to a spot of grass near
the shore where ne seems to have re-
NAMED all of yesterday. At this point was
found his shirt and SuspendeTS, but the
coat and vest that he wore when he went
toward the lake have not been found.
They were probably discarded far out in
the lake. With them was lost all trace
Of the identity of the stranger.
About O'Clock this morning Mr.. Blood s
watch dog called attention to the pres
ence of some unusual visitor to the farm
house. but thinking it was merely some
animal that had caused the dog to bark,
renee doubtless fixes the time of the sui
eide.
The dead man was 50 years Of age. had
light hair. with slight inclination to bald
ness, light mustache- sharp features, high
cheek bones. wide mouth with a good set
of teeth. He was about five and a half
feet tall and very well built. weighing
about 10 pounds. He has the appearance
of being OF Scandinavian descent BY the
side of the body was a black fedora hat.
size ~, which had been bought at the
Fair. Bisbee, Ariz. Under the sweat
leather was a manufacturers label. with
the name IN. Wood" which the officers
think might have been the stranger
name, or the name of the maker of the
hat.
An inquest over the remains will be
held this evening. but there is not likely
TO be anything developed that would dis
close the identity of the unfortunate man.
Everything points to an unbalanced mind
as the cause of the suicide. Grim deter
minstion to die is shown in the careful
manner in which the wire had been ad-
justed around the neck so that il would
tighten as weight was thrown upon it.
There seems To have been no struggle
and the body was prone upon the ground.