The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-19
Japanese Laborer Ends Life
After Making Futile Attempt
to Hang Himself.
WAS PROBABLY DERANGED
BY HEAVY DRINKING
Believed to Leave Widow and
Sister in Native Land; He
Worked at Garfield.

Failing in an attempt 10 hang himself
with a fragment of suspendcr. Sahacn'
lIyeno. a Japanese laporer. aged about 3t
years. cut his throat with razor ana
died shortly afterwards. last night at $50
o'clock AT Il Japanese rooming house 80
aSI West First South street. of which
Thomas Hara is proprietor
II is believed by Japanese roomers IN
tho house that Jycno WAS temporarily
dcranged when he took his HE and no
other reason for the act can be assignee.
Uyeno had been acting In. a peculiar ::iah i,
ner and during most or Monday hlsnt M hsii
spent the time In weeping ana WrinEinS
his hands The tragedy last night was
not anticipated
Dying Man La Observed
knowledge of the act came III shastly
fashion. Harn saw Uyeno run down
stairs two steps at tune with ,sn gasn
two ;nches long In his throat ana Dioo5
pumping Into his face from The severed
wound with the razor lyeno ran out oil
his room down the hail. down stairs 10
the front door, then back into the corr .
dor where he fel upon the iioor ana dlco
In less than minute afterwards,
He had inuictcd the wound while upon
his bed as evidenced by a pool of blood
on the bcdcovcrs. Also upon the bed wns
found piece Of suspcnder which ,,a had
been cut from pair of bib overa!ls. rms
had been made into n loop and ON tic
otl,er end was tied a towel The Japa.
nese had removed the electric light cora
in the room and tied the towel TO a sas
pipe which protrudcd about IA foot from
The ceiling. 1t was evident that he had
attempted to hang himself from the gas
pipe With the aid Of this makeshift con,
irivance but that th- towel mad refused
10 hold, or was not firmly enough oed
10 the pipe and had given away when
ne placed his head I'm the moose and al
lowed him To fall TO the bed
Determined to Die.
Il is probable that he then took up the
razor ard accomplished his design. When
utes iatcr he was dead. Tie body was
taken tc the undertaking establishment
OF E C O'Donneli. ne coroner VIII
na4ke an investigation today. W.. =, Sal,
Lake from Garfield where since May he
has been working for the Garfield Water
company. and went 10 the rooning house
in which he took mis- NE; He did not
been In this country, more than siT
rncnths. In Japan he icaYes widow and
Il sister. lie Is not generally known
among the japanese OF Salt Lake. c..
kaneEo. employed AS q clerk at Japa-
DoSc merchandise store nt 81 Richard
street said last night shat he had worked
with ryeno at Garfield since the latter
came there more than TWO months ago.
He said that ryeno had no relations In
this country and that ne did not know
what part OF Japan he was from
Kancko said that the dead man was a
heavy drihker and that lie and others
had noticed MIN At times when they be-
l!cvcd he was dcranged.
Upon the body was only cents. D
cent piece and one l-ce7t piece, In his
bundle Of bedding nothing was found to
connec: him with anyone In Japan except
d picture OF TWO japanese women. sup
posed to be his wife and sister