CLARK NV Archives Obituaries.....[UNKNOWN 1923]
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 LAS VEGAS AGE - 3/8/1924

STRANGE SUICIDE IS FOUND BY INDIAN BOY

Body Found on Desert Without Means of Identification - Dead 
Six Months

Tuesday morning an Indian boy found the body of a dead man 
in a clump of mesquite bushes about four miles from Las Vegas 
and three-quarters of a mile from the route of the old Moapa road.

Judge Lillis was notified and held a coroner's inquest.  An 
examination of the body disclosed a strange and unusual case.  
The man had evidently sought out the secluded spot and carefully 
made plans to end his life.

First, it appears, he removed from his clothing and effects everything 
which might lead to identification.  The only possible clue to his 
identity remaining on the body was a handkerchief bearing in one 
corner the initials "R.E.L."

He removed his clothing and effects from a suit case he had been 
carrying, placed his shirts in the bottom of the suitcase and saturated 
them with chloroform.  Then he wrapped another shirt also saturated 
with chloroform about his face and laid down with his face in the suit 
case.  Then he placed his cot over his head to keep in the deadly fumes 
and quietly passed out of this life.

Coroner Lillis had the body removed to this city and the unknown was 
buried in the potter's field Thursday.  The verdict of the coroner's jury was suicide.

The coroner's jury was composed of Frank Waite, Frank Duncan and W. I. Roberts.