Show HAMBLIN DEATH BEING PROBED police officers aro are investigating dinv inv tho the circumstanced circumstance i regarding the death of joseph roslon rock flock lIam blix of kanab author of tile tho play jacob hamblen recently well received in southern utah and elsewhere mr air hamblen died while undergoing at an operation in his homo hoine town of kanab february 9 ills his death Is attributed to sull skull in juries sustained ped by mr hamblen in salt lako lake about two weeks ago while the attention of the salt lalio lake police was called to the fhe circumstances tho the affair so tar far they hive been unable to reach any corroborated ro rb explanation of the incident thel dent tile the matter was first presented to lieutenant D 11 II clayton of the po lice department by reber C hicks flicks director of the state securities commission and a brother of mrs airs haine lh according to mr mr elamb ita had come to salt lake that mrs airs liam blin might stay tor for a time with tire mrs susannah of raymond alberta canada and the tha party was at a i local hotel the afternoon of monday january 24 mr air hamblen went out to r ish rish a achl cedik 4 k say bay ing ahat hat lie ho proposed to return foon boon and diat all might go to a theatre elle did not return that night KIlt and when ills hla son aon in ln law J AT of montpelier Mont idaho wont went to seek mr air camblin the next morning tho the ninn mail was found in front of the american inn hotel 42 haht F first arst south street tile proprietor of tho the hotel was near and lator later mr air hamblen was waa understood to have sald that tho cotol man was waa worried because mr air hamblen app appeared oared ill mr air iricks told tile the police mr air took mr air hamblen to ho room where mrs airs numb lilt a and nt I 1 relatives were stopping not long lifter after mr developed hemorrhages and became sick he tallied talked at times according to mr air alicks of someone lleone having lilt him but appeared 0 d to bo be dazed and not to bo be able to recall tho the circumstances clearly ier mr automobile the police have developed love loped hall had boon been in front of tho the american inn all night and mr later made explanation of this to 0 o the police mr apparently partially reco recovered varod and after receiving medical attention here was taken by mrs to ills hla home there the local physician dr norris was called in ile ho immediately th case by saeng that mr air was suffering from a blow on oil tho the skull thild th id diagnosis was avas confirmed by dr macfarlane Mac farlano of cedor cedmir city and mr air condition became such tha an operation oper aIon ans doomed ne cosgary cos sary ile ho novel never rallied from it the opi operation ratton however alov the correctness of tile no theory tl ti at mr hamblin had loen been suffering a appah apparently antly inflicted by a blunt instrument at tho b aw s of the skull S piccolo proprietor 0 01 tho the aier american inn told tho the tribune sunday that mr hamblen had come to him to got n chock for 80 cashed there was waa not a large amount in the till mr air piccolo says and lie ho cavo mr hamblin half the io amount and told him to return in the morning for to the balance mr air piccolo says Ila hamblen loft left the alio hotel and lid did not return uell near noon the nea day ihm ho he was vaa given the remainder of the money mr air at that time hall had ridden away in an automobile which it lj ij presumed was arvon by mr air burgoyne mr air according to to all mr ra hacks cis hall had no mondy on oil him when lie he returned to ills room fun funeral rul services tor for mr air were held in tho the kanab meeting house hauae F february 12 and interment ln ternie t wll was in tile the annab kanab city cemetery mr air was born november 19 1879 the son of joseph and elsie flain hamblen blin ile ho was a grandson of jacob hamblen tile the noted pioneer and scout mr a graduate of tho the university of utah wrote tho the play jacob hamblen in lionor honor of lifs hla grandfather ile ho Is survived by ills his wife rose hicks his daughter mrs airs john hi AA burgoyne Burgo yno of montpelier Her ItI idalio alio and a boutier bru brt tier Vior neat hamblen of kanah salt lake Trib tribune tine |