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Show I JEALOUSY RESPONSIBLE FOB 10001 DOUBLE TRAGEDY Member of Prominent Salt Lake Family Fam-ily Kills His Wife and Then Ends His Ow,n Life. Salt Lake City. Jan I. Morris, formerly for-merly proprietor of a hotel in Reno, Nevada, and a member of one of the most prominent families of Salt Lake, shot and instantly killed his wife, in their room in a hotel in this city at 7:45 p, m. Saturday, and a moment later placed the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth and fired. Morris lived for three hours, but never regained consciousness. The direct cause of the murder and suicide is not known, but Mr. and Mrs. Morris, it is said, have never lived happily together, and jealousy of his wife is believed to have caused Morris to commit the terrible crime. Mrs. Morris was divorced from Wil-lard Wil-lard Eean on August 3, 1908, and married mar-ried Morris in Reno, it. is said, some time later. It w-as Morris, it is alleged, al-leged, who brought about the trouble between Bean and his wife, and it was through him that Bean secured a divorce di-vorce from her. She was married to Mr. Bean in 1S99, and by him had two children, both of whom were committed commit-ted to the custody of the father at the time of the "divorce. The woman was formerly Gussie D. Felts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Felts, of Eureka, Cal. |