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Show BODY FOUND PIT OF GRAVEL H Salt Lake. Jan. 2. Bearing no marks or. evidence of robbery, the H ? m. A" McGrcBor. a sales agent H lor tne Daynes-Beebe Music compan, H of this city, was discovered in tho B gravel pit at Thirteenth avenue and H H street late yesterday afternoon by G. H Gillman. H Beside the body lav an empty wills- H ky glass, and in the pockets of Ihe H dead man's clothing were found two ,H bottles of liquor, one of which had 'H been about half emptied. Th0 liquor H that had been used appeared to have H some foreign substanco In it and 1 the city health commissioner who ex- H nmlned the body is of the opinion that H the liquor contains laudanum or mor- H phlne, and that this caused the death H of McGregor. The police are of the H opinion that McGregor, while Intoxi H catcd, wandered into the pit and froze H to H Whether or not it was poison In the fl liquor taken by McGregor Hvith sul- -H cidal Intent that caused his (death, or I H whether he died from exposure, will '1 be determined through an nirtopsv to ;H bo held today under the direction of H Coroner Stanley A. Hanks. H Money Intact. H When McGregor's "body was fofjnd. H the police were notllled, and officers H made an Investigation Fifteen doK v H lars. in three gold pieces, were lliun H on tho body, two of the coins bcirjg lo-rl Xateil- In his shoes andvone,Jti rjjijf I H pocket. "TncJosti'd 'xC "envelopev from j H the Semloh hotel. Some silvtr v,is H In his trousers pockets, and there was IH a check book In a coat pocketfthow- JH Ing the owner to havo a deposllof. G5 jH In Walker Brothers' bank. , H |