Show PREACHERS PREACHER'S WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE Leaves Her Husband at Park Goes Home and Turns on Gas I Despondent because of ot tailing falling health Mrs Lillian Dean Allen Alien two thirty years ears old colored wife of or Rev Re John II Allen pastor of fir Calvary Calvar Baptist church committed suicide at her hom horn 59 Ninth I Eat East t street stroet yesterday after atter- noon She locked herself In a bathroom bathroom bath bath- room room and anti turned on the gas She left a message which is believed d to rull fully explain the deed This was enclosed In a scaled sealed envelope addressed to her moth mother r Mrs H. H T T. T Jones Jone 63 West rest Thirty fifth street New lork York ork It bore a n postage stamp and her lter husband husband hus hus- band ordered the thc letter mailed un un- un- un opened When hen Allen Alien enter entered d his his' home at 6 o'clock last Jast nh night ht he was waH attracted b by the odor o of gas s Throwing open the tho bathroom door ho saw the tho bod body of or his wife Stumbling out of ot his homo home to tho the front lawn he ho called for help Neighbors r summoned tho the poll police Ct Motorcycle Patrolman A A. C. C Husbands Dr H. H B. B Spra Sprague ue and Patrolman Patrolman- Thornton Jackson colored arrived anti and the tho body was removed to the tho mortuary of or Undertaker Eber W. W hallI HallI Hall I 1 went vent to Liberty park parle with Ith m my wife this noon noon said Allen llen Toward 3 o'clock she sho complained of oC not feeling well and said she would go home write some letters and prepare preparo dinner I es escorted es- es her to car and went back Into the tho park with members of or my m- congre congre- gation She had been despondent be because because because be- be cause of or poor health but that sho she should take h her r own mn lIfe comes as a complete surprise Mrs Allen Alien was born in Anaheim Cal Cat May 21 l 1880 Shortly after Allen was ordained they married at Sacramento Ca Cal About four tour years ears 1 ago 0 the they settled In Salt Lake where he became pastor of or the church Alien Alln n about a year ear ago went to Then he went to Butte Mont where shere he Ito took the pulpit at the Bethel Baptist church With his wife ho lie liter returned to Salt Lake L' Beside hr her husband she alto is survived by her mother Mrs Irs II T. T Jones of at New Not York and a stepfather H. H T. T Jones of or Cal A slater sister Mrs frs J. J V. V Scott lives at 1283 Pacific street San Francisco |