Show Salt Satt Laker Is Seattle Suicide TillS THIS is Henry Sturgeon former Salt Lake hotel clerk who ended J his life in Seattle Friday night after writing his Salt Lal Lake e friends about his intended act The Tho girl is Mrs Airs Mary Sturgeon Caldwell who once claimed Sturgeon for her father but who never definitely proved the identity Sturgeon con was noted eccentricities while living here SZ t 4 1 r p pr 1 r 1 r n fr i t I 11 c 1 I I u uj j 9 I I 4 f r i Two TO Weeks Ago He Wrote Friend Here Telling of Intentions WHILE 7 HILE Salt Lakers here anticipated Y the tho suicide of or Henr Henry Sturgeon old 70 resident of or Seattle former resident of ot this city and vainly at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to locate him to dissuade him from his intention n ho he fired a fatal atal shot through his brain night before last in ina ina a a. hotel in the tho northwestern city Less than two weeks ago the man who killed himself wrote to Dr F F. FIa Manon Marlon Ma Ma- non Kolling woman chiropractor whose whoso offices are 9 Constitution building as follows Seattle Feb 23 Dear 23 Dear Friend Hope you OU are aro prospering prospering- and happy So good good- bye hye Remember mo mc to tho the little ones Yours respectfully respectful HENRY STURGEON Made U Threats While hUe Here Dr rightly interpreted the mean meaning InS InS' of ot Sturgeons Sturgeon's letter for last summer when he ho worked at household duties in her homo borne at 31 1 Twelfth East street sho she heard beard him complain that his life lire was useless as he ho threatened to 1 kill himself She believes her bel persuasion persuasion persuasion per per- per per- suasion at that time prevented him from carrying carryIng- out his intention then The little ones referred to In Sturgeons Sturgeon's Sturgeons Sturgeon's geons geon's letter lotter aro are Dr Kellings Kelling's children to to whom Sturgeon was devoted Keen Interest both here and in SeattIe Seattie Seattle Seat Seat- tIe tle centers on tho the arrival of or another letter to Dr Kelling which the dead deadman deadman deadman man penned a few minutes before firing the shot through his head bead Special arrangements ar ar- ar with the Salt SaIt Lake postoffice post- post of office fco have been made male for the letter to tobe tobo tobo bo be delivered immediately Then Sturgeons Sturgeon's Sturgeons Sturgeon's SLur SLur- geons geon's last thoughts written as ho braced himself for tho the plunge into eternity will sill become known The letter letter let let- ter was found in Sturgeons Sturgeon's room in Seattle and was mailed by the coroner dispatches from that city say Noted for tor At one time Henry Sturgeon was clerk at the tho Monroe hotel 6 62 Richards street Even then he was given to pe peculiarities pe- pe pe-I pe often taking about his family famil sometimes saying saIng ho he had two I and at other times three children One Ono of or his sons lives In Murdock Kan Itan It Is said Another evidence of ot his eccentricity was noted In Seattle when ho paid for his own cremation before shooting himself Last summer Sturgeon burst Into the limelight of or Salt Lake publicity through the tho claim of a Utah woman Sirs rs Mary Iary Sturgeon eon Caldwell that ho he was her father but the claim was not established to Sturgeons Sturgeon's satisfaction and tho the girl retired without succeeding in her quest for a parent |