Show SAYS ALDEN ONCE FEIGNED SUICIDE i I FEINE SUCIE Victim of California Thugs Mourned as Dead Long Ago According to advices from the chief of police of Portland Me Harry Alden for formerly formerly formerly merly of Salt Sal Lake who was killed by b thugs on a railroad leading out of Cuca Cuc monga Cal Cat last fall faU and whose body bo was recently r nty identified through particles of clothing feigned suicide in the Merri Merrimac Merrimac mac river near Nashua N H shortly shorty before coming west seven sven years ears ago Alden had worked for druggists in New Hampshire when he suddenly disappeared The search sarch revealed his clothing on the banks of the Merrimac and newspapers of New England lamented the unfortunate unfortunate unfortunate nate death of the young oung drug salesman Years afterward he appeared in the west and was recognized by a relative It I is the claim of the tile Portland chief that he had gone under the name of Chisholm in some parts of the west changing it i to Alden when his relatives found out that he was alive alve I While in Salt Sait Lake Alden worked as a salesman for a wholesale druggist in this city ci and was one of the most active mem members hers bers of the th Y M C A He left lef Salt Sal Lake to accept a similar position in Berkeley Berkele Cal Cat but later became sales salesman sleman salesman man for a Baltimore firm of wholesale druggists and was taking his initial trip when he was killed |