Show MURDER OR SUICIDE D SALT BALT LAKE STIRRED BY ER TRAGEDY UTH briding Endl of the life I lac of at john 11 circumstances Suit ct 11 ahr may ise cout fronted lif by tile the charge salt lake city april 20 Salt lalo la Is in the throes of an excitement batla can ed either cither by a n sensational al suicide or fin an atrocious murder john 11 hamilt hamilton a young man of good standing jg is th i e victim tho the inquest has not yet been hili finished shed but the circumstances ara gi g i that it may find either cither that hamilton k killed himself or that he was murdered 1 in n the latter event the verdict will pro bably be that he be met inott death nt at the handa of his wife from whom lie he had 1 lived apart since 6 i find front from whom when tie he was seeking see kinga a divorce 1 I he cause of their domestic infelicity was alle red e a criminal intimacy of mrs irs hamilton with W 1 pavey a woodenware dealer there is in c existence it a written confession of such intimacy purported mohave to have baen baell written and si signed ened ly hy mrs hamilton and its genuineness I 1 n attested att esteil by a sister of the dead man mall who claims to have been present when the document was signed sirs mrs hamilton denies her guilt alleging that thi th confession was wrung from her under duress pavey also strongly denies the accusation but other circumstances circumstance tend to confirm it in either event john II 11 hamilton lies dead at the morgue with a bullet bodein hole in his heart ho called on his m wife at the house of her sister mrs thomas P seddon at west first south street by appointment to talk over their troubles preliminary to instituting sti divorce proceedings ile he never left the yard alive and the theman man berof his death is only judged by y circumstances cum stances public opinion being divided between suicide and murder mrs hamilton says the dead man had just taken leave of her and aa he did so threatened to do something or which she would be sorry she closed the door and almost immediately heard beard a shot she heard no more than one although others testified dat six shots in all were fired one ball in the fence and one in front of the houtie house having been found when she came out of the house she found several persons in the yard surrounding rounding bur hamilton s body several persons claim to have seen a man standing around the house prior to the tha shooting fig and two testified to having seen him run away after the shots had beert fired others testify to having seen a woman run into the seddon house after the shooting while a young hoy boy says he be saw a man fire the shots froman from an alley next the sudden house the police are worl nT hard bard on on the case and expect a solution soon hamilton Han silton was a driver in the employ of the troy laundry while sirs mrs hamilton was a bookbinder arid and since the trouble had been working tor for kelly co |