Show WI W A NELDEN ENDS LIFE BY MEANS OF BULLET Illness and Financial Troubles lead Prominent Business Man to Commit Suicide Tragedy Follows His Deposition from Management of th Wholesale Drug Comp Company ny Bearing His Name Death is Instantaneous I i t ic 1 4 k r I w A NELDEN Co CoW t I A N one ones or i the best W V I know bu busIne men in iii Salt Lake Ike former resIdent of the club and the board of edu I n shot hot bl lr through the h bend tl ith a the attic f n nh l beautiful home on the corl r ot of Fir South and aid Twelfth Eu East t streets ju just t noon yesterday hell the loudy WIM found by u a member of oC the f a n i y two hours hourt later everything aUd l that death 1111 been us The rhe of the fatal shot had the muzzle of oC the revolver In kite amI pulled the trigger The Tho but bul bult 3 t passEd through the brain in an up upward ward rd direction and lodged 8 the lid of the skull Itt at the tot tOI or of the 1 The bod body was wa found In a pool f blood face downward the re ret t ivr n was d in the thc lifeless after the finding of the Dr J T e C who ho had Mr Nelden for some was called In After Arter t 11 examInation of the bod body he an that deett had followed almost b after the shot and that the dim hal had not had art an instAnts con conF F after pulling the trigger i r net Dane Dana T Smith and Sergeant of tL Ii f C J J Roberts were also called jIL Smith announced that no would be necessary as the theau C au aue of death was as plain Shock to the Family The feelings or of the members of the family can call only be imagined when the In made de Mrs Net c left her home at 11 to look some In th PIty ity She Mr Ir Nelden NeIden in his ro roOm m too m Ill to to business At about 1 th maid prepared lunch and took It to the sick mans room He was not there ind the alarm was at once given A earh was wae throughout the house Finally nally the thc search extended to the thc at attie tit tie and there the bod body was found Mrs I ellen had reached home in the mean meantime time It became the duty of Paul the ld t son NOn to tell teU lila his mother of the calamity that had fallen upon the fain fam Ins iv The natural supposition is that Mr Ir N had ascended to the attic and hot liot himself as soon as he be knew that llis 3 i wife was absent from the house bouse o far as he left no statement or r any an kind to explain his act How His Troubles Began egan The financial troubles or of W Yo A Net l n began live five yrs ago Up to that 1 hE had been successful financially had built a fine home accumulated considerable property educated his children well and stood hi high h in the thea a in every way waP FIve years ago ngo he was Induced to launch into a ahme hEme for tor the generation or of light from Ilal at on oil It Is said he dropped lr this enterprise Following this thie he hea a 4 forced to dispose or of his interest in Nel Drug company compan to toft tot ft t Joseph Mo 10 men who had pren u h been Interested with him himI I or of his ability to recover his 3 ll st t ground Mr lr Nelden organized the thc they pw y A Nelden Drug company last May Ia and opened a place s on Main street Prominent in the company as were J E Cosgriff Joseph Young oung Herman Hill Hili and later L R Mr lr Nelden was the man hgr of the nOW new enterprise For months the manager battled against adverse Personal financial entangle continued ill III health followed grew worse until Mr Nelden kias succeeded as manager by John J yesterday mornIng and death the tragedY before noon His Life Insurance Mr Ir Nelden was WIS alwa always s a believer In n lip life insurance It was stated yes that rhe he carried policies between and but butI butas I as R a matter of fact at the time of his hia he be was insured for only Fr FO far as could be definitely ascer d or Of that amount was written b by the Equitable Lire Life Assur companY of New York by r t p Mutual Life Insurance company of New York In another eastern marn and in thE K IC of P rank The policy of the Mutual I LIfe Insurance company ma tired time lime ago but Mr lr Nelden elden to let the company hold it of o arc protected end ond cannot be for an any liabilities he may muy have J t in his bust busl noes Am AI insurance man sid asid last night that Mr Nelden had carried carded other pot pol policies ides for various arious m during his lUs life but that he be hud collected them as fast as they l l with the exception tion if df te e one In the Mutual Lift LIf of New York It was his opinion that the had at least in policies since he took out the first one and had never allowed one to Native of New Jersey Mr Nelden was i a native of Mon lon Montague tague Sussex county N New w Jersey where he was born bom in When he was i years cars old famil family removed to Newton In the same state where he spent the ensuing seven seen years ears or of his ilis life John H N his father was a Prosperous farmer and fol followed followed lowed that vocation until he decided to engage in the lumber and coat coal bust bus i ine ne noes s which he conducted with suc Ce ceas B until his death In D Dhen hen young oung Nelden b had d the age or of 12 years Jears his mother Mrs Sarah Nelden sent him to the Tern Tem Temple pIe Hill academy at Jenesee Genesee N Y where he took a special course in chemistry in addition to the regular StUdIOS His mother died three years later and he returned to Newton where he obtained employment in a drug Store and remained po position for the ne neet It five years At the age or of 20 years he went to Philips burg N J where he became the pro proprietor proprietor of a drug store which he con conducted conducted ducted for many years Modest Start in Salt Lake LakeIn In Mr 11 Nelden came to Utah and located in Salt Lake Cit City securing em employment as a clerk in the drug house ot of Moore Allen Co Five years later loter he established the firm of Roberts Nelden wholesale and retail druggists and for several years the they enjoyed a lucrative trade In 1892 1592 Mr Nelden I purchased his partners Interest in the firm disposed or of the tho retail business and thereafter confined his operations wholly to wholesale lines In 1893 1393 he established the Drug Drub company compan and was elected resident president of the company compan The organization was sold MId to Edward C Smith of S1 Sh Joseph JosephIc Mc Ic aid others in 1904 When arrange arrangements arrangements ments for tor the sale were made it was found that Mr lr Nelden was financiallY embarrassed During the time he was connected with the company compan he lost not less than in business I He backed a company or organized to exploit a wonderful light produced from kerosene oil The tight light failed to be a financial success After his interests were sold out in Inthe the company compan he start started started I ed the V A Nelden Drug company last May la p and Interested several of his friends In It He was elected president I and or of the company at the time It was incorporated His health became worse however and Wednes I I Iday day dap he was ca replaced as manager of th the com company pan b by J J Judson Mr Nelden married In iii Pennsylvania I Miss SarAh O 0 Stern Stem daughter of Pro Professor Professor fessor B F Stem a prominent educator educator tor in eastern Pennsylvania His fam family ily consisted of his wife his sons Paul Pauland Pauland and Ralph and one daughter Mrs Irs Je Jerome Jerome rome Q 0 Cross wife of the principal of the Wasatch school in this city In I political life Mr lr Nelden was a firm believer in the principles of the Republican party but owing Ito to the confining nature of his duties he had never participated actively In polities politics nor had he over ever held public ex except except that ot of president or of the thc board or of education He was president of the Salt Sail Lake ch or of comm for several years und and was one of the corn com committee appointed by the governor when the pioneer jubilee was held here In 1897 lie He was also president or of the Salt Palace association In social life lIe lie he was a member ot of the Knights or of Pythias and of the Alt Alta club and had be been n president of the Commercial club ot of Salt Lake and third vice ice president of the National Whole Wholesale sale Druggists association The funeral wm will be held privately at 8 3 Saturday afternoon at hL his late residence 1172 East South street |