Show FRANK E DAVEY urn KILLS HIMSELF Former Salt Lake Man Be Becomes Becomes Becomes comes Despondent Over Many Troubles GREAT SHOCK TO FRIENDS DEAD MAN AND HIS WIFE HIGH HIGHLY HIGHlY LY LV ESTEEMED IN THIS Special to The Herald San Francisco March 2 Leaving his young wife on a sick bed from which she may never near ne cr rise Frank E Davoy Davey son of a prominent banker of or Siloam Springs Ark shot himself in the heart at 11 oco k this forenoon in Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land The deed was committed at Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land avenue avenue and Greenbank streets Davey had wandered in the streets and andover andover andover over the thc th hills of Piedmont for two hours before he determined to kill him himself himself himself self and aud was in the middle of the street in the fashionable Piedmont res residence resIdence residence section when he fired the fatal shot His d ath leaves an invalid wife wICe and a baby 10 months old for Out of Work and Despondent Davey had been b en employed as a clerk clerkin in the general storekeepers office of or the Southern Pacific company Of late I he has been out of work and his wife has been suffering from heart trouble Davey had become despondent and al although although although though he could have received finan than financial financial cial assistance from his father was too proud to ask for It Dr H E Huntington found Dae s 1 body at noon today lying in the road roadway roadway way wa At the side of the body bod was the pistol with which Davey Dacy had killed himself Dr D Huntington summoned Dr DrS DrS DrS S A Kendall marshal of Piedmont and watch was maintained over the body until the morgue could be noti notified notified fied fled The inquest will be held to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow Davey was 30 years ears of age and ac according according according cording to the officials of the Southern Pacific had been a faithful Shock May Kill Hie ie Wife It H is thought that the news new of her husbands tragic death will be too much for Mrs Irs Davey In her weakened condition to endure The have lived in a comfort comfortable comfortable comfortable able cottage In Moss avenue in Oak Oakland Oakland Oakland land and have moved with the most refined people of the city friends were shocked at his untimely end Although he had been noticeably gloomy he lie had never con eon confided confided to any anyone one that he contemplated The he wife has not yet been informed of Let her and tonight is said to be in a too critical condition to withstand with tand tho shock of such tin tinn Davey Dave had been b n told by her phy physic physician sic an that she could not live and th tho the I thought of losing her probably unhinged his mind and the suicide followed WELL KNOWN IN SALT LAKE Frank E Davey a Short Line Em and Prominent Churchman Frank E Davey was connected with the general passenger agents office of lice of the Oregon Short Line up to two months ago He had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Salt Lake He gave up his position with the Oregon Short Line to go to Cali Call California California fornia with his ills wife who was suf suffering fering ferin cnn from a serious Illness and was wa not expected to live Ike Mrs Irs I father Orlando F Davis of the United States land office went with them and andis andIs andis is now in California having been trans transferred erred to the land office there Married in This City Mr and Mrs Davey were wore prominent members of the First Presbyterian church here They were married about three years ago by b Rev Dr W T M 11 Paden Before her marriage Mrs Davey was Miss Carrie E Davis She was wasa a school teacher and an active church worker having charge of a class in the I Sunday school of the First Presbyterian rian nan church Until they moved to California Mr and Mrs Davey Dave lived at East Fourth South street Friends of the family were unwilling to credit the report that Mr Davey had committed suicide It was was under understood understood understood stood here that Mr Ir Davey found work In a railroad office in San Francisco as soon as he arrived In California ant and for this reason It was not believed that despondency over being unable to find work could have driven him to Ion Dr Paden stated last night that Davey was highly esteemed in the Presbyterian church He said that he had been informed that Davey Dave had taken a position in a San Francisco railroad office and that he was doing well Worked Himself Up Mr Davey came to Salt SaIt Lake about abou ten years ears ago He began as a the office of Daniel S Spencer of the Oregon Short Line and steadily worked himself hims up until he occupied an important position in the general pas passenger passenger passenger department Of the railroad Continued on page 2 I FRANK E DAVEY KILLS HIMSELF Continued from Page 1 He was as energetic in church work as in attending to his duties in the rail railroad railroad railroad road office and became president of the Young Peoples association and secre secretary secretary tary of the Sunday Sunda school of the First Presbyterian church He was an interesting speaker said s ld Dr Paden last night He was noted for characteristically original and sin sincere sincere sincere cere talks at the of the Young Peoples association About the time of his marriage three years Jears ago Mrs sister Miss lIss lIssIa May Ia Davis was w s united to E H Dorman of the Salt Lake Hardware company who lives Jives at South Fourth East street I Mr Ir Davey had every promise of ot a abright 1 bright br and successful career In Salt Lake up to a year ago when Mrs Da Davey Davey Davey vey became bec me an invalid following the birth of her child Physicians who at attended attended attended tended her found that she from an affection of the heart and said that it would be necessary for her to live Jive In a lower altitude As A her mother had died die of a similar trouble Mrs Da Davey DaCY Davey vey CY was taken to California Mr Davey followed He was unwilling ing tug to be separated from his wife Be Before Before Before fore his position with the O 0 OS OS S T I he conferred with Dr Paden and other otter friends on the step he was con contemplating and at last decided dl that duty as well as the inclination of his heart required his presence in California hIn In going away from Cram Salt Lake said Dr Paden Mr Davey gave up a good position and faced the difficulties that beset a man who seeks work in a strange place We learned that he had found work in the Southern Pacific railroad office In San Francisco within two weeks after he left us We Ve rejoiced over oer that news Perhaps it was only a temporary position G 0 N Davis of 1435 South Eleventh East street Is a brother of Mrs Davey |