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Show fX THOMPSON DISAPPEARS rfs Note to Me : j and Departs. I g8 Arrested for Cruelty to I Animafs, and His Trial I I Was to Corn Up. 1 i - Jjr FWIKG a young vife, TT. V. Thompson, a grocer at S54 Eaat ,W Flral South street, on Wednesday ilf evening- packed two trunks with iLMhold articles and other goods ?3S?inlght be easily disposed of, and 'ffMttt Ck city for parts unknown, lhe SKudden disappearance of the well-Wloown well-Wloown bu8lnw man. without warning SfcfanyWnd, has left the wife prostrated "I ni in and haw created consternation $ In the neighborhood In which he lived. 2 It Is thieved by many that the man 3 iis offering from temporary aberrant aberra-nt ;t!on of the mind, which led him to ai preally niagnlfl' the really trivial ? '(raubles of daily life until he imagined 'that they were about to overwhelm Itlm. , . 0) ft Sent Wife to Saltair. -lcTte Thompson family had arranged jo go to Saltair Wednesday evening, Sr.d in the afternoon Thompson, sug-est(d sug-est(d to his wife that she so early to the btach, sajinsr that he would follow it thtt clorfng hour. ifrs. Thompson idopttd this suggestion, but her hus-liai hus-liai did not appear ut tho lake. She t'toufht little of this, however, presuming presum-ing that tome business matter had como pp which detained him. But when ahc itlchtd home late at night her feelings can only be Imagined when she dls-cortd dls-cortd that her husband had only been playing a rune that he might desert her and take with him ay much as possible it lhe property. The wife probably could not have believed be-lieved that he had thus -wilfully de-Rrttd de-Rrttd her had not a note been found which left no rooni for doubt n to his intentions. In this note Thompson snld ihnr he was leaving on account of debts jrhlch ht could not meet. He gave no intimation of oven the direction in KhJth he woh going, but remarked that bb wife might ste him ngaln some time. I Wife Takes Charge. I Ytsterdav the wife took charge of the iuftecsi and conducted It with the aid If her brother. Members of wholesale tarns who are creditor? of Thompson ftijA that he had always been prompt in WJjIng his bills and that the sums he li owing them at this time arc not large jr.oogh to occasion any apprehension .whatever on their part; that they would have trusted him for any ren.onable fiinount. While (he wife wu left with ,imly a er.v few dollar.- In cash. It Is be 'lltvctl Uiat i j-he werr in good health he could continue the businac. with tuch aid a? could be given her by relatives, rela-tives, and It Is K)i-sible that she may do thb, anp ay. Worried. Over Arrest. f Thompson had been In business in tJio flty for several years past, and was Stntrally highly respected by those who :iw him. One of hln neighbors said It nljfht lliut he had held for some tlnis the position 01 secretary of the Retail Re-tail Grocers' association, and had been honored In other ways. About a year ljo Thompson was married to a Miss Gtovor of Logan, v.-ho is his second wife. JH has a son 10 years old by his first' Jue, who died some three years ago. tThe fon Is at present living with the ,lit parents-. For some time past. It is said, Thomp-fca Thomp-fca lia bPn subject to fits of passion. rhen he would commit acts for which ; would be heartily ashamed after re-layering re-layering his normal condition of mind. itn one of lhcE0 spells about three 'Hfep ago he severely neat a horse, and ' v lie was arrested. Tho case waa l cave been tried yesterday In the City w ?:h and lt 16 not unlikely that it was Atf t?"10" whlch ho felt tnJa flffaIr Put V him that, more than anything" else, ltr Wm t0 dccltle to flee from hi3 . |