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Show W 'ell Known Salt Laker Who is Dead at Denver J. NAT, LONDONER. J. HAT. LONDONER FUTJUJMWJUIEB Former Salt Lake Detective Is Struck by Auto in Denver and Dies as Result. Word was received In Sail Lako yos-tcrdav yos-tcrdav of the death In Denver of .1. Nat Londoner, former PInkorton detective, who was well known in this city. Londoner Lon-doner was run down by a large automobile auto-mobile truck- at the intersection of Broad -wav and Eighteenth street Monday afternoon. af-ternoon. Londoner was struck by the radiator and one of the rear wheels of tlic truck passed over Ills chest. Ho was taken to ihr county hospital, whero his death resulted. Mr. Londoner will be remembered by Salt Lakers as the Plukerton .dotectlvo assigned on the Investigation of iho theft of SIOU.OUO from the Utah National bank in 1907. For a time Mr. Londoner worked on the case in the employ of the Pin-kerton Pin-kerton agency. Litter ho resigned from the PInkerlon company and worked on the case as a special detective employed bv Salt Lake county. During his stay In Salt Lake he was for a time manager of thcMajestlc theater. Ivor some months prior to his leaving Salt Lako Mr. Londoner Lon-doner was associated, with II. Frank Carey in the conduct of the National Detective De-tective bureau. Slnco leaving Salt Lake Mr. Londoner has been a representative of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a prominent member. He was a member of the Booster committee of the club and was recently given charge of the proposed pro-posed booster excursions of the Denver business men. A peculiar feature of his tragic death Is the fact that the man whom he succeeded in the position with the Chamber of Commerce. George E. Fell, was accidentally killed less than a week ago during the Initiatory work of the Shrlners. Mr. Londoner was a nephew of Woolfe Londoner, prominent business man und former mayor of Denver. Ho was .10 years of ago and single. Mr. Londoner had a brother In Salt Lake, who was summoned to Denver yesterday. Pending an inquest D. W. Haas, driver of the automobile truck which ran over Londoner, Is being held by tho police. Business men are Indignant, as a result of the accident and arc demanding that all automobiles In the business section, and especially at interesctlons, bo under perfect control, which would make an accident impossible. They arc also indignant in-dignant at the "professional ethics" which they maintain were carried to an extreme by physicians In this instance and deprived Londoner of necessary Immediate Im-mediate medical attention. |