Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-26 | Page 1 | Salt Laker's Body is Found in Bay

SILT LAKER'S BODY IS Ml 1 BAY Advices Indicate E. B. Spencer nlay Have Committed Suicide at San Francisco. DES PON DENT, DISAPPEARS Brother of D. S. Spencer. Popular Railroad Official of This City; Burial May Be Here. The body of K. 13. Sneneer., a native of this city, was found flouting In Han Kranelsco bay Saturday, according -to advices ad-vices received from San Francisco early this mornlnpr. Tho advices indicate tbat Spencer committed com-mitted sulcldo by drowning but Salt l.ako relatlvns of tho dead man are at a loss to account for the motive. Spencor was a brother of Daniel S. Spencer of 155 Second avenue, this clty wlio Is assistant general passoriRer agent for the Oregon Short Lha-. and a half-brother half-brother of Pomeroy Spencer of 170 F street, who in engaged In the heatlnsj and contracting business. The former, with Mrs. Spencer, is in Twin Tails. Ida., but n lolegrain received ?Ht",S1,t tclll,K of the flndlnK of Ii.. B. Spencer's body was forwarded to hfm at Twin Palls Immediately. Tn all probability iho bodv will be brought to this ciiy for burial. Spencer was born iu IIiIh city about f.O years ago. and until 17 years old mado his home bore. lOarly In life he learned telegraphy, working both for the West-1 em Union Telegraph company and for railway companies. This took him all over the country, so that ho spent onlv a small part of his life after he was 17 In this city. t Spencer married a Kansas City woman who obUilned a dlvorco from him, taking tak-ing their four children with her. Tho divorced wife and tho children now live in Kansas City. Spo-icer i wo years ago went to San Francisco lo woik as an operator for the Western t'niou Telegraph eompnnv. The dispatches say that Spencer disappeared about two weeks ago and that prior to bis disappearance he was despondent. Silencer's parents are dad. Susie Spencer, an aetiOhs. who tiled several years ago, was his sister.