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Show I B. PHILLIPS 19 dead enil Well-known Man HangH self in Bathroom of ment House. fll " fl WIFE IS IN HOSjH She Is Kept in IgnoraH Tragedy, for FearB the Result. A. B. Phillips, aged 39, geneH man of tho Donvor & Ulo GraiH road shops in this city, commiH cide yesterday morning byfM himself in his rooms in theH apartments, 7G "First avenuiiH Phillips, who is in St. Mark's recovering from an operation poH Tuesday, is as yot nnacquainfK tho .fact. Absolutely no mq known for Mr. Phillips's actldnH physicians feol that tho truth,'fH ken to Mrs. Phillips, might proiflB to her. ;S Mr. Phillips is known to haviH that his wiro might not recovjH tho operation, but from coutinH ports that she was gaining rajH was bolieved that ho thought tbH est danger was over. When lips failed to call at the hospijH terday as usual, Mrs. Phillips '396 for him, and aftor a longthy oB tlon of the doctors, she was tqH her husband1 had been iniuredjVfi was led to believe that the '!K temporarily kept him from jH her. but 8ho bocamo excited and. continually called for hioH physicians thought lato last nigHj the actual truth could not be keH her many more houra. Shrouded in Mystery. 'jK The cause for the suicide is'H terv. Mr. Phillips accomnlishiH purpose by means of a piece flHE phone wire, which he looped aroH nock, presumably 3tood on the K tbo bath tub, passed the otlorVB tho wiro between tho top of theiifl tho bathroom and the door casl jumped to produce atrangulatioH wire was loft in tho house, acH to tho neighbors, by toIephonH who installed a phone in the apaB Friday aftornoon. The susH body, rovoaling soveral deep gaaS the neck, where the wire had tigjH was discovered at about 12 oclH terday by Miss Aehes Glassy, aH a niece of Mr. PhiUipB, who :H only other occupant of tho &P Miss Glassy said yesterday tha had slept fate, but that she hH awakoned during tho hours cH morning by tho sound of her footsteps about the house. 8iH thai she heard him telephone -'M hospital at about 9 o 'clock, as' she could recollect, and that aiH had finished talking, she had riH to sleep. When slio discovereB uncle in the bathroom she imrnH Jy notified the neighbors. DrY.jB Snrnguc was called, and said tfrH Phillips had been doad nearlH Left No Word Behind. H Apparently no word was left Phillip's for1 his wife or othersB neighbors said that .they had that Mr. Phillips had brooded onj wife's condition continually, bufl he had not openly Bhowed anyflj despondency. A check signed bB Phillips for 225 and made out 'B ncs Glassy was found in one lfl rooms, and it i3 thought that sH tho check was Mr. Phillips's laH tion. It was prosumed that ho leH money to defray expenses incidjfl his suicide and funeral. ijfl A small bottle of chloroform! found i& a pockot of the trousersW Mr. Phillips had on when he waajM A small amount of tho contents 9 bottle had beon usecL It is tH that ho inhaled or drank the oH form provious to hanging hlmsB deaden his senses. Evidence OjH fact that ho was not entirelyiM by the drug is that ho placed tlB tfo back in his pocket after pfl ably using, a part of the fluidB Phillips was nuired' in a pair oH sers and a shirt. The bathtub .B room was partly filled) with watB though the causo for this 1b unB unless, as it is thought by boqmm Phillips at first intended taking Torm ana tnen drowning nimseir Devoted to His Wife. M Mx. and Mrs. Phillips tad'S known to their frionds as being voted couple, Mr. Phillips had; calling on his wifo daily at tajfl Sital, since she was taken therejB ay, and ho bad not been at hiH at the Eio Grande shops since 3Xfl Misa Glassy, whoso home is in SH field, Mo., has beon visiting aunt and uncle since SeptemberyM she camo to Salt Lako with thenjjl thoy had made an extended TH tho east. Miss Glassy was proH with grief yostcrdav and she fe$H worst for Mrs. Phillips when theM is made known to hor. Mr. PH body was taken to the Evans vB taking establishment, iM Mr. Phillips was born in SpTJiM Mo., thirty-nino years ago andH west twelve years" ago, moving tH dies, Cal. From there he wont .H Francisco, thence to GoldfleldB whore ho was superintendent dB tiyo power for tho Goldfiold aaB nopah railroad. From TonopaB went to Oakland, Cal.. where hB employed by tho 2srort.hcra PaclBB road. Ho came to Salt Lako sal months ago and sinco that "BB 'been genoral foreman of thHJ Orando shops. lie was a momflj the Tmmanuel Baptist church, a a Knight Templar and a ShrincjH is survived besides his wife, by father in Springfield, Mo., two H and a sister. His brother, S. Bfl lips, if expected to arrive here to rake charge of the family S.H |