Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-21 | Page 10 | Suicide's Message Blames His Wife

I! SUICIDE'S MESSAGE I BLIESJIS WIFE 1 Pocatello Man Commits Sui- jfl cide, Accusing Woman of Starving Him. III Special to The Tribune. II IDAHO PALLS. Idaho, Dec. 20. The ( body or Fred W. Clark was found in one flj of the rooms of the Bonneville rooming-IB rooming-IB house about -1 o'clock this afternoon, lie jfl liad evidently been dead for aorno hours. I On the bed -was a bottle which liad con- talned about thirty grains of strychnine, j about one-third having been taken. Clark "was 43 vcars of at?e and had been i a resident of this city for a number of years, having been employed by tho ! Transfer companies or coal companies ! driving teams. Ho whs considered a n sood, hard working man. About five t ' years ago he married the widow of Ar-( Ar-( thur Owen, who had been killed on tho 2 railroad. It Is said their domestic life was not happy. Among the suicide's effects was a letter let-ter addressed to his wife as follows: Mrs. Ellen Clark Little did you think when you turned mo away from my house that I was starving. You want to get rid or me. so you can do as you please. I won't bother you in this world any more. You have made me what I am, a tramp and m bum as you culled me, so I have U taken a way to go out of your way. FRED "CLARK. H Mrs. Owen has two children and one wn6 born to her after tills marriage. A m photograph of Clark's son. about three years old, had written on the back: B "'Please bury this with me; this Is my It darling son."' m A small testament was wrapped In a 1 1 rapur, on which was written, "Jveep this (ft to Rlvo 'o my son." I Clark left town about a month ago, but J II returned ono or two days ago. NOTED RHODE ISLAND TURKEY RAISER DIES WESTERLY, Ti. I., Dee. 20. Horace Voso, vi-idely kuown as the purveyor of turkeys for Thanksgiving day dinner at the White house, died today. IIo was 73 vears old. Wlien 15 years of ago Itfr. Vose began tho business of raising turkeys and during the term of President Grant couceived the idea of offering tho choicest of his flock for tho president's Thanksgiving dinner. Since that time he has annually provided a turkey for the Whito house, though on the occasion occa-sion of his final gift last mouth his bird shared honors with a turkoy'from the south.