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Show BODY OE SUICIDE FOUNDJ HIS Ben Taylor Ends Life, Note Tells of Suffering From Asthma Spe al to The Tr ne OGDEN Oct The bodv of Ben Ta lor about 50 years of age was found In the ruins of the old sanitarium near the mo of Ogden canyon with a bullet hole through his brain The fact that the re olver with one cartridge dis charged was parti concealed under the man s cap and everal feet from the body ga e rise to a murder theory This was disco raged when the police found wr tten In a memorandum hook, the man s ame nd the statement that he could o longer stand the suffering from asth ia apparently no at tempt had been made to rob the body the police ore con inced that the mat took his own life The body was found b Charles B Hooper 1423 Twenty fifth street about ockxk. Taylor bad been dead about two hours. For the past se en weeks Taylor had lived at the Den cr rooming bouse 163 Twenty fifth street but other than this the police ha e not been able to learn much concern ng the man. He occupied his room last n sht leaving the place about 8 o clo k tl n morning His trunk was careful y pa ked. The body was taken to the Kirkendall undertaking rooms. Hooper was searching for strayed cows when be came upon the bodv In the sanitarium ruins Hooper at once no titled police headq arters by telephone Patrol Driver Quy Nelson W H Reeder ex officio corner and Sergeant C. . Layne responded They found that the bullet from a 3S caliber revolver ad been fired Into the right side of t e head Just a bo e the ear penetrating t e brain and pass ing out of the head above the left ear causing ins ant deat The falling of the hand that hekl the revolver may hare thrown the weapon away from the body according to e police, or the body may have changed position after the revolver was dropped In addition to the usi al personal ef facts, the officers found alt cents in money and a memorandum nook. On the first page was written October S 1914 Stop at Denver rooming house room 15, on 25th. Ogden Ben Taylor Too much asthma, can t stand in the book was f nd a pawn ticket showing that Taylor ad been given 13 j0 on a gold watch tp mber 30 The trunk did not ontaln a scrap of Information concern any relatives or friends the man m ave had He apparently had been laborer but per sons who knew him at t e rooming house did not know where he had worked |