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Show OFFICIALS DECIDE DI 11811 INQUEST Los Angeles Man Writes a Letter on Case Which t Causes Further Action So lal to The T b ne OGDEN Dec ii On the adv ce ot County Attornej Joseph E E ans jrep nratlons were n ado to la to hold an n q est in the case ot V L shbj the stranger whose bolj was takon fron a lond south of th s city a wcel ago th Judge W II Teeder ex off cio coroner as fore an, the jurv w 11 be . con J osed of Ed "VI Morr ssey 1 red Packard and Ired C Isasbtt "Mem bers of the jury viewed the body ot the i dead n an at the Iandquist uaderta.lt ng reo s todaj anl the nquest v, 1 be held at 11 o clock next Mo day rnorn ing faher ffT ; DeV ne and h s deputies obtained some further inf orn at on on the case today in a letter fron I W Gleason the Xos Angeles man whose name was s gned to one of the letters found n the pockets of Ashby s cloth lng Cleason according to h s letter tak.es the same iew as E G Ashby brother of the dead n an, that t s r d c ulo s to th nk of su cide n connect on with the strange case He also asse ts that 4.shby was of a cheerful d spos t on The Los Angeles n an made a tr p to Long Beach to obta n what informal on he could regard ng 4.shby He d scov ered that the man had been employed by the American Potash companv as a n ach n st from August 1914 to Febru ary 1 191o All employees, according to the letter had some trouble in get t ng the r money and Ashby drew the last of h s wages !76 18 abo t De cember 1 It s with a part of th 3 n oney the local authorit es believe that Ashby purchased the t ctet to Chi cajrch From information obta ned by Gleason at a place where Ashbv roomed for two years in Long Beach he reached the conclus on that the man had some t me a ago rece ve 1 an 'urgent req est to ret rn to England and spend the hoi days there Such a request according to the sheriff s off cers might have been re spons ble for despondencv when the man was without monej to make the trip Of Ashby s d spos tion and reputa t on the Los Angeles man writes 4.11 " cons der t s r d culous to snppose he conim ttel su c de He was a man of good hab ts and cheerful d spos t on and he was not a dr nk ng man Gleason s letter as ma led from Los Angeles De cember "1 The members of the cor oner a urj viewed the body today so that the f neral m ght be held Saturday nr Sun lay but it is probable the serv es w 11 not be conducted until Mon rla Intern ent w 11 be made m Ogden i C tj cemeter |