Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 18 | Du Pont Believed to have been in Love

DU PONT BELIEVED TO HI BEEN Ifi LOVE Special to The Tribtine. OGDEX, Oct. 6. A possible explanation explana-tion for the suicide of Gerald F. Du Pont, who killed himself while out riding- with Miss Harlane Browning last Thursday afternoon, is believed to have been contained in a letter received re-ceived here last nignt from Miss Blanche Reardon of Flagstaff, Ariz., and which lias been returned to the sender unopened. Miss Reardon, who is believed to have been a sweetheart of the eastern man, entered into the tragedy iu a note which was found among Du Pont's personal effects. The letter received last night was addressed to Du Pont himself, it having hav-ing been written before Miss Reardon received the telegram announcing his death. ft was not opened, and soon afterward a telegram was received by George E. Browning, father of Miss Browning, asking that it he returned without being opened. Tire, request was complied with. The message addressed to Miss Reardon Rear-don and found in Du Pont's pocket after the shooting is believed to furnish fur-nish conclusive proof that he contemplated contem-plated suicide hours before the shooting shoot-ing took place. The note was written iu Latin with these words: " Vae vcfis felo de se, " and is said to mean, "Woe to the vanquished self-destroyed." It was the presence of this note which caused the Brownings to inform in-form Miss Reardon of Du Pout s death Thursday evening. According to the Brownings, Du Pont spent several weeks at Flagstaff, Ariz., when he first came west to regain his health. It was during this stay that he made the acquaintance of Miss Reardon. Rear-don. When he left Flagstaff to come to Utah it was upon the advice of Theron Littlefield, a former Ogden man, that he spend the summer on the Turner ranch in Lost Creek. Definite instructions have not yet been received here regarding the sending send-ing of tho body east, although arrangements arrange-ments are bein- made bv the father, Maurice Du Pont, through an express company to have the body sent to Ashe-ville, Ashe-ville, X. C. It is probable that the body will leave here Mondav afternoon.