Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 24 | Husband Dies and Wife Takes Life

BID DIES 10 IFEJ1ES LIFE ! Bodies of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith Are Found in Residence by Neighbors. Summoned to tho luse by neighbors who reported they had not Been the couple for two dayg, tho police yesterday discovered dis-covered the bodies of John Smith, SO years old, known nbout Salt Lake a "Happy Jack," a former cmployeo of the city, and his if o lying: on the floor of the hoi no at &17 Mortensen court. According to the police, the couple had been dead two or three dayy. Kx;nni nation, na-tion, they any, indicated Mr. Smith had died from cjil-.ss incident, to old at,rc, while his wife, apparently dispondent because be-cause of tho death of her husband., swallowed swal-lowed a quantity of chloroform-liniment which caused her death. An empty bottle, bot-tle, said by the officers to have contained the poisron, wns found on the table near which Mrs. Snhlh fell. The lips and throat of tho dead woman were discolored discol-ored and burned. The bodies weru removed re-moved lo the O'Donnell mortuary. "Happy Jack" Smith waa a well-known character in Pnlt Liike several years apo. He was a member of the Giand Army, of tho Republic. B'efore tho eoustruction of the Oregon Shore Iiino raiimad lo Montana, Mon-tana, Smith was a freighter between Salt Lake and Butte.