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Show WORRY AND ILP V! cAUSE DIVORCED WkN TO COMMIT SUICIDE; BURNS TO DEATH Jilted Wife, Mother of Three Small Children Pleads For Safety of Her Offspring As Death Nears. woiiu.n on whom he showers 111" : love he nine promised to give to the I now dt'ad wife. Leaves Note S:vnif.ur : I told you the nilit 1 before you b-ff I loved you,"' read the note pcnuid by ihe despondent ; wife. "'You salil yon loved Viola j and would not let in- touch you. I'd :ive mi. st anything if 1 had never ' come to I'liiVii to wnrl;. I was in- t iMicciit of doing anybody any harm. 1 I was not bad. Sv- r nmur. Oh, God, Seymour, .hy did ; ou drive me to di si: race all our J loved ones and family. ( h, if I cou'd have only known the meaning to my last t wo drra ins. ( ib. our .'wo little bay:-. I love them nnd f Ciuen and I love you and all. T v may h: charged innoecn ly. I'll be j in hell always I know. I cjm undo lotlihig. Jennie." According to friends and relatives in this city, (hen had been trouble i1 n the fami'y for several years. Mr. ami Mis. Yonmr had not been living ogetlu r during the past year. arly last summer. Mrs. Young fame to Pn.vo ISeiich. where she worked pic-kin?: strawberries. Later she worked as a housekeeper for ifferen: families in I'rovo. until he brought her three little children tc I'rovo. Shortly af.er that she left 'or Vernal, where she remained nn- til granted a divorce following rthh-h she returned to I'rovo two week ago AYednesday. Kcbiives Notified . It is said that tne Viola referred to in the note .is a former 'student of 'he Young university who is now ea chin; s ho'd in southern 'tali. According to friends of Mrs. Young, he other woman is said to hiive ac-omn-'uled Young when he came to see his children shorty after they imved to Provo. Relatives of both Mr. and Mrs. Young were notified of lie:- death "'t :ii."ht over t h" telephone by Chief YVilkins. The body is helrt n a local undertaking establishment establish-ment pending the arrival of Mrs. Young's brothers. She was horn in Nap:, five mil K'-southeast K'-southeast of Vernal, where her par-nts. par-nts. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis T.ind. s ill live. She is also survived by five i brothers and four sisters, as fo'-lows fo'-lows : Elmer, Raymond, ('ai l, Roy. Lloyd. Katie and Hazel Lind. Mr.. i Lillie Pritchard and Mrs. Ethel 1M-Van!. 1M-Van!. Think cf Mother Throughout Wednesday afternoon the thoughts of the three little children chil-dren were centered a round their sick mo her. Curly -haired 111 I le Lewis was especially concerned of her we' fa re and constantly asked about mother. I Descried by her husband am1, j menially distraught bcause of ill-, ness nnd worry over family troubl-'s! Jrs. Jennie Lind Young, 27. a rcsi-dent rcsi-dent uf Provo. took her own life Vednesdnv afternoon. Mrs. Young burned herself falal'y! n nn oulbuildlng near her home .Vtdnesdny aflernoon, and died in a Provo hospital at 7 :nn o'clock licit veiling, six boms af.er lb" suicide attempt. "With her daughter C.v.i n. X. aici .wo sons, De Yerol. 5, and 1 cues :t Mrs. Young had Ih'H living al l'r o for two weeks, having come from Vernal, where she bad been granted :l divorce from Seymour Youa-formerly Youa-formerly of Vernal, but now said to be living in one of the coal camp?-m camp?-m Carbon coltnly. Gwen. who is n pupil In the thinl grade of a Provo school, says hat her mother had dinner pre :irod as she came from st-liool a' loon Wednesday. Lo 'ban' al hour after Gwen had returned to :hool, the two little boys notified Cannon Jones, neighbor cf .Mrs Young, that their mother was sic, it the outbuilding. Chief Called Chief of Police Wren Wilkin: was notified. When be arrived, hi found lhat the woman was 'yiu: with her hack against lh" door making it impossible for the door P be opened. To gain entrance tin door bail to he chopped down. A ghastly scene presented itself The naked and almost cooker body of the woman was lying death ike on the floor. A pile of asbe: and burned paper nearby bore mnti witness of what bad happened Standing over a largo pile of p:.pe which she had set on fire, the cast uvay wife had allowed t lip fame.-'o fame.-'o envelope her body. Every stitel of clothing had been dovour.-d In he flames. Every part of tbe hod was burned nlmost to a crisp. Kvei 'he hair was singed from her bead "I Want To Die" As Chief Wilkins touched tie body, the woman opened her larg. eyes and in a pleading voice begged beg-ged to be left alone to die. "I want to die." she whisperc' faintly. "I wnnt to die. There i nothing more for me to live for Seymour doesn't wnnt me any more lie loves nnotber woman and ha-gone ha-gone with her. He has left me am' our kiddies. Oh, let me die. 1 want to die." "Are you in pain?" tbe Chief in quired. Not In Pa in "No, I can feel no pain." came tin rep'y. "I just want to cl. I wan' Seymour to be happy. I have neve 1 een hnppy since he left." Outside the outbuilding the lw little towheaded boys were in be wllderment. They did not renliz'' what had happened, hut knew Ibaf something was wrong. They wort the first to find Iheir mother. The bnd found the door wide cnou'-l' n.iar to get their tiny heads through and see the prostrate form lying oe the floor. "Mamma she sick." eommenled Tewis. the little three-year-old. I'niys For Children She was carried Into h"r home and placed on a couch. AVhi!' Chief Wilkins was getting a cover for her Mrs. Young got up and kn"!t lvs-idr the couch p'eading for the safety of her loved ones. In a plaintiv. voice, almost rending Ihe heart of her listeners, nnd wilh lnr band-Ktre'cbed band-Ktre'cbed inlo the air. she murmur ed Ihrough her parched lips. "Oh Cod. save my children! Save nihil ni-hil tie children! Don't let my ehi! I drill be lost!" j Drs. Arnold E. Robison and Karl , ,T. Beck were summoned. Tb-v or dered the body removed to a Provo 'hospital, where surgical t real incut 'cou'd be given, although Ihe- real 'Ized the body was so badlv b irneil it would be a mailer of oulv ae hour or two until dealb would come. The children were taken th" home of C. M. Iverson, who bad known Mrs. Young in Vernal. That Mrs. Young plann-d Pi end' her troubles bv taking hot- life wai (evident from the note she bad writ-j i ten her husband before taking Ihe I filial step. The no'e was found bv I Chief Wilkins on the table of ih'-humble ih'-humble home of Mrs. Young. It IcPl oi her undying 'ove for the man whom she married nine years ngo. It (old of her love fur Hi" children. It defended her clriraifcr It. chided Ihe husband for leaving iher. It mentioned the name of tbe |