Show MYSTERY VEilS DOUBLE DEATH IN PROVO HOME I Man and Wife Found Dead in Bed After Request Request Request Re- Re quest Had Been Made for a P Physician h y sic i a n Dual Fatality May Have Been Due to Fumes From Gas Heater Sheriff Calls for foi I Inquest n que s t PROVO March 17 A A coroners coroner's Inquest was called at 2 o'clock this afternoon to determine the cause of death of Charles L. L Bristol 28 years of age and his wife wite Doris Davis Bristol 19 in their rooms at atthe atthe atthe the home of pf Melvin FUlmore Fillmore East First North North street yesterday With conflicting opinions as to the actual cause of oC death the matter remains much of a mystery Upon returning from Salt Lake at 7 o'clock last evening Mrs Fillmore Fillmore Fillmore Fill- Fill more w went nt Into Bristol's room to see Mrs Bristol who had been confined confined con con- fined to her bed with illness Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day night Mrs Fillmore smelled gas gasi and found both Mrs Bristol Bristo and her husband In bed dead She called her husband who called Sheriff J. J D. D Boyd to the scene NO INJURIES VISIBLE Sheriff Boyd could find no trace of any bodily Injury on either BrIstol Bristol Bris BrIs- tol or his wife He lie was told that thata a dog had been found at the door to the room with his bis nose to the floor apparently seeking fresh air This together with other evidence convinces convinces convinces con con- vinces Sheriff Boyd also County Physician L. L C. C Potter and County Attorn Attorney y Martin M. M Larsen who later arrived at the scene that death was due to asphyxiation Although Al AI though a gas heater In the room was burning It was explained that both doors and windows were closed and that the gas heater had Been burning Incessantly for several hours thus absorbing every bit of oC oxygen In the room and rendering the helpless According t to the story told by Dr Bristol had called Dr J. J C. C Clark to attend Mrs Bristol Bt Saturday night Dr Dr Clark examIned examined exam exam- ined med her bet herand and stated that he was pleased with her progress Sunday noon t th doctor was again called by bya y ya a little girl In the house who called him it developed eloped at the bidding bidding bidding bid bid- ding of Bristol who wio staggered out of the room upstairs to the the- telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone and suffered red a a. temporary faint which disabled him from us usIng using using us- us ing the phone COUPLE APPARENTLY ASLEEP Dr Clark came about 12 1230 30 In the afternoon looked Into the room and saw Mr and Mrs Bristol In bed apparently asleep lIe He did not want to disturb them thinking perhaps that the girls girl's call was not necessary sary sacy so he left the pl place ce without any more than a cursory glance glanc at atthe atthe atthe the two persons according to re re- re port Mrs Mrs Susie Davis mother of or Mrs Irs Bristol learned of the death of or her daughter she became frantic frantic and inferred d that It was murder on the part of or Bristol Mrs Davis is staying here with another daughter Mrs Harold Stohl She alleged that this was Bristol's third marriage and that t he was a bigamist He HeI married my daughter three months I Continued on pa page t. t e 4 MYSTERY VEILS i Continued from page 1 I ago before he was divorced from I II his other ther wife wile said Mrs Davis and nd they had tf tobe married again eleven days later tp make it legal J The were were first married in in Ouray Colo Cob and later and 1 1 r in Montrose I Colo Cob it was vas said sald The couple had I been in Provo bOut two weeks during which time they had disagreed dis- dis dis disagreed disagreed agreed with the girls mother and quarreled it is said sald TRIED TO HIDE WIFE I. I They at first firt lived with Mrs Davis but after atter tho quarrel Bristol took his wife away and tried to keep their whereabouts secret He lie I wanted to take her to Idaho buther but buther her mother was not In favor of this and attempted to separate the couple couple coupie cou cou- I pie according to Dr Dx Potter Dr Potter declares however that I the the room room In which the couple lived I contained less than cubic fe fet feet t I of air and that almost all the oxygen oxy- oxy i I gen pen was absorbed by th the gas flame i I Also that there was no opening no opening for foro o oxygen gen to come into t the e room ItI It j I w was pointed out that Mr and Mrs Fillmore were oppressed with gaseous gaseous gaseous gase gase- ous odors when they entered the I room Thus said Dr Potter it I must have been accidental but the coroners coroner's Jury will decide |