Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-08-01 | Page 2 | Hangs Self to Bed Post When Wife Prepares to Leave Him

HAN HAGS sEL lf TO Tn TOBED BED 80 r POST T WIFE PREPARES IT ITO LEAVE lAV I HM M I FTER a violent violet altercation AFTER with his wife Valter Walter B B. B I. I Phelps shortly before noon toI today today to to- I day su suddenly denly left her went I upstairs to his bedroom and I jerking an electric light connection I from Its fixtures hung himself to a bedpost with the light cord I I Ho He resided at South Fifth East street The wife wire a few rew minutes later entering entering entering en en- the chamber to pack her trunk and leave her husband discovered him hanging to the post dead The suicide is said to be the tho outgrowth outgrowth outgrowth out out- growth of ot a series of or quarrels be between between between be- be tween the couple extending since their theirS marriage Phelps had only recently returned from ti-om his fathers father's funeral in the East Thirty years of age Phelps up until the the time of his departure east was employed as a bookkeeper for the Tracy Loan and Trust company Since his return he he has been unemployed The couple couple were married last De De- cember Since the wed wedding ing neighbors say their marital life Ilfe has been one ollo series of quarrels This morning sounds of a violent altercation were emitted from the abode A year old daughter Blanche manche of the wife by a former marriage today related to the police incidents surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding the suicide She said she heard the sounds of the quarrel and that she was to leave eave with her mother