Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-09 | Page 3 | Wife Bomber Dies of Wounds

WIFE BOMBER DIES OF WOUNDS The bedroom dynamite charge he confessed using to lo slay his wife wiCe claimed the life Monday of oC Byron Chatterton 43 Sandy dole recipient Suffering cuts and burns over his chest abdomen and legs from the blast last Thursday midnight when he set off ort a stick of ot dynamite in the bed in which he and his wife Alta AIta Chatterton 37 had retired Chatterton died Sunday at 4 30 p. p m. m in the Salt Lake genera general hospital Had he lived he would have faced a first degree murder charge said Chief Deputy Sheriff George Beckstead Beckstead Beck- Beck stead to whom Chatterton confessed confessed confessed con con- his plot of at murder and suicide suicide sui sul- cide hatched after a quarrel with his wife Chatterton had been an inmate of the Idaho state mental hospital and according to his eldest son had re recently recently recently re- re suffered a spell At the hospital he was under surveillance of oC officers night and da day Born November 5 ri 1893 in Salt La Lake e Cit City Chatterton had engaged in mining at Swan Lake Idaho where his wife wite was born He leaves loaves three sons sans George Munn and Vaughan Chatterton and three daughters Mrs Harold Myers of oC and Jean and Sarah Chatterton Chatterton Chatterton Chat Chat- two sisters Mrs B. B A. A Davis of ot Ogden and Mrs Ralph Wad Wad- of at Sandy Joint funeral services were held heM heldor for or Mr and Mrs Byron Bvron Chatterton in the Sandy First First L. L D. D S. S ward chapel at 2 p. p m. m Monday under direction of oC Bishop Harold Brad- Brad Icy ley Speakers included Carl J. J Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- son A. A M. M Nelson and Bishop Brad Brad- ley Music was given by the Sandy junior high school girls' girls chorus of oC 15 voices Mr Chatterton's body was interred in the Sandy city tery The body of oC Mrs Chatterton will be taken to Fawn Lake Idaho at a. a m. m Tuesday for burial Bishop Bradley said children of the couple will be cared for in Sandy