Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-20 | Page 8 | Officers at Loss to Explain Author's Death

Officers at Loss To Explain Authors Author's Death I NEW V YORK May 20 INS INS INS-A A I shocked ed Broadway and puzzled I police appeared at a complete loss Joss Friday to explain the bathtub death of year old Thomas Thomas' 0 m a i Heggen author of one of the i I years year's cars smash hit plays Mr Robi Rob- I i erts I Young Heggens Heggen's nude body was I found Thursday morning submerged submerged sub- sub merged cd in 14 inches of water in i his bathtub On a washstand near nearby nearby I by stood a bottle that investigators said originally held 50 sleeping I ta tablets No notes were found in the theauthor's theauthor's I authors author's m mid i d t tow o w n Manhattan I apartment however and police withheld an official ruling on circumstances circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- of ot the death pending completion of an autopsy Friday Heggen shared the apartment with writer-actor writer Alan Campb who has been in California G some weeks Campbell said Hollywood that he talked to HJ ii gen g-en by telephone as recently Wednesday and he seemed 1 wonderful spirits I a r Campbell said Heggen Heggenn un n could have killed himself and and- pressed the opinion the youns young thor dozed off in the tub andi and drowned accidentally f j