Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-13 | Page 2 | Nevada Desert Gives up Body of Former Brigham City Jeweler

NEVADA DESERT GIVES UP BODY OF FORMER BRIGHAM CITY JEWELER Aged Parents Receive Definite Information That Death Claimed Son While on Auto Trip Man Died of Thirst and Exposure Near Tonopah After Becoming Demented Dement Dement- ed Authorities Believe Once again the desert has baa given up Its dead Cringing for months under the expected blow of the tho news of ot the death of their son but always buoyed up by the mirage of ot hope an aged father and mother Mr and Mrs J. J P. P of Brigham City now now are certain that their son 0 O. O C. C Jacobsen hungry thirsty demented lost died in the midst of the theEt Et strewn str str wn sands of south south ada south central Nevada 1 3 A telegram came to them late last night from Cavanugh undertakers of Tonopah relating briefly that an Inquest over the body of a man found In the desert five fifty miles east of Tonopah was that of or their son There were no DO marks of violence on the body Death from causes unknown was the cryptic wording wording- of the jury Jurys Jury's S verdict in the message fol followed followed fol- fol lowed by the prosaic request for tor disposition of the body SHERIFF GOES TO TONOPAH Today Mr Mi- and Mrs Jacobsen Jacobsen- their former fear hitherto unvoiced to each other but always present in the minds of both are bowed with grief while John II H. Zundel sheriff of Boxelder county a lifelong lifelong life lIte- long friend is speeding toward Tonopah to bring back bacI the bod body for burial in Brigham City In Los Angeles lives the widow of ot O. O C C. Jacobsen She was a n bride of but a week when after a disagreement disagreement disagree disagree- ment and ill Jacobsen took his car some Jewelry and about In money and started to drive drle overland overland overland over over- land to Brigham City That was wasOn wason 0 on October 26 1922 In Ogden lives two children a boy and a girl who were Informed today of the finding of their daddys daddy's body Jacobsen was wag divorced from their mother some time ago The body of Jacobsen was found quite near the place where he forced a Mr Nelson NeIlSon a passenger with him himIn himin himin in the Journey to Utah to get out of the machine At that time Nelson Nel Nel- son eon said said that Jacobsen turned the machine and headed for tor the coast Later the machine was vas found out found out of water and out of gas not a great distance from the same spot TRAVELED IN CIRCLE In an endless circle the machine had been driven after the fashion of ot one who wanders aimlessly and and always wanders in a circle SeemIngly Seemingly Seem Seem- after atter he had abandoned the car Jacobsen on foot started on the rounds of the same circle He had gotten back almost to where the car was discovered when he was over oyer come It was but a short distance off oft the beaten trail the desert desert desert des des- ert but Just a little way off that beaten desert trail means miles from civilization Searching parties parties' parties parties parties' par par- ties ties' of ot months failed tailed to find the body although they did discover the car which was returned to Brigham City where since last fall It has awaited the return of its owner It will be a part of or the funeral cortege that will wm follow Jacobsen's Jacobsen's Jacobsen's Ja- Ja body to the BrIgham City cemetery Jacobsen was 34 years ears of ot age and was at one time a prominent Jeweler jeweler jeweler Jew jew- eler of Brigham City He sold his place of business and went to the Iho he coast starting in business again at Bakersfield Cal He married a second time and it was Just a week after that event that he left home taking several pieces of Jewelry a a. small amount of cash and his car The Tho Jewelry was In the machine when It was wa-s found The telegram from the undertakers said nothing about the cash which Jacobsen is supposed to have had in his clothes