Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-10-26 | Page 5 | Novelist's Wife Called to Gambler Inquest

Novelists Novelist's Wife Called To Gambler Inquest RENO Nev Oct 26 UP Mrs P Mrs Gwyn Conger Steinbeck estranged wife of novelist John Jonn Steinbeck will be summoned to an inquest Thursday in the death of Leonard H H. H Wolff 28 authorities said Tuesday Tues Tues- day Dist Atty Harold O. O Taber said Mrs Steinbeck may have been the thelast thelast thelast last person to see the World War Var II flier and son of a wealthy Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver family alive His body with a bullet wound in the head was found on the desert near here early Saturday Tabor said Wolff had lost approximately at blackjack a few hours earlier Coroner Laurance Layman said Mrs Steinbeck accompanied Wolff VoU to a gambl gambling ng club south of Reno where he wrote three checks to cover his losses Later the coroner added he took Mrs Steinbeck home to the guest ranch where she nhe is establishing Nevada residence Layman termed Wolff's death wound self-inflicted self but said the father Jacob Wolff of Denver re refused refused re- re fused to accept the conclusion The dead man was granted a divorce last week from Sylvia L. L Wolff Volf At the divorce hearing the war veteran ga gave gae e his assets as 4 7 in securities