Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-09-12 | Page 1 | Salt Lake Youth Drowns Seeking Missing Father

SfiT LAKE YOUTH HIS SEERIiiG i DIG FATHER I Parent Disappeared Only Three Day Ago; Mother of Youth in Salt Lake Seeks More Information RECENT LETTER TOLD OF. BOY. IN SEATXII Authorities See Crime in Latest Death, but Cannot Explain Motive; Victim Was Violinist in Theatre The body of Howard F. Barrv. IT yeara oC a. 7l Jarkeon avenue, Belt LaJie Clly, waa found floennir In the Willamette river. In county, Orea-on, yeaterdsv. The news only deepened the mya(ry created cre-ated by the strange dmappea.ra.nre of hla falfirr, Clarence Barry. 44 your) of a,e, who disappeared from l'ort -land. Ore.; three rlaya ago, under ml i-terloue i-terloue rlrcumetancee. Barry', mother. Airs. C. K. Wh. received tele,rms yesterday aft.r. noon telling of the finding of hr eon'a body In the river. The bur had a one tn aearrh of his father, an l the dlarovery of hla borlv was tn flraf newe that hla minhnr re.-riv.l of him since a very iwnit lm-r which tout of the disappearance cf hla father. VIOLINIST IN THEATRE. Howard waa an excellent vlolinl-t and played In the Oaalno theatre at Portland. Hla father relde1 at tie Valley hotel In Portland. Wh.n I a left the city he told no one of h e Intentlona, according - to word r--relved here, end he left all hla I -lonclnaa at the hotel, aa ihourh i i had stepped out of tha room for a brief absence. No explanation of how the bo'v-of bo'v-of Howard came to be found In t river haa been received. IsH. found In hla rlothea ere believed have led to hla Identification. 1 e theory of foul play la said to been entertained by the police ft Portland, but relatives are at a We to explain the motive for murder. MORE INFORMATION SOUGHT. Mra. Welsh haa rommunlcatM with tha Portland authorities In ar attempt to oMmn further I vht n the matter. The body of Howa 1 Kerry will he hronrht to Bait Lk for services and Interment. Mra. Welsh aaid today that It might prove that the body Is that of her former husband and not her S"n. A dlapetch received from Ore n stated that the man whore body v. found might have been about 25 years or aae. The police are Inclined to believe that the body Is that of the younger man. The undertaker h e been asked for a complete description.'