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Show Hffl m 7flf m ms wmmmyMmm TOLD IN SUECSSJE'S LETTER Henry T. McMahon'. an alleged wealthy sheep owner, committed suicide sui-cide In a rooming-house In ' Ogden Thursday night, by firing a bullet Into his brain from a revolver. - Before committing the deed McMahon wrote a letter that has caused the arrest ar-rest and detention of Myrtle Huling, a Commercial street woman, and G. A. Lorenz, who is alleged to be her companion, com-panion, on suspicion of having committed commit-ted a foul murder In Nevada, Lorenj and the woman are stilt held at the police department, pending ad-vices ad-vices from Nevada, where the police and Sheriffs have been asked to com- municate with the local police, and Inform In-form .them If .a. murder suth'as McMahon Mc-Mahon described, had ever been committed. com-mitted. " The letters which ' McMahon wrote, and which caused the arrest" and detention deten-tion of the man and .woman, were written writ-ten but a short time before he took his life. In the letters McMahon alleges that Lorens "and the woman killed a man, whose name the writer did not know, in Nevada, for his money. McMahon also alleged that the man I and woman desired to murder him after j he had supplied her with large sums of money.'" - v. ' The fact that McMahon wrote to the landlady at 30 Commercial street early last month,', from- a. point In Oregon., signing the letter' with an assumed name. In which he charged Myrtle Huling Hul-ing with the murder to which he referred, re-ferred, and asked that he be told where b he could be found, , coupled with the fact that McMahon In a letter written to the woman three weeks later, pledged his life that he would protect her from discovery, has led the police to believe that McMahon was demented. dement-ed. McMahon, it Is alleged, was deeply Infatuated with the Huling woman, who is many years younger than him-. him-. self, and '.t is believed that his place- In her affections was taken by another. The deposed lover Is believed to have been inspired to write the letters accusing accus-ing the woman and her more recent lover with the crime by jealous Insanity. Insan-ity. The txrilce department has not yet been able to learn from the Nevada officials of-ficials of any murder that has occurred there within the ierlod mentioned by McMahon, that has not been traced. |