| Show DEATH OF A SALT LAKE RECLUSE William Moser Dies a Stranger to the People Among Whom He Had Lived for Many of His rf J 1 Eccentricities William roser Moser who died on Sunday and who will be burled buried tomorrow was wasa a stranger to the people among whom he had hived for Cor years earll past Altogether he was one or of the queerest characters of tile Ule community lie came here Q a Ion long longtime time lime os just how long ago no one seems to kno know 1119 IIi eccentricIties par partook partook took of n a mysterious and un unbroken unbroken broken silence regarding his own at an Builders and house houte renova renoa tore tors knew of oC Moser I r the and whitewasher the they knew that he was nn an expert In that line or of business nut But that was all the they was nil all anybody knew Even Een hiS landlady watt Ignorant ot of his history On one coca occa slon an acquaintance n a letter for or him to a brother In SwItzerland but no one ever eer heard him speak I enk of hI faintly connections JUt Just why Moser should have haye wrapped himself In such a 0 mantle ot of mystery cannot be explained It Is hardly thought that there was anything In his life lICe to justify such secrecy find and yet et who attempted to draw him out ot of the sphere ot of muteness In which h lie moved moed ask each other wh why lie he was 1188 IO 50 Im impervious to their If H he was or nod over been a memo mem her ber of oC any church that tact was as carefully kept from the public as any other with which he was connected and at attended attended StIll he was wall deeply religious tended the tho ot of various arlous do de particularly tho o ot of the Sable antI Salvation Arm Army though lie ho did not r restrict himself to these alone lIe He was nn an extensive or er and was frequently found In the p pub b lie library peerIng over oer the pages pases of at some work that struck his fancy Once In n a great grent while he smiled and would crack a joke and occasionally he would enjoy one cracked b by another But Dut generally such LUCIa a 0 proceeding met with a stony stare such as he was wont to give gle the man who attempted to In Into hIs post past Recently he be became came Ill and was taken from hIs little chicken coop such was 4 the use ue to which his humble abode had bad been conveyed to th the Holy HolyCross Cross Cros hospital for tor treatment There It was discovered that lie he had cancer of the stomach and lint the end was soon to come The Tho attendants told him that lie he had better send for tor ills his friends anti arrange his affairs lie replied I have hae no friends I know no ono one well welland anti and no one knor e me But Dut he did finally request Mr fr P F Gose GoS to come and see him The request was granted and Ind Mr Gos Is now at atran ran ranging ng for the mans funeral Not Notwithstanding withstanding the warning or of the hospit al a nurses Moser could not be made to believe bellee that he was going to die anti and therefore probablY withheld froni Mv h hGO Goes GO what he otherwise would have 11 en Today Mr Ir Goss GOIS found a deposit I of 30 to Ills hIs credit In one bank and 50 In another This may end ma may not w be wall beall all ot of his c estate tate It will VIII however glye him a decent burial It Is stated that he owed no nina man ti cent and that M he al always a ways paid cash down for tor the fe few nece that he required lie was about years of oC ago 80 anti will be bur bun burled led frOm rota ODonnell undertaking par parlors lore lors ot at 30 tomorrow Interment will lake place pineo nt at the Salt lAke CIl City come ter tery Friends are Invited |
