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Show CHUM OF BOY SUICIDE IS MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING HBBwf Vsa. iw ' 1 Li M aBBaBaaaJ EsVwf'aBT JPjrmL m ' ;-' 'fk ' KsTl BY ? Bex I bMb7 , ..'JCS, JSi BBBBBBBBBwIftl -Lssa)rWak. ktL. " J9 eBBBB ' 'jsLr"1 MtW'' t m&MT Uv' M '" t&S wmttMm fe" aVl Baaaa LESLIE ENSIGN The sudden disappearance of Lealle Ensign, En-sign, who until Saturday waa employed at the Sweat Candy company, la shrouded In a mystery that battles the police. Ensign waa laat seen by his chum. Earl Ashby, Saturday In company com-pany with Marcus Poppls, D Ing at SM South State atreet. Since then nothing haa bean seen nor heard of the misatmj youth. Tangible evidence connects the sudden disappearance of Ensign with the suicide of K E. Howes, the nineteen-year-old youth who killed himself Wednesday night by discharging a shotgun Into hla right aide. It la said that Ensign and Howes were seen In a lengthy conversation conversa-tion In front of the T. M. f. A. Saturday night and the two were known to be friends and Howes had often called at the association building to visit Ensign Both are said to have been friends of Visa EHep nuff ..mpl.ed at the Sweet Candy company, to whom Howes left a note before the suicide. Miss Cluff has not yet called at police headuartern for thla note and refused to talk. She admits ad-mits that she waa acquainted with Ensign. En-sign. The missing boy was held in high esteem blv the officials of the T. M. C. A. He regularly attended the Sunday morning services at the Phillips Congregational Congre-gational church and waa a ataunch student stu-dent of the Bible. He loved to go Into the hills and apent manv of hla holidays In the mountalna. He bad a camera and had many pictures he had taken In the mountalna and canyona bordering on the east of the valley. Friend Is Alarmed. Karl Aahby. an intimate chum of Ensign, En-sign, first became alarmed at the die-pearance die-pearance of the youth. He notified the Y. M. C. A. officials that his friend had not been seen since Saturday night- Ashby and Knslan had plsnnM to make a trip Into, the mountains Sunday Knslprn failed to appear and his . hum. believing he had gone to churi-h. watehed for him to come out. but he was not there. On Tuesday, when the attention or the T. M C A. ofrit-lals was i-utled to the disappearance disap-pearance of Knslari, an Investigation brought to light the fact that the boy had not occupied hla room alnce Haturdav night. HI camera, working clothes and other personal belong! nga were In t he room. He left no note to enlighten the Inquisitor on the mystery of his disappearance. disap-pearance. Earl Aehby. who live at 1114 Bmer-on Bmer-on avenue, says he knows of no reason why Kuala-, should have skipped out. Leslie Ensign comes from Payette. Ida., where he has a mother and several sisters. sis-ters. His mother has been notified of her son's disappearance by the secretary of the T. M C. A., and aha telegraphed thl mornlna that he had not been seen In Payette and announced her intention to come to Salt Lake to earch for her missing boy. Hla Boom Was Undisturbed. Knslgn Is IS veers of age. He waa of an unusually religious nature for a vouns boy and had several books In hla, room touching on religious questions. His friends say that they never knew of him asaoclatlnjr with any girls. He spent his holidays and leisure moments either at the association building, reading, read-ing, or in the hills When hla room was entered this morning morn-ing by Detective William Zees, who 1 investigation- the mystery, the contents were all In neat order. Thar wa no sign of drawers being turned upside down or clot hi na tossed about In preparation for a haaty departure. The officer found In one of the drawer a art of skeleton keys that would pick almost any lock, which he confiscated. |
