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Show BODY IS r IDENTIFIED BY BRIDE . Strange Suicide of Sunday Near Ogden Partially Explained Ex-plained Today. BROUGHT GIRL FROM ITALY TWO WEEKS AGO Negotiations Pending for ' Purchase of Home Pro-voHed Pro-voHed Insanity. (Special to The Telegram.) OODEX, May 3. Tha Italian wiwl threw himself tinder ths wheels of 0. 8. I. freight train Ko. 4 at thg Wsbsr river bridge Sunday afternoon and wag cut and battered to death, was idea tilled this warning by his arid tw wests as John Oaatagno. Ths $1000 In nr- , rency found in s money bait about ths dead man's waist, was being carried by hsr htuband, Mrs. Castagno sayt, for ths purpose of buying s little horns where they might live In happiness and comfort, Mrs. Castagno believes her husband was stricken temporarily insane, aa s result of an injury received several years ago, when his head was hurt, coupled with the fact that he had worried wor-ried somewhat about making a loan to add to the $1000 he already hsd for the purchase of hia home. Mrs. Castagno speaks no English. Through an interpreter she told the officials of-ficials this morning, though shaken with grief, that she came to America two weeks ago on money sent her by her lover. Her maiden name was Deliirenti Virginia, she said, and she knew Cas tagno for several years in Italy. Then he came to America in search of wealth and true to hia promise sent her money to join him aa soon as be had laid a little money aside. The couple were married by John V. Bluth, deputy county coun-ty clerk. Mrs. Castagno aavs that she and her husband had looked at a house, with a view to buving. Saturday. The piece they had almost decided on could not be purchased for less than 43000, and her husband, ahe says, hsd just about made up his mind to borrow enough money to make the first payments. Sunday, Mrs. Castagno says, hs left the house near the O. 8. L. yards, where they had been living, and took ths $1000 with him as hs had intended dosing dos-ing up tha negotiations with the ownes of tha house. Thst was the last Mrs. Castagno saw of her husband until, worried wor-ried by his non-appearance at home again, aha visited the morgue thia j morning and identified His lifeless body. Being unable to speak the English language, Mrs. Castagno has suffered mental tortures without having friends in whom to confide her fears sine, Sunday nieht. She was in a very nervous nerv-ous state this morning and as the eorpse sheet waa lifted from the features ef her husband and, she recognised him, she eollnpsed. The body wif) be held for burial pending pend-ing advira from relatives ia Kemmerer and Kansas City. |