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Show BELIEVE HOFFMAN Police Investigate Mysterious Mysteri-ous Death of Salt LaKe Citizen. FOUNT UNCONSCIOUS . IN STREET GUTTER Apparently' RecoversTThen Goes Insane and Soon , Dies. . '. Adolph Hoffman, 33 year old, a carpenter whose home was at 645 South West Teirale street, died at his home at 7 . o'clock thii morning, morn-ing, of cerebral hemorrhage, caused by a blow on the head. Whether Hoffman ' was murdered mur-dered by thugs, or was the victim of an accident may never be known. The detectives of the police po-lice department are working on the theory that Hoffman was sandbagged by holdups, and sifter his pockets were rifled of what few valuables he had in his possession, pos-session, that he was left in the gutter gut-ter to recover consciousness as best he might, or to die.' '" Hoffman was take to th emcrgeacy awpftkl at polio headquarter at 8:45 a 'clock yesterday 'morning, goffering as th result of a blow oa tbe head. He had been nneonsciou, ia th gutter oa Third Booth street between Second and Third West street,, and was found by a passerby. ' Thia man revived Hoffmaa, aad after a fe'w minute he seemed to b all right, and the pedeatriaa let him go believing that he had recovered. Hoffman made hia way to Main and Second South street and was overcome over-come by dirxlnees, and sat on th curb, where he waa found by Patrolman L, F. Wire, who called the patrol ambulanee aad had th man taken to the emergency emer-gency hoapital. Hoffman told Patrolman Patrol-man Wire that he had been assaulted bv thugs, but his story was bo Incoherent Incohe-rent aad he was so thoroughly daxed that he could not tell any of th details of the assault. Sodden Chang for Woraa. Th detectives determined to await Hoffmnn 'a more complete recovery before be-fore questioning him closely, in order to give him a chance to recover his faculties. facul-ties. Hoffman had suffered a bad cut over the left, eye; th right aid of hi far was bruised severely and hi right arm was wredched. After he waa taken to hia home, Hoffmaa Hoff-maa apparently recovered rapidly from his injury, aad rested comfortably until lata yesterday afternoon, when he became be-came much worse aod hia friend became be-came frightened. - He became inaana almost al-most without warning and attempted to burn hia home and that of. former .Councilman George H. Rayboold. 943 South West Temple street. Hoffman wa, restrained, however, by Mr.' Rayboold, with whom Hoffman had been on friendly term for several veare. Mr.- Ravbould remained with Hoffmaa during the greater part of the day, and early laat night aummoned Dr. F. Moormeistor. Hoffmaa grew worse very rapidly Sintil T 'clock thia morning, when h died. Oaa rail of Mystery. Justice Harry 8. -Harper aad the county attorney were notified of Hoffmaa Hoff-maa death, and viewed bis body at his horn this morning. It I, likely that an inquest will be ordered by th county attorney. The death of Hoffmaa provide a case that ia ailed with -ravst erious aad eon-flirting eon-flirting feature, aad that bit prove baffling to tb detstivea in their effort ef-fort to lea re th truth. It may sever be determined whether Hoffmaa stum-bred stum-bred aad fell, or whether he was brutally bru-tally alaim by thug. In th event it ii-deflnitely shown that he was murdered, mur-dered, it will prove a difficult, if not impossible, matter to fix 'th responsibility responsi-bility for jia death. Hoffmaa 'is known to have beea drinking during Wednesday night. I (Continued on page a.) ADJOURNMENT LIKELY (Continued from page 1.) maana committee will meat today lo dl-cuaa dl-cuaa tha eltuation." BOTJBB DEBATES MOTIOlf TO OVEBBIDB VETO WASHINGTON. Aug It The wool tariff revlalon bill vetoed by Prealdent Taft waa called up In the hotlea early today. riomocratlr Leader ';narwood moved that the houaa. on reconsideration, paaa the bill over th prealdent a veto. Tha houaa agreed on three houra debate on rnderwoodTa motion. R'preaantetlve James of Kentucky. Democrat, led oft In advocacy of conraaa carrying tba bin over tha veto. ft Tha aupport of tha Inattntent RepuMl-rana RepuMl-rana In the house In th Democratic p Ian to overrlda tha veto waa foreshadowed oy a pech of Representative Lenroot of Wleconaln. progrosalve Bepub Iran and doe friend of Senator I.a rollett. Mr. Lenroot aald the veto waa baad on Igno-ram-e. not Infuf mailowi ANOTHEB VETO OOMTJIO. WAHHINOTON. Aug. II. -Praaldont Taft a third veto maaaa to tha epac-lal aeaalnn. dlaapprovlng th farmera free Hat bill will b ant to th houae thla afternoon. af-ternoon. Tha bill reached the whit house ahortly after in o'clock today and the prealdent Immediately aet to work on the meeeaae. material for which he baa been collecting for aevral woaka. Tha roeaaage. It 1 aald, will ba ahort. WABHINOTON. Aug- " Tha apaclal aenata committee appointed to Inveatlgat th lctlon of Bn,tor - 8tphenaon of Wlaconaln decided todav to begin hear-Inga hear-Inga In Milwaukee on October t. Senator Heyburn of Idaho, chalrmair of tha eom-mltta. eom-mltta. aald a report might be ready aoon after the regular aeaalon meeta In December. Decem-ber. WABHINOTON, Aug. II. The campaign cam-paign publicity bill, aigned by Sneaker Clark, waa returned to the aenata and aigned by Vic Prealdent Bherman today. The bill bow goee to the prealdent. WABHINOTON. Aug. II. Deaplte object ob-ject I one by Benator Bailer of Teaaa. the aenata today took up tha Aplaona,-Hew Mexico atatebood reeolutlon. |