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Show MYS1ERY IN SUICIDE OF SALTLAKER FranK Kelner,' Traveling Salesman, Sends Bullet Through Brain. ON LAWN OF CITY AND COUNTY BUILDING Wife and Son Visiting in Los Angeles ; No Explanation Explana-tion for the Deed. Frank Kslnsr, trarsllng sal asm aa for Ball Brothers Co., Dobuq.ua, la, and for ths M. S. SmlU Wholesale Dry Goods company, with offices la ins J nontax no-ntax block, Mala and rirst Booth streets, committed suicide by shootlcf himself thrones the hssd with a .41-. .41-. .. - sailers ists4s, to ta est asva ssvaty building fronds at a point oa ths lawn about 100 fsst north of the north sn-. sn-. trues, early this moraine. Death was Instantaneous, ths ballet passing completely com-pletely through tlx hsad, plowing a hols through ths brain, - E M. Rose, a carrier 'for ths Tribune, Trib-une, was crossing the gronnds at tea , minutes after S o'clock when be saw , the dead man. ' He ran up Btats street and notified a poliremaa. About the same time Don Davidson, another Trionne carrier, crossed the lawn and saw Keiaer. lying on the ground and ha notified the night watchman: of the city and county building, who la tarn telephoned to police headquartera. When Police Hergeant John J. Bob-arts Bob-arts and Patrolman Frank Riley arrived ar-rived they saw Keiner's body oa the lawn with a revolver still clutched in the rigIA band. Ths bullet entered the head about an inch above and in front of the right ear, iust above the temple, tem-ple, and passed norisontally through the head, emerging from a nearly cor responding position on the left side. In the auto patrol the hodv was taken to O'Dontiell a Co.'s underlaklna satab-' satab-' llshment. where it will be held pendlnsr adrirse from ths widow who la In Le Anaalea. , Vila la Los Angelas. ' Frank Kelner waa one of the best - known and moat popular traveling aales-men aales-men with headuuartare Hi title city, and his friends are at a loss to account for ' any cause thai would Impel him to take his own Mfe. He waa S7 yeare old and lived at :o K Ureal with his wife aad Son. Penrose Kelner. 7 years old. Mrs. Kelner and the bnv went to foe Angeles ahuut two months ago. Mr. Keloer was depressed occasionally) alnca their ile pan ore. but waa generally In the best of spirits Close personal friends sav that there ma have been domestic troubles, but as Kelner was reticent about hie personal arfslre, nothing dennlte was ever saht bv him concerning his family life that would Indicate that be waa unhappy In his home, though he Is aald ts have In-.denniieW In-.denniieW hinted that his happiness waa not complete. Mr. Kelner had been boarding at hotels ho-tels alnce hia family, left for the south- I-' II. BaUev. local representative o4 the lxs Angelea Saddlerv and Flndlnga com-pany. com-pany. a close personal friend of Mr. Kelner.- Is now In Iam Ansetes at Ihe home office of hie company. He has been wired to hr O'llunnelt a Co. and haa - been asked to find Mrs. Kelner and break Ihe news of her husband's death to her. Haa uocseaful Trip. Kemer returned to the city a week often of-ten deye ago from a successful selling trip through Wyoming, ahlch waa a part of his terrllor. He seemed In the best of spirits sjter this trip and had apparently appar-ently been more thsn usually suocesarul. He left for thla trip Immediately after his family went to l.oe Angeles. He was a monev maker and was considered a high class salesman. Thomas Freed, prescript Ion clerk In the Owl drug store. Main and First South streets, -waa a close personal friend of "1 cannot understand why ha should kill . himself." said Mr. Freed thle morning. "Kelner waa a successful man In his business sod had manv friends Ha was oa ihe square all Ihe time. Hia word wae slwavs good. He was a man of fine personality and plesssat disposition. He was not a Heaw drinker In anv sense of Ihe word, though he occasionally took a drink. That could not have been the cause of his act. I had known him three or four veers and. always found him the same. He had not seemed lo ke brood. Ins over anv trouMse. lie waa reticent concerning hia pureiv personal affairs and I never heard anything hut the meat vesue Intimation of famllv trouble. I cannot account tor his act." |