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Show LEAPS FROM ROOF TO DEATH Prominent Utahn Chooses Horrible Death as Result of Financial Reverses. Suit Lako City. David S. Murray, formerly general manager or tho Ilocky Mountain Bell Telephone company com-pany in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, leaped rrom the roor of the Dosoret Nntlonnl bnnk building, corner cor-ner First South nnd Mnin streets, Wednesday morning at C o'clock, and was Instantly killed. Despondency resulting from llnnnclnl difficulties and tho excessive use of alcoholic stimulants wns tho cause or tho suicide. sui-cide. The skull was crushed by tho Impact and the lert leg wns broken and the bones Jammed into the body. Tho corpso wns otherwise mutilnted. Mr. Murray was born In Kentucky, and wns about 48 years or age. At the age of 19 years ho came to Utah ror a visit with his uncle, Governor Ell Murray, who was appointed to tho territorial ter-ritorial governorship of Utah In 1880, and reappointed in 1884. Mr. Murrny remained In Utah and hud gained a high position In business and social circles In Utah and nil tho west. He is survived by a wife and a daughter. Mr. Murray was recognized throughout the United States ns an export In all that which relates to tolephono service. He was tho Inventor In-ventor of numerous devices now in uso by tho Bell, and under his supervision super-vision many valuable Improvements wore Installed. In 1907 Mr. Murray was married to Miss Olga Mnrlx, a sister or Mrs. Wilbur Wil-bur W. Flagg and nleco or Commander Comman-der Marlx, who served on the board or Inquiry In connection with the Maine disaster in Havana harbor. Ono daughter, Genevieve, wns born or the union. |