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Show MARY GRUNER IS SLAIN Salt Lake Woman Found Dead in Bed in Her Apartments in New York City. Coroner Declares That She Was Murdered, as He Found Indications That Death Was Due to Strangulation-Thousands of Dollars-Worth Dollars-Worth of Jewelry and Dresses in Iter Room-What Was Pound by Her Bedside. New York tpt jj-The hods of .Mary Oruner formerls of Salt Iike was fount dead In her room ut 117 West Ports eighth street todas Bhe wns emploseil n the dressmaking e. tabllshment of Mmo Oitman. IS West Thlrty-nlnth street At the same tlmo she had thousands of dollars worth of Jowelrs nnd dresses In her room mil was diessed as though haxlng plents of mones According to Mmo Ontrnin the woman wo-man came to her about two weeks ago from Silt Like cits She recurel board at Mrs HmllySnedds She took the best room In the place and was thought to he rich LI.Tlnrt PUOM SALT LAKE She worked steadlls In the shop un-111 un-111 about a week ngo when there came i letter to her in care of her emploser On the corner of n10 enx elope wns prlntel Walker Urns , Drs floods Salt I.ike n was postmarked hilt Lake beptemher 13th ALMOST KAI.Vrr.D OVRlt NHWS When Mme Oatman gaxe It to her the soung Womin opened the letter In the former s presence There wns noth-Ing noth-Ing In It but n nowspiper cllpplnr When she read it sho became xery pale and almost fainted She wis unnl le to work any more nnd left the shop She nexer returned. HMPLOI Hit CALLS AT Itorsn TodiS Mme Oatman went to her boardlng-houso to Inquire whs she had not come to woik Mrs Hneed told her that the girl hid been seen about the house sesterday lis one of the other boarders, but she admitted that she had not seen her for scleral days di;ad in nnrt nno. Together the two women went to her roorn They coul 1 not get In and sent for Detecthe Losmeser. He broke In the door. Miss Gruner w is on the bed fully dressed Her arms wero nboxe her head. Her face was black and so were her arms to her elbow Sho appeared ap-peared to haxe been dead sexeral dass jound iiv unn nnusiDc 11$ the bed on n chair was a paper on which were some white crsstnls There wis nlso on tho bed a clipping which hid come In the letter from Salt Lake It was headel 'Secretly Wedded" Wed-ded" It told of the nnrrlago of Kred T MrOurrln a liwser. to Mrs I'stellc McCrsstnl In Colorado Springs Inst Mas The secret had Just leiked out and come kind friend hid nppnrenlly sent Miss Oruner the news snwtcii op nun. nprrcrs A further seaich of the xvoman s ef. fects disclosed n torn store bill which on being fitted together showed It had been made out to Miss Omner by Hoy Watrnus of 07 East Thlid South Mreet Silt lake Cits It was for 16 75 for lettering ft boje There wns also pit of a. bill from Dr. H Stlefel of Salt Lake. CORONER DrCLAnr? IT MUUDRIt Coioner lackson declnted tonight the girl hid been murdered Ho found blond In her mnulh nn 1 other In llcatlons thnt sho had been strangled Cigar ashes weto found on tho mantel nnd floor, Indicating tho recent presence of n man in the room THEORY OP POLICE Purther Inxcstlgatlon Into the deith of Miss Oruner satisfies tho police tint It win duo to mtural causes though of a somexvhat peculiar nnturc Their theors Is thnt the soung womnn In n xlnlent fit of emotion hid buist ft bloo 1 xessel Thl.fi '." Mc0""-n "' "alt Lake of ?. co,m'"'J lh thedlsrmerx rirl. ,' r""l",er fllPPln In the dead Klrls mom announcing the marrbme r Mr Mc.lurrl.1 l Mr, Ks" lie"" "chry. Jul has caused some of tht girl s infwt lelleie fe commute 1 Ulcl le How eer i woman who seem, to haxe been ''va ,fr,rn,,,if Miw f"-""" hSS was found list night and said tint It "i" not n HOKE PXCELLENT III PI TATIO.N Mr Clrnham of Walkers store stated sestenlis that the dead girl was nt expert skirt maker mil had glien e, rr-ilent satisfaction while In their em plos Her first exi erlence In that line was got at a (nop belonging to Mudime Oatman nt 18 West Thlrts ninth street New -jerk cits Mr Clrnham sild there was nlw.iss nn opening for her here If she committed sulci le It Is snld her motlie for doing so mis not the lick of money or emplosment nnd It Is slid thnt she had considerable property In this ilrlnltv In nd lltlon to Icing n heais stockholder In scleral mining corporntlons IV POSSI-SSIOV or FORTPNP So fir an known the woman had nn relntlons except possibly nn uncle who It li thought, llxes somewhere In the Pist s she spoke xers little nhout herself no one kmw nnythliig of her fiimlls, though through the dnth of n relatlie In New x.ork hexerul months n(,o she lifetime the pnftwetittor of several sev-eral thousands of doll irs but only re rently his the estate lieeii gotten In shape to dellxer the fortune to her This Is glxen ns the rcison for her sudden depirture She was urged to remiln here tho compans being xery leluctint about parting with her services ser-vices MOTIVE POR A MURDER The fact that she wns well suppllel with mones Is cnn-ldered siitllcbnt mo tlxo for the taklnr of her life by n murderer. Sho left this city August 30th |