| Show W. W H. H RIDING MEETS DEATH BY SUICIDE Tho body of WilHam WilliamH H- H Riding Riding was found under an automobile in fn the yard at the tho rear of the Delta Delta Delto Del Del- ta to Monday morning death having been beon caused by a 1 wound self sel inflicted with an automatic pis pis- tol bout four weeks ago he ho left Delta and went to Los Angeles where he ho stayed with Hober J. J Cook Cook returned to Delta Della two week rs r. r ago figo and went wont to work WOI k in the bakery laving Mr Riding in California It ItIs Itt ItI Is thought that Mr Riding came to tn t I Fillmore by auto stage At BoWen Holden ho mailed to his liis son Lionel a letter containing an order to tran transfer some mining stock to his two sons also alsor r thirty dollars In an n curr i 1 hr letH let let- H ter tel contained no message other than Ulan man manthe the brief brier transfer of the stock Postmaster Allred saw deceased deceased deceased de de- de- de ceased sitting on the steps of the McCornick Mc- Mc Cor Cornick nick store about twenty seven-twenty on Saturday evening The bakery was wasn n not t open for business Sunday but Lionel Riding the son and Jerome Jeromo Cook the proprietor of the bakery were both in the building during the afternoon and pa ed the back premises but did not see the body lying there Late Sunday evening some little girls playing near the store reported to their mother that thata a drunken man was lying under a acar acar acar car and a. a cousin of the dece deceased wd it was a drunken person person said Let him be I On Monday morning Heber Cook noticed the form and upon close inspection in- in saw that it was Mr 11 Riding He was lying face down with his left lefthand lefthand hand band under his breast He had fired ired d the tho fatal shot with writh his right hand band the t bullet passing J right through head Physicians believe the deed was comitted Saturday night Deceased who was four fifty years old is survived by his widow Mrs Annie Riding two SOns eons Lionel and Gerald and one married daughter Mrs Jeroma Jerome Cook Also a brother Job H. H Riding of Delta William H. H Riding came cam to Delta Della I I years ago r from om Panguitch P where ho he was well known He was In Inthe inthe inthe the cattle business while in Pan Pan- At Delta Della he farmed later latel moving into town and when his son- son law in-law bought the bakery baked both Mr 11 and Mrs 1 Riding worked in It There is no known motive for th the rash act e except that those who had been much in his company compan had not noticed no- no t t.- t. that he had been unusually quiet of ot late as if brooding over overBorne trouble some Borne r Funeral eral services for the deceased were held In the Delta First ward chapel under the direction of First Counselor E. E Engene Gardner The choir sang Rock of or Ages followed by prayer by E E. D. D Knight I Need Thee Every Hour flour was ren- ren dred B by oy the choir The Tho speakers were Joshua II H. Cook M. M M. M Steele Steel and William N. N Gardner The Misses Viola and Mae Mao Bookstand rendered a vocal duett Just Beyond the tho Veil of Years The rhe closing number number was We Ve Shall Meet Meat Beyond the River by the choir The benediction was pronounced pro pro- pronounced pronounced pro pro- by J J. J Avery Bishop Interment wa was in Delta Della Delta cemetery where the tho grave was dedicated by II H. II I E. E Maxfield |
