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Show THINKS THE MORMONS B1DJT Mrs. Selma Neuendorff of Berlin, Gormany, wife of Arthur Neuendorff, who committed suicide In the county jail at Ogden last February, cannot believe that hei husband did the rash act, but, on tho contrary, thinks ho was "beaten" and "choked" to death by the Mormons. The lady writes to the Imperial German Consul. G. Helm, at Denver, Colorado, advising him of her fears and asking him to mako an investigation investi-gation STic states that hor husband could not have committed suicide for only a short time boforc the reported re-ported death, he had written her that he had ?300 saved for the payment ! of fare for herself and child to Utah and that In his letter he expressed no feeling of discouragement. To clear the matter and assure Mrs. Neneudorff that her husband committed com-mitted suicide, the German consul has requested Fred J Kiesel to make a careful investigation regarding the circumstances connected with Ncuen-dorff's Ncuen-dorff's death In pursuance of the request of the consul, a death certificate certifi-cate is being mado out by Undertaker Under-taker 1 arkln, verified by County Clerk Dec and Sheriff Harrison and a photograph pho-tograph of the coll with the wire attached at-tached to the steam pipe on the ceiling with which the man hung himself has been takeu, all of which will be sent to the consul, who, in turn, will forward the Information to Mrs. Neuendorff. The photograph of the man shows plainly the marks of the small baling wire which pierced his neck, it will he rather a grue-bomo grue-bomo photograph, but, nevertheless, convlncln? of the form of death. Aside from thig' information, her mother, Mrs. O. Lieffler and her brother Fritz Meiselbach, hae written writ-ten the woman of the suicide and havo told hor that Arthur left his two children chil-dren with them for care and keeping, keep-ing, making no provision for them and that, also, ho was thought to have had something to do with the murder mur-der of a Mrs. Groff of Szft Lake, immediately im-mediately prior to his suicide, whlcn, together with the loss of the $300 of which ho wrote his wife, taken, presumably by the Groff woman, suggested sug-gested a motive for his rash act. The letter addressed to tho Gorman Gor-man consul by Mrs. Neuendorff offers no suggestion as to tho disposition of the remains of her husband and says nothing about the care of the two children now in Ogden with their grandmother. |