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Show uu- PREACHER'S WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE Salt Lake, July 25. Despondent because be-cause of failing health. Mrs. Lillian Dean Allen, 32 years old, colored, wife of Rev John H. Allen, pastor of Cal-varv Cal-varv Baptist church, committed suicide sui-cide at her home. 59 Ninth East streot. yesterday afternoon. She locked herself her-self In a bath room and turned on the gas. She left a message which is believed believ-ed to fully explain the deed. This was enclosed In a sealed envelope addressed address-ed to her mother, Mrs. H. T. Jones, 263 West Thirty-fifth street, New York. It bore a postage stamp and her husband ordered the letter mailed unopened. When Allen entered his home at fi o'clock last night he was attracted by the odor of gas. Throwing open the bath room door he saw the body of his wife. Stumbling out of his homo to the front lawn he called for help. Neighbors summoned the police. Motorcjcle Patrolman A. C. Husbands. Dr. H. B. Sprague and Patrolman Thornton Jackson, coloned, arrived, and the body was removed to the mortuary mor-tuary of Undertaker Eber W. Hall. "I wont to Liberty park with my wife this noon," said Allen. "Toward 3 o'clock she complained of not feeling feel-ing well and said she would go home, write some letters and prepare dinner. I escorted her to a car and went back into the park with members of my congregation. She had been despondent despond-ent because of poor health, but that she should take her own life comes as a complete surprise. Mrs. Allen was born In Anaheim, Cnl May 21, 1880, Shortly after Allen Al-len was ordained they mnrried at Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Cal. About four years ago they settled in Salt Lake, where he became pastor of the church. Allen about a year ago went to California. Then he went to Butte. Mont, where he took tho pulpit at the Bethel Baptist Bap-tist church. With his wife, he later returned to Salt Lake. Beside her husband she Is survived by her mother, Mrs. II. T. Jones of New York and a stepfather, H. T. Jones of Marysville. Cal. A sister. Mrs. J. V Scott, lives at 12S3 Pacific street, San Francisco |