Show C CI B CRONER SHOT DEAD IN i HOTEL ROOM Slayer His Unknown Com Coin Companion panion Who Has I Escaped I OFFICE IN Head of Metal Extraction and Refining Company Charles B Croner president of or the Metal Extraction and Refining company compan aith Ith offices in us the First National Bank building Ogden as tin shot to death In a Salt Lake Lako hotel last night His Ills slayer es- es escaped escaped es escaped C B D Croner was as president of ot the Metals Metal Extraction and Helloing company which has hils headquarters in K Ogden g len and a a plant in 10 Salt Lake The company ha of offices Ices In ftc I First National bank building hel hee he e eTHO Tao THO 1 0 years ago Mr Croner Collie came here from Oregon where he ho hd h n a sear ear after leaving O Angele He resided re in Ogden It a acar Car car nith M 1 Worton orton CanI Can 13 I w w l f w JI r company lie was wa In ins r a L formula for for- forthe the or of gold and other precious metals an and l canto came here herc for the tha purpose of or- or organizing or organizing his company GOUS GOZS TO S I Ill LAKE LUct Last year ear after the comp n was as as asin uIn In operation he I left t Ogden and made his home In Salt Lake nh r he he would be closer to th the operating plant it was said He Tie cam came 3 to Ogden frequently upon s since thit th time Croner visited the Worton orton lam tam lly lIy here on New Nest Teats Teat's day he lIS ia a guest n of the family for ft n I dinner At that time he JIn In excellent Its an and l as far tar 4 kno n had no enemies Ire iru ix IN C He Is said to have a niCe nite in 10 LoI 1 Angeles A suit for tor divorce Is nu foil pending In the courts t It as as said al l t They had no children Mr sues as about 45 years year of age It wa sua said Mr Worton Vorton who nho Is vice tice Ice ident dent of the company Is now In Los Angeles Sumner P Nelson s an and treasurer of o the company said n itt know knew little of ot the private ate attain ul Mr Croner Mr lIr Nelson said salol Croner s a death will have havo no ct ct on the operations of ot the bORY OF OP CHIU SALT LAKE LAzE Jan 10 Police FelIce Police are hunting for an unknown man wit shot and killed C B Croner In a a do rooming house late laal iasi night Croner has been identified d das as a prominent mining formerly who formerly lived lI d In Los Angeles Cat Cal and whose wife suite resides u inu now Shortly before midnight I were called rolled to the hotel and ac- ac according according ac according cording to the story told b bv Ray R the proprietor Croner I land and a man companion rented ii room They appeared to be the influence of liquor the ho hotel hotelman el elman man said and were quarreling Shortly before midnight he be beald bealda I a shot hot and Croner's companion fl fled 1 to the street ll CRONI-ll POUND DEW DEI t When the room was entee Croner's body was found on tha tho lit floor His heart had been pierced Ib b a bullet from front a small call ore instantaneous pistol and death wa J Croner was WIlS president nt and nd chief metallurgist of the Metals Extrac- Extrac Extraction r tion and Refining company pj I Utah and according to the con con- concern's concern's co cerns cern's cerns cern's mining engineer H A Straus wu Was wa one of the most bril brilliant mining engineers engineer and metal metal- metallurgists metallurgist In the west Straus lays lay Croner's Croner death ito to a abad bad bad companion and a chance chanc drink Police are ar holding and his wife and In the th meantime have han started a thorough search arch of the city for Croner Croner's assailant Friends Friend of the deceased who wh was Willi Willia wasa wa a graduate of or Stanford and about 40 cO years year old oid say py y theY can throw no light on the murder Apparently robbery was wal wa not the motive and the dead deal man wu was wa not ot known known to have hav h had any enemies f F |