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Show SALT LAKE THIEF SELLS PiANO; DEAL NIPPED IN 1VO Salt Lake, Jan. ?. Ueorge Ross. is : slsUtut superintendent of the Utah di-, di-, vision of the Oregon Short Line, re ! turned yesterday from a ten-day vu I cation spent In San Francisco U) find that during the absence of himself and bl8 family, a burglar had been lodging lodg-ing at the Kosa home. 823 Third av-; av-; en tie Later Mr. floss discovered that the I burglar had bcIU the family piano and was preparing lo ship away the household furniture- A supply of food Including canned soods and plum pud ding, left in the pantry, bad been eaten eat-en by the self-invited guest. Mr. Ross notified the police and It was while he and Detectives Lyon and Gillespie were taking an inventory inven-tory of the depredations of the thief that a moving van drove up to the house for the piano, which the driver declared had been sold from that ad dress. Mr Ross assured the man that he had sold no piano The van driver insisted t tint he had been sent to fetch it and t- estimate the cost of packlug tbG other furniture for shlp- ment. I The detectives followed the clew land found that a man who signed him self "Gordon .1 Ross" had sold the I piano to the Fisher second hand company, com-pany, 165 South West Temple street He had given a receipt dated Decern her 31. acknowledging payment of $10 on the piano On January 1. accord-ling accord-ling to the detectives. H C. Fisher I visited t ho house, was shown the piano, pi-ano, and agreed to take It for flOO more Tht money was paid In the form of a cherk and another receipt, now In the hands of the detectives, was given Mr Fisher proved his good faith ii: the deal when he showed the detectives detec-tives a letter left with him by the man who sold the piano. The letter wns dated San Frnncisco, December 24, and was signed "George." It addressed ad-dressed the bearer as "Dear Gordon," and contained full directions for the sale of the piano and for the packing and shipping of the other furnlturo to San Frani-isco. The letter was in an envelope on which the San Francisco aud Salt Lake posi marks had been obliterated and it was impossible to decipher the dates. From Mr Fisher the detectives detec-tives got a gootl description of the man and put in a strenuous day yesterday, yes-terday, looking for him Other than thp food consumed by the burglar nothing rxcept clothing. Including four suits belonging to Mr Ross, was found missing Mr Ross said last night that his wife had her jewelry with her In San Francisco, whence she has not yet returned. DESPONDENT TAILOR ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Salt Iake. Jan. Sj Ben Lobbcn berg, 45 years of jge. a tailor, At tempted suicide by drinking carbolic acid in the presence of his family nt their home. 1 1-2 Bcllevlew place, un Sixth South betv. ccn Fifth and Slith East streets shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday After drinking th- deadly drug, he went to bed and was unconscious within a lew minutes Dr. Warren Benjamin, who lives m the neighborhood, neighbor-hood, w.is summoned by the fright ened wife and gave first aid After ward. Lobbenberg was removed to St Mark's hospital Tt Is thoucht that be has some chance for recovery if com plication? do not occur Mrs Lobbenberg says that her husband hus-band wns subject to spells of despondency despon-dency in which he often seemed to be irresponsible for what he did Last Tuesday he is said to have threatened the life of his son. 12 years of ape. "I don't think he is responsible tei what he does, for I am convinced that his mind is not right." said Mrs Lobbenberg Lob-benberg last night. "I was divorced from him lasi March on a charge of cruelty, but married him agrin In August Au-gust for the sake of mv three little children." Lobbenberg was employed in a tailor tail-or shop on East Fourth South street, but did not go to work yesterday j morning l eaving home late he returned re-turned at noon and took the poison ( Discouragement over financial dflfl lenities is thought by his wife to have had something to do with hl6 act. WELL KNOWN SALT LAKE MAN IS DEAD 1 Salt Lake. Jan 3.--When W O. Norrell died yesterda there passed from this earth a man who was in even sense true to himself and lo Ins lellow man His death Is a dls tlnct loss This is so not because he j attained any great fame as fame is measures by the world's standards, or because be accumulated vast wealth or because builded great structures and great works it is so because whltherso he went there he cAst about him the bonlcn Influence of a trul. great chnraejer of an honest heart of a mind without gullr and of a soul radiating light. T)oc" Norrell lived his life, in such a fashion thai, none there be but who will say of him that he was the no-Meat no-Meat of men Friends by tho hun dreda enjoyed his society and dHlpht ed in bis quaint humor. Southern born and bred. "Doc' Norrel n0s MUed all of the pleasing attributes with which the south endows ber children chil-dren He was genial, courteous. rrI. lani and withal an accompliKheri tleman. Death came yesterday afternoon at his apartments, No. 4 the Tuck. Pneumonia Pneu-monia was the caus? He had been 111 only a brief space The hodv B nt the O'Donnell undertaking establishment estab-lishment Funeral arrangements are held In abeyance pending tho receipt of instructions from Mr. NorreU'n brother, Judge A. G. Norrell. al J son, Miss. |