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Show JAMES PAM EOUi DEAD IN A DAI AI READ OF A STORE The dead body of James Parry, a resident of Willard, Box Elder county, coun-ty, was found in a barn at the rear of Goddardj8 olgar store 2335 Washington Wash-ington avenue, about 8 o'clock this morning. There were no marks of violence on the body and death wa3 attributed to acute alcoholism, it having been known that the man was on a protracted spree. The body was found by Joe Waters, a negro porter, employed In the God-dard God-dard Cigar store, who inormed Howard How-ard Goddard of his discovery. Officers Mohlman and Hearn responded re-sponded to the call for the police and, after an investigation, had the body removed to the Larkin mortuary. ludge W. H. Reeder of the municipal munici-pal court was also notified and an inquest in-quest will probably be held. Parry was laBt seen alive about 6 30 P. m. yesterday by William Mathers and George Callahan, In an express wagon driven by a man named Eddy. Mathers and Callahan were standing near the corner of Washington avenue ave-nue and Twenty-Becond street when the wagon passed and the two men saw Parry in the bottom of it apparently appar-ently Ih a helpless condition from drink. Eddy was driving north and it was thought that he was proceed-ing proceed-ing to take Parry to his home in Wil-lnrd, Wil-lnrd, and the manner in which he got to the place where he was found is not known, as up to press time Eddy had not been located. The dead man was well known In Ogden and in the northern part of tho state. He servod for a number of years as the county attorney of Box Elder county and was considered well up in his profession. Of late years, however, he had been drinking hoavily and had been in the local courts a number of limes on charges of drunkenness. drunk-enness. He is survived by a wife, eight children chil-dren and four sisters. His wife was formerly Eliza A. Cardon. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cardon of Willard, Wil-lard, and the surviving children are: Marian. Boyd, Leland, Victor, Russell. Rus-sell. Gleuden, Carma and Robert The sisters are Mrs. Marian Johnson of Ogden. Mrs. Isabelle Dakon nnd Mrs, Janie Nebeker ot "Willard, and Mrs. Lucy Doyle of Tucson, Ariz. |