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Show DROWNED MAN'S BODY NOT YET IDENTIFIED Salt Lake, Aug 1 Without being identified, the body of the man found In a canal three miles south of Sandy, Thursday evening, was buried In fhp Midvale cemetery a6t eenlng, the decomposed state or the bod: making It impossible to keep It longer Last night Mrs. C. L Roberts ot Nineteenth North and Ninth West streets telephoned to the county Jaii sainc that she thought the man might be her husband, who left home six weeks ago and had not been heard from since The general description of Roberts and the dead man are sufficiently suf-ficiently alike that the wife B theorv may be corrert, it is said Roberts, however, was dressed in a blue serge suit when he left home while tne body of the dead man was attired in a gray suit In the baggage of the dead man. found at Bingham, however, how-ever, a blue shirt with white stripes was found, such a shirt as Mrs. Roberts Rob-erts said hr husband wore when he left home The personal effects of the dead man will be shown to Mrs. Roberts today to determine, if possible. If the dead man could have been her hus band. It is thought that, though be ma have bought diffon-iit clothe: since leaving home. Mrs. Roberts; would be able to recognize any that he took from home. In his baggage at Bingham were found two 6uits ot clothes, one dark blue or black and the other brown. |