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Show POLICE SEARCH FOR A WOMAN'S BODY Salt Lake, Aug. 7. Carl A Carlson, Inspector of police, and Tatrolman Arthur Merrick spent the clay yesterday yester-day dragging and searching the Jordan Jor-dan river in a vain effort to find some trace of the body of the woman who penned a note saying that she intended to commit suicide. The note was found Thursday evening on the Fifth South street bridge by William Kingsley, a carpenter, who was walking walk-ing to Salt Lake from Garfield With the aid of nets and grappling irons, Inspector Carlson and Patrolman Patrol-man Merrick searched the river bottom bot-tom for nearly two miles below the bridge and notified people living along the banks to be on the lookout for a body. Inspector Carlson said last night that It was impossible to determine whether tho note was genuine or the work of some practical joker He Is inclined to believe tho woman committed com-mitted suicide, bu is at a loss to account ac-count for the whereabouts of her body. The Jordan river is at the present time very low, but there are many deep holes' along its course where a person might drown. Then, too, bodies bod-ies have been known to stay below the surface of the water for day3 and weeks before coming to the top. Unless further trace of the woman wom-an or circumstances tending to Indicate Indi-cate that she actually committed suicide sui-cide Is found today the police will abandon the search after notifying persons living near the mouth of the rner to look out for the body The case Is one of the most mystifying mys-tifying of its kind recorded in recent police annals The woman blamed a man for her death. She said he had mined her life and then deserted her. She said that she had tried to commit com-mit suicide by swallowing poison, but had failed, and had been unable to buy more poison. Then she apparently appar-ently determined to drown herself oo |