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Show izorr insists he WAS NOT DROWNED Denver. Colo.. April 12. L. K Zott. a traveling salesman for the Wyan dotte Soda company of Ford. Mieb is very much alive, notwithstanding the finding of a suicide note bearing his signature, insid. of a bottle floating float-ing in Utah lake. "I am simply the victim of a prac tical joke by my friends," said Zott. in his apartments at i:;&6 Pearl street, this evening. when pressed for an explanation of the report that he had probably taken his life. T have never had the slightest idea of suicide " "I remember It all. now," he continued. con-tinued. 'The incident took place two weeks ago yesterday, when I was one of an auto party to Utah lake We had spent the day there and. after lunching in tho evening, were preparing for the return trip to Salt Lake City. One of our party wrote a note which he placed on the Inside of a beer bottle, corked It and throw It far out Into the lake I can remember remem-ber now that there was much merriment merri-ment over the incident, and that 1 was not taken Into the confidence of, I the man who wrote the note." Zott is so busy eelebrating the arrival ar-rival of the first baby in his home that he displayed no anger because Oi the report "What's the use" he queried. "They re all my friends, and It's on me." |