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Show Worried Man Ends Domestic Trouble By Hanging Self SALT LAKE. Aug. 2 - Stirred by her husbands fierce jealousy into 0 decision to leave him. Mrs. Walter B Phelps found her plaus n i)d "I denly futile by death yesterday when -.he went into an upstairs room to pa k ! iip for there, hanging by a stout wire to a bedpost, was the body of th husband. He had hanged himself. The tragedy took place in their home, 677 S. Fifth East street, shortly before noon Unreasoning jealousy, the wife ex- plained, bad prompted Phelps to the deed. It was this same manifestation 1 of Jealousy, she declared, which and determined her to leave him and n ul forced the grim rlim.ix to their affalri-- The couple had been married le than a year and, according to neigh born, had engaged in numerous quar- I re Is. The dissension and its unexpected j ('enouement were briefly described by Blanche, the wife's 1 1 year-old daughter daugh-ter by a former marriage. "Mother said she wouldn't stand it any longer." the girl related. "She was going to leave, she nald. and sister sis-ter and I were to go with her Papa I went upstair? and i little later mai ms vent up to pack her trunks. Slfl found papa hanging from a bedpoat.4 on . |