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Show Soldier Ends Life When Wife Threatens To Get a Divorce SALT I AKE. Aug 7- Elm eel Lee, 30 e.irs of age, a soldier who returned from France last Saturday, was found at 8:30 o'clock last niqht lyine in the doorway inside of his home at 2"0 I South Eighth West street. He shot blmseli through the head the police .say. William Chapman, residing next I door, discovered the body when he looked through the window A 38 cal ; iber revolver was lying beside the body. j According to his brother, William Lee, the soldier was despondent be- I cause of domestic trouble, his wife ihavlng threatened to secure a divorce. She was about to leave for Wyoming j last night before the body of Lee was discovered. No effort was made to detain her Lee left the key of his home with Mrs chapman this morning, telling her ', to give it to his wife when she r' nirned. He appeared soon after and I requested the key saying that he had not stayed away as long as he had expected. ex-pected. About 11 30 o'clock yesterday ;morninr: Mrs Cnapman heard the sound of a shot, but thought at the I time that it was caused by the puncturing punc-turing of an automobile tire. She told her husband when he came home and the discovery of the bodv followed. oo |