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Show TBent 1 Police Succeed in Partly Solv- 1 ing Mystery of Dead I Negro. . 1 The mystery surrounding the death I of E. B. Howard, aged negro, whose . I body was found in the Weber river, I near the mouth of Wobor canyon, has 1, I been partially cleared up, the police H say, and from present indications it ; M seems that the death was accidental. M Howard waa at the city jail durinq last week, and stayed over night as H a lodger. He gave his age as 53 years, H and claimed to have property In Salt fl Lake at Third East and Fourth South streets, "He had difficulty in seeing. despite thick lensed glasses, the policf, say, and made several inquiries no; IH only at the police station but at the H county sheriff's office .regarding cer- H tain money which he claimed had beec H stolen from him. In the opinion of the , H police nd sheriff's department,- the H man was demented. H Nels Flygare, of Ogdcn, claimed thai J H he saw the man about half or, j H hour before the discovery of the body H was reported. He was about to give W the old man a lifr, he said, but the ol-J ' man refused to ride. iritis ir-itis the theory of the police that th r 'C man, whose eyesight was extre$iel 1.' S poor, fell off the roadway into the fli' ' I river probably an hour before his body j t' was found, and In so falling, hit his , - fJH head on some sharp object. -MB |