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Show 1 1 BODY OF LIVESTOCK BUYER FOUND IN jWEBER I CORPSE FOUND I IN RIVER NEAR I PACKING PLANT 1 Body Identified as That of Sig Degen, Livestock i Buyer i iIN WATER TEN DAYS I Wounds Found on Head; J Left Marion Hotel I February Fifth The body of Sigmund Degen, Uv- j H stock speculator, who is said to have f H lost approximately S60.000 the past $H year In II . estock speculations, was nK- 9H en out of the Weber river this morn- The body was removed to the Kn- fl j Kendall undertaKing parlors pcn'l.n-I pcn'l.n-I the holding of an Inquest this after-noon. after-noon. Or. Roy H Wilson, city and county physician wr.o viewed the bod) Ion the banka of the river was unable I to say whether wounds on the he:,d had been caused atter the body wu-. ' In the river or before. This will be H determined at the inquest. jjegen nas oeen missing sin. e r n uK'H S at which time he left a note lu his H room at the Marlon hotel telling the. '. H h 1 1 i" ;i i e 'id.: the room until Bl he returned. He nad a few day? prior TmHI i ') his departure been given a state- Hj ment by the hotel clerk. RAD BEEN DESPONDENT I According to livestock men at the WM hotel lhat knew Hegen he hnd been PVfl in a de!ondent mood for about three bVfl weeks prior to his departure. t Ho was seen at the l.'nlon stuck yards about February 5 by John Gal- 9H higher a livestock man of Denver Cold, who positively identified the body this morning, by Jack 1ee of the fl l.'nion Livestock company by lo ll Peck of Logan, by F C. Erw'n. a hv- jaB Stock man of Ugden an I Ux M R, Hb Bryan, 282 Patterson avenue. "flH Mi Bryan stated that he was quite HI sure he had seen Degen in the stock- AVJ vards about ten days ago TRQVGHT IT WAS WI.MAI, I Tlie body was first seen In the water on Sunday about 280 feet below the wagon bridge that crosses the Weber fivj river just to the south and west of Ivfll the Ogden Packing & Provision com- BJ pany's plant It wa-s seen by Slbcrt f BJ Johnson. 'if0 Reeves avenue, employ BJ ed as a blacksmith at the. Ogden Pack- BJ Ing fc Provision company tBj Johnson said that It appeared to be hi i ol B dead animal and thac BBJ It was so far from the bank and so I I deeD In the water that he paid no more attention to It. B Ho noticed it this morning and upon fl further investigation djacpverel that fl It was the bodv of a human. He Im- fl mediately informed G. P. Madsen, su- j fl psrintendent of the Ogden Packing fl Provision company, who In turn called j H the police. f BODV IS RKMOVEl) , The body waa removed from the ,H water with a grappling hook, by Polics 4m Chauffeur Bert Crites end Detect lTC W. A. Jones. Before it w.m removetl to tho undertaking iiaiiors it was :u- spected h Dr. Wilson and County At- flfl 'r.rnrv Dxvld J. Wilson. flfl When searched on tiie bank the body flfl woicn was wen aressej contained in the pockets of the clothing a bank flfl book on the Delta National bank. ,iej- flj ta ' o!o. H 2T in silver and a new flfl memorandum book of the Ogdn Live- afl stock Commission company, a pip" flfl and tho usuM assortment of odds and fl ends carried In a man's pockets Ther fl wa.s also a card bearing the name of fl Sldnej I . Rosl, Grand Junction. Colo Degen was about 'iv feet eight inches in height weighed about 14". pounds had blue oves his teeth gold I filled md was about 48 years old' fl He is said to be a brother of Wi4- H liam and Morris Degen, a prominent livestock firm operating at the Union ;.H livestock yards at Denver. Colo. Degen Wm pas i single man. according to his SH acquaintances hero. His friends said flfl he was not a drinking man. gfl Tho Inquest to determine the cause flfl of the death will be held this afternoon l at the council chamber in the city sffll DENVER. Colo.. Feb. 21. Sig Do- Kfl gen. whoso body was reported found all in Ogden today, formerly was a live- stock speculator in Denver He led here a voir ago Relatives sold they BJ had beard from him about a month I ago Hi sras not mmbr of I . firm of Degen Brothers. Denver, which Is composed of his two brothers hen In Cclorido. Dgn managed a stock ran-h for his brothers at Parker. He was 4fi vears old and unmarried. |