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Show DENVER FINANCIER FOUND DEAD IN CAR DENVER, Colo. Dee. 17. John 11 !Forter. Denver capitalist and finanen r. reported missing to the police by relatives rela-tives Saturday, was found dead with a bullet wound ni bin head Sunday oh tin- Happy Canon road near Sedalla, Colo. A revolver was tound beside tho body. Mr. Porter who was th son of the late Henrj M Porter! wealthy broker i,l Denver b ft his home in his auto- I mobile at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, 'saying he was going on a 'short rldc" When he failed to return, the police 'were notified and a search began. I I The body was found by a party of Mr. Porter's friends who motored to Sedalla in search of him, and was re-J moved to Castle Rock, county seat of iDouglas county, by the coroner, who following an investigation, pronounced j I Mr. Porter's death "o case of suicide. " ! Air. Porter who was !) years old and a member of the investment banking bank-ing firm of Boetteher, Porter and Company, Com-pany, was one of the most prominent men in financial, business, social and; BUlb circles in Denver His father la rated as one of the wealthiest men ml the state. Hundreds of motorists Joined In the search for Mr Porter, scouring with 'police, suburban mountain roads and other outlying highways. Mr. Porter Is survived he his widow, anil their four-year-old . his parents par-ents -Mr and Mrs. Henry M Porter, two sisters, Mrs Ruth Waring ot Denver Den-ver and Mrs J. Mason of Riverside, Calif., and a brothel, 'llllam Porter |