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Show 00 SALT LAKER HAS MYSTERIOUS DEATH l-i'S A.N'fjELES. Aug '3. "1 11 be J here only one night.' H Benton lold the clerk of t h - MatiC hotol, First und .Main streets, when he registered from Salt Lake Monday. He paid his room rent In advance. Yesterdas morning found the man dead In his room, sitting In bed with a newspaper In Ills hand, arid a bag of chocolates beside him. A small empty bottle which may have Contained poison was found In: the room by Deputy Cforonor William j A. McDonald: and when he examined; the chocolates, it was discovered that each nal teen piugg' 1 anu poison had been substituted for the i r. am filling The Los Angeles police are trying to determine If It Is a plain case of suicide sui-cide or a murder |