Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-17 | Page 3 | Committed Suicide at Wilson Hotel

ifLiUTHD SI C1BE AT WIL.ON HOTEL Salt Lake City, .March If.. Two men. about the tame age. but strangers strang-ers to each other, committed suicide In the pame ruaaner at the same hotel about the same hour toda. H. En-rlce, En-rlce, a stenographer, employed by a law firm, took morphine a little before be-fore 11 o'clock at the Wilson hotel, repented re-pented the act and telephoned for a doctor, but died four hours later at St. Mark's hospital. He Ic-tt a request that E. T. Evans of Denver be notllled. A little after 2 o'clock V. D. Ecott swallowed three ounces of carbolic acid In another room of the hotel aud died almost Instantly. His father. J. H. EcoiT. was formerly an li3jrance inspector ad Memphis, Tenn. 'Ihe dead man had been employed by a construction company on the Western Pacific railroad. He had $700 In tho bank and was engaged to be married to a young Salt Lake woman. Both, of the suicides were about 26 years of age and In neither case can a motive for self destruction be assigned.