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Show he found difficulty In locating the kej-hole. kej-hole. Falling against the door in his vain st niggle to unlock it. Miller wam heard to call for help. It evoked merriment, mer-riment, and roomors within hearing laughed while Miller cursed. It appears that Miller became tired and leaning over the guard rail los' his balance and fell through tbe air shaft head foremost. The crash brought out lodgers on the first floor of the rooming house. Patrolman fJeorge Cleveland was called Into the roomlnj house He Immediately Im-mediately summoned Police Surgeon F. n. Steel?. Dr. Steele made a hasty Investigation and found that death had been Instantaneous Miller bad lived in Salt Iake two years, working about Commercial street cobbler shop3 as a ihoo re-nalrer. re-nalrer. I FALLS TO DEATH IN AN AIR SHAFT. Gus Miller Breaks Neck and Back in Commercial Street Rooming House. Salt Lake, Muy 2 Falling headlong head-long through a 20-foot air shaft. Gus Miller, a veteran shoemaker, was in-stnntly in-stnntly killed at the Anderson rooming room-ing house, 64 Commerclnl street, shortly alter 10:30 o'clock last night. He had been drinking heavily during thf evening, aud apparently lost his baiance, falling over the rulllug at the top of the air shaft, cloe to 'the entrance of bis room. In the fall he fractured his skull and broke his neck and back in two place. Inmates of the rooming house heard Miller struggle up the stairs to his sleeping onartcrs about 10 o'clock. Arriving Ar-riving at the door leading to his room |