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Show SUDDEN DEATH ON OPERATING TABLE While under the Influence of an anaesthetic Saturday. B. U. Abbe, a cook at the LMngston Cafeteria, was suddenly seized with heart weakness and died. Th attending physicians were preparing to perform a sur?1cal operation on the patient for Internal trouble. The circumstances connected connect-ed arc rather mysterious and It is thought possible lhat the man had taken some sort of poison to bring about his death as sron as the anaesthetic an-aesthetic should be administered. The unfortunate man wrote a letter-to letter-to his father In Sagamore. Michigan. In which he told his father lhat this letter would be the last that he would ever receive from him, That he was going to undergo an operation ,fn Saturday with littlo hope of his recovery. To add more mystery to the case, prior to leaving the Livingston Living-ston Cafeteria, be bade his employer a distinct, yet pathetic "Goodbye" which was something very unusual. Before undergoing the operation opera-tion he went out and purchased some meat for his wife nnd left between S7.00 and JS.Cfl with the delivery boy to take to her with the meal. Just before getting on the operating table he gave the doctors his teb-phone teb-phone number. Whether the unfortunate man had a iremonltion to write the letter and make obvious arrangements before his death, or whether he took some drug Intentionally or otherwise prior to the operation cannot be asccrtaine County Attorney David Jensen, was called and decided that an autopsv should be held and accordingly County Coun-ty Physician Pldcock and Doctor Green held the autopsy at Iirklns and Sena' morgue. The abdomen was removed and will be forwarded lo State Cheml6t Harms, at Salt Lake-City Lake-City for analysis of the contents. Mr. Abbe was only 13 cars old and employed at the Livingston Cafeteria as cook, nnd had only resided In Og den a short while. He Is survived by a wife and two small children who reside at 227 2Mb street A telegram was forwarded by Larkui and Sons to his father announcing his son's untimely death and asking for Instuictlons. regarding burial. |