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Show Police Solve Identity of Dead Woman Found In P.G. Ba!l Park The mystery womn, found dead by three local boys last Sunday in the Pleasant Grove ball park ticket office has been identified as Esther lone Filkel Ballinger, 41, employed briefly in Provo as a waitress about a year ago. She apparently died of malnutrition and exposure. A box of Christmas packages purchased in the fall of last year, and carefully wrapped in Yuletide wrappings, arc still at Hotel Rob- erts, where Mrs. Ballinger resided from Nov. 24, 1952, until late Jan. 1953, with her husband, Jesse Ballinger, Ball-inger, Salt Lake City. Mr. Ballinger, employed as a sheep herder by Delbert Chipman, American Fork, visited her at the hotel several times prior to her departure de-parture in late January. Pleasant Grove police officer Glen Newman was the irst official to find the body, and he and other local police officers have been working with county sheriff's deputies dep-uties in trying to solve the case. In a wire to Sheriff Theron S. Hall, the FBI said the woman was bora Sept 28, 1912, at Peoria, 111. Her latest brush with the police, according to FBI records, was in Salt Lake City last March, when she was booked as a disorderly person and held for the Board of Health. At that time, her home address was given as Roberts Hotel, Provo, Pro-vo, said the FBI message. They had no record of any living relatives, rela-tives, Sheriff Hall said. The sheriff Wednesday complimented compli-mented his deputies for their close and concerted efforts on the case, which he said still "is not completed." com-pleted." Officers were working on new leads turned up Wednesday in Provo Pro-vo and Pleasant Grove, where the woman's body was found. A woman wom-an of the same general description was said to have resided in a Provo Pro-vo motor court up to a day or two before the body was discovered. Whether this woman is the same as the one found dead, forms the crux of the investigation. County Attorney Arnold Roy-lance Roy-lance said Wednesday night he still had not received a report on the chemical analysis of the woman's wom-an's body from the pathologist who performed an autopsy Monday. Mon-day. When it arrives, he said, he will detemine if an inquest is needed. |