The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-31

Gooding. He accordingly made an ap-
pointment and the two young women
met Day with a friend of his in the
pharmacy OF the West hotel after the
theater- They went TO the cafe Of the
hotel and had supper.
In relating the happening there Miss
Townsend said.
1T is not true that Mr. Day had been
/ drinking. At least he showed no signs
of it. and only drank d little during
the supper we had together. 1 had
known him we'll and had not seen him
since the middle of last summer, 50
when I met him on Saturday afternoon
I readily agreed TO take supper with
him. After the theater we were a
pleasant qUartctte, and finally L raised
my glass and said.
Let's eat, drink and be merry, IJr
tomorrow we may die
Miss GOoding said: You're wrong,
Grace. It's tomorrow we die dis
agreed with her and appealed to Mr..
Day. He grabbed his glass, and, rising
from his chair, said:
= You are mistaken: the toast We
drink to is the one I give: LET'S eat,
drink and be merry tomorrow we do
die -"
I'VE drank the toast and on the NOR
row / heard that Mr.. Day was really
dead. ! cannot think of that toast now
without shuddeTing. 1t was such d
pleasant little party and none of us
certainly had any thought of what was
20 come, AMI it was, oh, SO prophetic.
Mr. Day left us after putting US in "a
carriage to go home, just before mid
night. and must have reached the bill
lard room where he was killed by at
least twenty minutes after r.
Where Day was during the time the
two young women were at the theater
is still unknown, but it seems from
their story that at the time he left
them he was sober, and so could not
have been much intoxicated at the time
of the quarrel with Hamilton.
Grace Townsend, the relative of the
PiIlsburys. is short of stature. blonde
in complexion. and a well educated
young woman of good breeding. She
is a sister of stub" Townsend, long
distance bicycle rider. She is about 70
years Of age.
Frank Hamilton may never be
brought to trial or even indicted Mrs.
Day. the mother OF the man who was
killed has declared it is her wish that
Hamilton escape a trial. If possible, and
that the matter be allowed to rest
where it is While Mrs. Day does not
say so. it is known that she breads
what a trial might bring forth.
Leonard Day was the only child and
Mrs. Day has realized that if the en-
tire truth comes out, the names OF
many persons nearly all of them hold
ing high positions in the business and
social world, viii be dragged in the
mud. This she is determined to prevent
if such thing be possible.
There was a romance in the life or
Mrs. Day that the public is now dis
cussing in detail Twenty-Five years
ago she was a girl of il years, just
out of school. when she fell under the
notice of Leonard Day, a millionaire
Iumberman, whose first wife had died
some time before. To this girl in short
dresses the White-haiTed lumberman
began paying marked attentions and
in a few weeks it was announced that
the two were engaged TO be married
The children of Mr.. Day, by his first
wife. entered an emphatic protest
against the marriage, but it did no
good for the man of G. married the
girl of Il. A year later the boy Leon
ard was born. This marriage brought
about a GOODNESS between Ndr. Day and
the children by his first wife, all of
whom he cut of in his viii without
dollar. leaving his fortune TO his young
wife and his son. Mr. Day was killed
in an accident six years ago and since
that time his widow had spent much
time travelling in Europe and other
countries with her son.