Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-23
FOUND DEAD IN THE ATTIC.
Died Instantly Without Leaving a
Note or Memorandum Assigning
Reason for Awful Deed.
WAS FOUND BY HIS RELATIVES.
They Missed Him and Started to
Search, Never Dream pg that Any
thing Was Wrong

w. A. Nelden, the well known drug
glst and business man, committed sui
eide this afternoon, about o'clock, IL
IL thought. in the attic OF his residence
az Twelfth East and First South
streets. by shooting himself through
the head with a 44-callber revolver. No
shot was heard, and the terrible deed
was not known until MT Nelden's lunch
was carried up to his room, and behold,
he was not there
a search was at once made as to his
whereabouts although anything like
self-destructlon was never dreamed Of.
Mr. Nelden was not to be found on the
second floor and his folks wondered
where he could be, when the attic was
thought Of, and 10 and behold the un-
fortunate man was seen lying on the
floor with his life blood yelling out OF
his head and a fatal revolver In his
hand. It was some moments before the
terror-strlcken household could muster
courage enough to do anything. when
the drug house down town, and the po-
lice station were notified by phone.
Mrs, Nelden was completely Frustrated,
and became entirely helpless under the
blow and their son-in-law took charge
Of the house,
The position Of the body and the sur
roundings indicated that Mr. Nelden
died instantly He left no note or mem
orandum showing that he intended TAX
ing his life and in fact during the
morning he appeared " good spirits.
The family believes Il was the result OF
sudden and momentary impulse due to
ALTERATION OF mind caused by the pro-
longed sickness and physical break
down 10 which the unfortunate man
had been subjected. That there was
any deliberate preparation Is entirely
secuted Mr.. Nelden has been very i'll
and under The Doctors care for several
months due to constitution broken
down by years of incessant application
TO his business affairs. without rest
or recreation. For years he has been
one Of the most active Of men in the
city's commercial, social, educational
and political affairs.
He was president of the city board
Of education, he was one OF the first
and most energetic movers in the or
ganlzatton of the Commercial club,
and the first president Of that infu-
entail body. He was the mainstay,
the central figure Of the several drug
houses which he was the manager Of
during his residence in this city, and
was one OF the best known men and re-
liable IN the western drug trade, MIR.
Neden was the person0catlon Of en-.
ergy lie was always Mt work, doing
something IN an the varied fields of ac-
tiyty In which ne was from time to
time engaged, and when an over
worked system refused to longer sub
nit to the unending strain, the sudden
and most unwelcome change to en-
forced ldleness from continued
activity completely undid him,
and he wandered around from
club house to club house
like a bird that had lost It's bearings
IN a storm. He was restless and wor-
ried, tried to resume control of the
management Of the W. A. Neden Drug
company but had to give It up, and
didn't know what to do with himself.
This with the physical weakness in
duced by sickness proved too much
for his mental stability and he went
down under It all Of a sudden.
MIR Nelden was 8? years old and
leaves a wife, and three children, the
latter being Mrs Louise Nelden Cross,
and Paul and Ralph,
Later-It Is stated that financial wor-
ries were In a measure responsible for
the suicide