The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-23
MARVIN 5. TAYLOR
COMMITS SUICIDE
Popular Ogden Boy Blows His
Brains Out at the Healy
Hotel.
ILL-HEALTH ASSIGNED
AS CAUSE OF THE ACT
Self Destruction Is COOlly
Planned and Deliberately
Executed.
Special 10 The Tribune.


OGDEN, Oct. 22.-While laboring
under spell Of dependency, believed
20 have been brought about by III
health and tho fear of wasting death
from tubercular trouble, nipeteen-year'
old Marvin S. Taylor, well-known
clerk of this city, placed the muzzlc Of q
.3S-calibre revolver to his right temple
time Wednesday night, and pressing
the trigger, snuffed out his young life.
The body was found cold in death at y
clock Thursday morning, after
search had been instituted by. relatives,
who became alarmed ut the boy s dis
appearance from home.
The young man s self-destructlon,
from all appearances, was coolly
planned and deliberately executed, Let
ters written in a hand devoid of any
evidences of excitement or nervousness
were left for members of his family,
giving in detail what disposition to
make of his personal effects, and note
Undertaken Z. A. Larkin and his
relatives, at 446 Seventeenth street,
where he resided, The secret which
caused his rash act goes with him to
the grave. To his step-mothcr, Mrs.
James E. Taylor, he wrote:
Goodbye to all, goodbye. have
gone to the great beyond, Good bye,
Aunt Millie. Goodbye to all. / have
gone. None of you will know why |
have done this. but it is for the best.
Both OF my brothers were better boys
than I. Goodbye. MARVIN
In Good Spirits.
Mr Taylor left his desk in the Office
Of Chief Clerk Olmstead of the Union
Pacific railroad Wednesday afternoon,
apparently in good spirits. Reaching
his home at 446 Seventeenth street
early in the evening, be found the mem
bers of the family preparing to leave
for the theater. He was invited TO Join |
the party. but declined. After all had |
left he dressed himself, and boarding
a car, came up town. From a news
stand he purchased tablet of paper |
upon which the notes were written. Not
having sufficient funds to purchase a re
-volver, the young man pawned his |
fathers watch at Sorenson s pawn shop !
on Twenty-ffth street. The pawn ticket |
was left with directions to his family !
to redeem the watch at once.
Arriving at the Healy hotel he asked |
Tor room. and was assigned to No. 60 |
the third floor, This was about s |
heard by the attaches OF the hotel, and |
nothing was known of the suicide until |
the boys step-mother received two let |
ters enclosed in envelopes from the |
Healy hotel by the early morning mail. |
The contents of one is given above The |
other, he expressed as dying wish, |
should be read by no one but his step.
mother. Becoming alarmed after read
ing the letters. a search was started. |
and the body soon located in the room
at the hotel.
Feared Consumption
The mother OF the boy died several
years ago from consumption, and he
had been warned by physician that
the disease may have been transmitted
10 him. This fact and the tragic end
of his father, who was killed by easo.
line explosion at Pocatello Ida. a wear
ago while in the employ Of the Elite
Cleaning company Of this city, is be-
heved to have preyed on the young
man s mind.
Nothing but words Of commendation
are heard from his business associates
for the young man. Chief Clerk Ohm.
stead says that no was a thoroughly
competent employee, and that his
prospects for successful future were
bright.
One of his brothers lives at San Fran
cisco and the other is EMPLOYED AZ
Davenport, Ia. Both have been notified
of the sad end.