The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-17
TWO SUICIDES
At THE WILSON
IN TWO HOURS
Both in Flush of Early Man.
hood Die by Poison With
out Known Motive.
ERENICE TAKES MORPHINE
AND REPENTS TOO LATE
w. D. ECoFF FOUND KNEElTNG
AT BED AFTER SWALLOW
ING CARBoLIC ACID.

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&" Two suicides were committed in g
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@ H. Erenice, lately employed as 9
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@ twenty grains of morphine. 9
g w. d. Ecoff, stationary en- f.
g gineer in the employ of the Utah (.
g CONSTRUCTION company, committed g
9 suicide by drinking three ounces of Z.
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Yesterday was a day of strange CO.
incident tragedy in Salt Lake. Within
a period of two hours two young men,
both in the flush of ambitious man.
hood, both stalwart, vigorous and with
all of life's prospects before them, COM
mitted suicide. Both were strangers to
each other. precluding a suicide pact,
yet both chose their rooms in the VIII
son hotel and midday as the time for
their seif-destruction- In neither case
was even the inkling of a motive given
or left behind.
The only marked difference i'm the
suicides was that one, Harry Erenico,
who took twenty grains of morphine,
evidently lost his courage and tele-
phoned for a physician before the drug
could take its effect. W. d. EcofT, who
chose carbolic acid. was found, CARRIED
in his night dress, kneeling by his bed
side.
Both cases are far removed from the
ordinary suicide event, and both are
cIouded in an unusual atmosphere of
mystery.
Erenice was the first cred
Aside from the fact that L. haL been
as stenographer with the
Utah Copper company at Garfield for
about seven months, and then trans
ferred to the Bingham office of that
where he was employed for
the past two months, little is known of
him. He left the service of the Utah
Copper company Saturday and came to
Salt Lake Sunday for the purpose, 1t
is understood, of entering the employ
of the law firm of Mark P. Braffet-
Friend Tells. the Story.
on Sunday he met c. w. Evers, gem
eral foreman of the crushers at the
Garfield plant, where the two had been
friends during Erenice's employment
there. The story OF this suicide may
begin with Mr.. Evers' account of the
meeting. To Herald reporter ne said:
Il met Harry last Sunday. the first
time I had. seen him since he left US
two months ago to go to the Bingham
office. We spent the day together, and
he shared my room with me Sunday
night He was in excellent spirits, and
was talking about the good prospects
he had in his new position. When | got
up Monday morning he was still asleep,
and 1 left him in bed. That was the
last I saw of him until I went to the
morgue tonight to see his body
From what can be learned. ETenice
arose toward noon and spent the day on
the streets. Monday night he appeared
at the hotel and engaged a room, paying
the rent in advance. Yesterday shortly
before II o'clock he called one of the
bell boys and sent him to a drug store
for morphine, obtaining twenty grains.
Shortly after that the same bell boy
was sent to the room to collect for tel
ephone tolls on service used by Erenice
and as the boy entered the room Erenice
told him that he had taken an overdose
of the morphine and had sent for a doc
tor
The boy, although stricken with fear,
FASTENED downstairs to the desk to re-
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