The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-28
FRANK kE|NER
KILLS HIMSELF
Well-Known Travelling Sales
man Ends His Life With
Revolver.
BLOWS HIS BRAINS OUT
AT THE JOINT BUILDING
Wife Was in Los Angeles: De-
spondency Assigned as
Cause.

The lifeless body OF Frank Keiner, 8
travelling salesman, who has made his
homo i'm this city for years. was FOUND
living In n pool of blood on Il lawn about
n hundred feet north Of the north en-
trance to the city and county building
by a Tribune carrier yesterday morning
at $40 o'clock. When the erucsoine fine
WAS made the dead man riSnt name stil
had blown out his brains. The police
dennrtTcnt WIS at once notified Serg,
cant John J. Robefts and officer Franz
ambulance. driven hy Chauffeur Dennis
Sullivan. but life had been extinct fo'
some time. The remains were taken Il
tho undertaking establishment OF (: G.
O'Donneli 6; Co, where they VIII be held
pending funeral ARRANGEMENTS.
Keiner was 81 years old and formerly
lived at eos Il street with his wife. who
is the daughter Of Mrs. A. S. DenorInan
dc OF Los Angeles. He had many friends
in Salt Lake VINO claim that he had beer
drinking heavily of late and who give
ton and financial revcrses as the pri-
mary causes for ending his life. keinei
left no word or note for anyone to eN-
plain his act.
Tried to Borrow Gun.
According 10 friends he endeavoTed toc
borrow A revolver Sunday night and
WAS apparently broodinG over some trou-
Bile. His request was refused, as II was
feared he intended To do himself bodily
harm Later he went for a walk ac;
after dinner retired TO his room. at the
Wilson hotel. where he was stopping ap-
pgrentiy In moro ct,rrrful spir.ts,.
Tuesday morning keiner walked into
the hotel at about I clock. apparently
sober, and engaged for lew minutes IN
a friendly conversation with Lisle Smith
the night clerk He later retired to his
room. asking not 10 he disturbed Ac-
cordinS 10 Smith, he came down again
shortly afterward, saying that he was go
ing TO take little walk before retiring
for the night. He was not seen alive
again,
Mrs. Kciner went 10 Los Angeles a bout
month ago 10 visit with her mother
Mrs, a 5. Denormandie. li55 South
Grand avenue. She was notified OF the
suicide of her husband q once. and. ac-
cordng 10 a wire received late last night
boarded Il train FOR Hollywood immcdl
atc!y. She is expected 10 arrive liz This
city tomorrow.
Widow Is Frustrated.
The Los Angeles wire advises that Mrs
keiner WAS prostrated al the news and
that she vehemently denied the report
that she had separated from her husband
or that there ever had been any trouble
son for hcr husbands act Keiner was
expected in Los Angeles next September
Soren Y. Christensen. who said last
night that he had known the keinei
. IdUlisN tOr ii IctjHTPu tHit I've
had received a letter from Mrs. Denor-
mandie TO the effect that Mrs, Neiner
was i'll and asking why her husband did
not write. Mrs. Christen said that
the communication was received as n
friend and not as 0r attorney. He de-
ciared hat Mrs. Keiner went to Los
Angeles with her son. whom she had by
her first husband.
koiner's friends, whose names were
withheld, say that he told them a week
ago HAT he had awakened from slecr
10 hnd himself about 10 leap from a
window OF the third story at the Wilson
They affirm that he thought himself at
Saltnir about TO take plunge in the
Ter. Some of the friends fear desponden-
cy over some trouble had rendered him
mentally unbalanced. He was recognized
as a good. reliable salesman