The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-03
ARISE AS
b FATE OF WOMAN
Is: "Did Mrs. George
avis Drown Herself in
Jordan River?"
a HAVE GONE EAST
5ents in Early Life Are
Cited in Support OF
New Theory.
HAVE GONE EAST

tNSF
"a the shades of memory, the
If buried sorrows, rather than q
.c for the morphine that she had
rorn, responsible for the action
q George Davis, who disappeared
her home, TAI West Fourth South
ten DAYS ago, after leaving a
"a her husband telling of her ln-
a 10 cast herself into the Jordan
4 the cruel edge Of recollection
Ia bevopd endurance by the
4 shrods of her broken allegiance
A drug demon who had before dealt
.rretfulness at the price of servi-
she cast herself into the river as
.reatened, or did she turn aside at
"a minute as there came. before
Ind the picture of Dor little son,
Ristine, living with his grand
b in Iowai
|<e are questions that daily torture
Ind of ber husband. George Davis.
I'D in the mystery of the disap'
oee of Mrs. Davis is dying, for in
only thrives upon developments.
|erfunctory manner policemen have
visited the river to continue the
searcb for the body of the missing
d. although several of the men are
nr on the new theory, With them
{ay goes the husband, driven by
|sclation rather than by any idea
|he davis search may be any more
Tive of results than the search of
ing days.
ring of the Past.
king of his wife last night, Mr.,
9aid that after she bad taken the
for the morphine habit in the
b B hospital al police headquarters,
,omed TO think more Of the past.
leu sought out her sister to talk
Davis had been married before
BIS welded To the husband who
B left TO sorrow at her fate. She
he mother Of three children. One
[n died natural death. A second
iirDed TO death. according 10 MIR.
and the third is living in the
Is ii possible that the reawnkcDed
b quickened the mother longing
G unhappy heart and made her
m erratic WHY of losing herself
world with the intentiop Of seek
Il the child, incognito7 Tho fact
Me disappeared from home in a
dress rather than street attire,
zen accepted as an argument
v The possibility that she left the
|er Disappearance.
|lne with the idea that she may
zone away is a story told of her
done such a thing years ago in
.fiIer days Of her sorrow. She
salt Lake about eleven years
|'rQre her marriage to Mr.. Davis,
@iter her separation from her
nnsband. At that time she lived !
'th the family of her father, Will |
'elnsot1, since moved to San Fran
!ay she disappeared with her two
Eniidren. Her relatives learned
|pgarently without funds she had
|el to make her way to Kansas !
king her two children with her.
not long after this that she mar.
Davis in Atehison, Kan.
g Time of her former disappear.
|2m Salt Lake MZ Davis had !
contracted the drug habit. Did |
grief that drove her then. re.
phunt and pursue her after She
'ken off the habit?
nbers Footprints.
meantime the husband cannot !
1e picture in his mind of tho
q woman's feet in the CLAW
.auge ol the waters of tho .Jor.
nc finding of her body IN The
would solve the mvsterv Of !
sne went when she disapneared
opld solve the mystery of the
ntr actf Was it due To sue.
psl than to failure in her fight
nerSe'f OF the drug habit9
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