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Show I iisl SUSPECT I ' SEEN 1 OGDEN I I LJSIEMI If Foreman Robert Niles' identification identifi-cation Is correct, then Otto Applequlst, Apple-qulst, wanted by the Salt Lake officers offi-cers for complicity In the Morrison murder of a few days ago, was in Ogden yesterda afternoon seekinu work and remained in the city until late in the evening. I As Mr. Nlles and Robert Moyes were discussing the Morrison murder at the Elito last evening. Mr Moves jcalled Niles' attention to the fact jthat the picture of Applequlst, as giv-re-a in the papers, very much resem-I resem-I bled the man who placed the base 'iron on the Eccles steel skyscraper I annex a few weeks ago. Nlles secured a paper containing . the photograph of Applequlst and im- I' mediately recognized it as that of the man referred to. He said that he was positive and stated further that (the man had asked him for work dur Ing the afternoon. Just as Mr. Niles made the remark that the picture was that of the man who worked for Dun-das Dun-das on the steel building, a man standing at the end of the bar turned and walked but, whereupon Mr. Moyes stated that he was the fellow they were talking about. The straug-!er straug-!er had evidently overheard the con-versation, con-versation, as he made a hasty re-ftreat. re-ftreat. As he left the cafe, Niles re 'cognized him as the man wanted. . The officers were notified and (since that time they have been looking look-ing for the man. No trace has been 1 ! discovered, howeer, and the officers ) lhave been unable to locate any one Who resembles Applequlst The officers offi-cers are of the opinion that there is possibly a mistaken identification in the matter, as Mr. Niles describes the man whom hr met yesterday as being , five feet eight or ten inches tall while ' Applequist is a six-footer. One of I the other boys engaged on the Eccles j building who saw the man suspected of being Applequist, says that, in his I Judgment, he Is fully six feet tall. He was accompanied by a smaller man and they both stated that they were lookinc for work I Mr. Nlles, however is posithe that the man he saw yesterda is the one engaged on the steel structural work on the Eccles building. He states that in the photograph the fellow has on the same hat he wore in Ogden, a little brown hat with a narrow rim and turned up all round. He noticed in particular that when the workman was here his hat looked as though it were made for a boy and, being such a large fellow, made him to look like a "Yon Yonson." "The fellow that worked on the I building and whoso photograph I saw I in the paper as that of Applequist, said Mr. Niles this morning, "was a large Swede, but he did not talk very broken. He was a good workman and handled the base cross irons in the construction of the annex. I did not know his name then and I do not know It now. but I have a perfect recollection of hlg face He was here yesterday and asked for a job, but I had nothing for him to do.' There is some speculation as to whether Applequist and his compan ion of yesterday were not the men who robbed the Hansen saloon. December De-cember 1 but no definite conclusion can be arrived at in this particular as the parties who were held up that night did not get a good look at the 1 desperados who wore masks. It is I said, however, that they were foreigners foreign-ers and spoke broken English, After leaving the Elite the man whom Niles recognized was seen to enter the Crystal bar on Washington avenue, but w-as not seen after that This was In the early part of the evening. nn |