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Show SEARCH FOR APPLEQUIST Salt Lake. Jan lfi Toller offleers of every city in the United States have been asked to ro-operatp In a nai ion-wide search for Otto Apple quist. whom the members of the sher iff's force and the local poliee are eonvinced is one of the murderers of John G. Morrison nnd John Arllns: Morrison, his son at the Morrison groeer store In Salt Lake last Sat urday night. Telegrams eontaininR descriptions of Applequlst were sent broadrast yesterday and they will be followed by hundreds of circulars, containing a picture and a detailed description of Applequlst These circulars will be sent to police departments and sheriffs in almost every city In the United States, and the local officers are hopeful that the circulars may result In the arrest of thp fugitive. A formal charge of murder In the first degree will be filed against Joseph Jo-seph Hillstrom, the wounded man who was arrested early Tuesday morning. This course was decided upon last night by Acting Sheriff Atha Williams. Mr. Williams believes the chain of circumstances implicating Hillstrom Is strong enough to war rant proceeding against him on the eharge of murder Another development In the murder mur-der case was the arrest yesterday of Fred Larson, a friend of Otto Apple quist, who was picked up by mem bers of the police department. He is being held in the city jail on sus plclon of having known something of the murders. Larson admits knowing know-ing Applequi6t well and Hillstrom slightly. Iarson said that he visited the Esllus home in Murray to see Apple quist some time in December, and was invited there for Christmas dinner, din-ner, but did not go He said he met Hillstrom at the Esllus house The last time he saw Applequlst. he said, was on Christmas da. The police, however, declare that they have reason rea-son to believe that he and Applequlst were together more recently. Robert Erickson, who was arrested by the sheriff's force on Wednesday on the suspicion that he might have been an accomplice in the murders, was yesterday released, having con vinced the officers of his innocence W. J. Williams, who was twice ar rested on suspicion of having know 1 edge of the murderers, is still hel.J at the county Jail. Deputy Sheriff Williams learned last night that Applequist was at one time a sailor and was tattooed In several sev-eral places. On one arm is tattooed tat-tooed the figure of a woman in tights and on the other an anchor. The figure of the woman Is In red and blue ink and the anchor in blue. Sheriff T. A. DeVlne of Weber county, telephoned the sheriff's ol fice in Salt Lake last night that a man had said he saw Applequlst In an Ogden cafe at 6 o'clock in the evening. Efforts by the Ogden oi-ficers oi-ficers to confirm the story proved futile. |