Show THE FACTS IN THE CASE z The AUeged Danite Murder at Vernal Utah A Silly Story To the Editor of THE HERALD Tho following appeared in the Tribune oft of-t e 19th nstant A SUPPOSED JtOKMOH MURDER DENVER Jan 16A telegram from Fort Duchesne Utah brings the information that William Whitney Seymour a prominent Gentile ranchmau in Ashley valley was found dead in his bed where he had evidently been shot while asleep It is believed murder was committed by Danites Seymour went to Utah ll in 18b2 and was post trader at old Fort Thoraburg J C W Seymour father of the murdered man is now living here but for many years was cashier ot the old Farmers and Mechanics bank of Detroit De-troit The facts are entirely different W W Seymour was last seen alive on the afternoon after-noon of the 11th at the post office On the i 14th it was reported that he was lying dead on the floor of his house The coroner getting a jury repaired there and found i o him on the floor with a doublebarrelled shotgun in his hand one barrel discharged and a frightful wound in the head the same penetrating his left eye Everything pointed to a suicide The verdict of the jury was That he came to his death by a gunshot wound in the left eye by whose hands we are unable to determine Seymour has been well known here since 1882 If he had an enemy no one knew it and the supposition that he was murdered as the above would imply is too absurd The statements that he was found dead in bed while the facts are that he was found dead on the floor are sufficient to brand the whole telegram as a lie |