Show II I SHOT TI1RIUITH i qIJ l J Lewis Price of Nophl Was Murdered Was Evidently Placed Against the Fire While Yet Alive and Managed I to Crawl Away A Man Named Jncobson Arrested for the CrimeS Crime-S Had Quarreled with tho Bey and His Father Nephl Utah Sept 30 Nothing for years has caused so much excitement nnd cast such a shade of gloom over r the city of Nephl ns tho coldblooded S murder of Lewis Price on last Friday Lewiss father Charles Price Is a sheep ranchman Lewis a boy of 16 left home Friday morning for the camp In the canyon four miles east of town to move the camp some distance to where the man was who had charge of tho sheep herd Tho herder without provisions waited wait-ed until Saturday morning when hungry hun-gry and uneasy about the boy8 failure 1 to come he set out In search of him Fttlllng to find Mm late Saturday i tooht he reported to the paternal roof thalLe had not come with the provisions oQld not be found A posse of meLt Vd In search and found him early Sunday about a quarter quar-ter of a mile from the old campS camp-S The men hastened to the city and Tim Foote a Justice acting as Coroner Coro-ner with a Coroners jury went out to I hold an Inquest over the body On arriving there and with only a casual Investigation they said that the Juno had fallen on him and that It was not necessary to hold an Inquest They gathered him up and brought him home A wound was discovered on him and they supposed a stick had passed through his body but did not Investigate It enough to used tnln whether It was a stick or a gun wound At home on dressing the body It was soon determined that It was not R wound caused by a stick and Dr Miner was summoned who found that I death was caused by a 44cullber ball The ball entered Just above tho cross of and In tho fork of the suspenders shearing ono of the suspenders ranging rang-ing downward and passing out Just below be-low and to tho light of the navel The murderer built a fire by the body to destroy It and cover up his deed The body was burned In several I places and quite a bit where the bullet passed out However there was life enough for the boy to crawl away from the lire and avoid any Revere burns There is no telling how long he suffered suf-fered as It was posblble for him to lln Kir iur u uuy ur tWO Thoboj jfathervlB lylnRvery low 1 with ijpnold fever On Saturday the boys grandfather came In to see how his son Charles Price was getting along and said Lewis Is late getting home The father said I have no Lewis he will never come homo alive At this time ho ha l not yet heard that his boy had not gotten around to the herder All day Saturday he felt that Lewis was not among the living The bereaved be-reaved family are wild with grief Who did It Who could have the heart to shoot down In cold blood one of Nephls best and quietest boys The S charge Is laid at the door of one Jacobson Ja-cobson who had been working for Charles Price and with whom Mr Price and tue boy some time previous had had some words A mans track about the body and the tracks of a horse with three shoes have been traced to the hut where this man was lodging Jacobson came Into Nephl and went Into the house when tho boy was brought home Mr Price ordered him out Immediately and In the evening he i left for tho north on horseback An 1 officer started In pursuit today and tomorrow 1 to-morrow he will bring him back and lieS lie-S L will be given an opportunity to rid himself of the cloud that hangs over him S Jacobson was arrested at Payson find the Sheriff will be here with him 1 at 10 oclock tonight |