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Show STAR WITNESS MISSING Charles Hclsgaun Might Tell Much of Hay Murder. SUPPOSED TO BE IN EUROPE Former Emplojee of Peter Mortensen Disappeared Soon After the Murder of Hay He Was Known to Have fossessed a 38 Caliber Revolver, nnd His Clothes Were Spotted With Yellow clay on Day Following tho Murder Trial of Mortensen Begins Today, (Monda, s nail, ) The prosecution In the Ha, murder case will go to trl il toll, without the man who could In all ptobibllit, tell more of the murder than an, other llv Ing witness with the poeelblc cxceitlou of refer Mortensen Ihete Is little doubt thit If this man Is not nn nccesor, he Is full, cognizant of all the drcumidau is of the cilme nnd can cxpluln where the revolver ramo from that took Ha, life oil the night of Decembet lb 1101 Hut he w III n it I e 1 1 sent nt the trial for he Is somewhere In I uuie whete subpoenis are or no vnlue anl onl, a formnl ilnrge of luuidrr woul I avail to eccine his extra lltlon While the Mice were scouring the clt, at d the Sheriff s oillcers were dtalnlng a ond to locue the inlsslni, gun lharles Hels gaun slipped emletl, to the Pncllle coist nnd (oi k ship for (Wninii, He has not been heard from since although severnl peoj le Peter Mortnen In particular would be ver. Bin 1 to know w hero he Is MOllTI NRI N INT1 Itl STrD Mm ,ou know a nun naniel Charles He rgaun? usked a leporterof Morten, sen 'iturda, nfternoon Mortensen leturned a blank look nnd lepllcd Ihit he did not Ho use 1 to shingle houses for you pursued the teportei t had 11 number of men shingling houses for nie replied the prisoner He might have been on of them If I had mv pa, rolls hero I could tell In a minute ou ought lo know him He was one of ,our countrymen He lived over In the Bugarhouse ward Did ou never call en him there? No I do not even know where he lived fly the wa, Helsgaun had a 3S-callher 3S-callher levolver The pe-lsoner started from his seat like one who has received an electrical shock Now jou tegln to Interest me he exclaimed What do jou know about him? Certain things that led me to he. lleve that he might know something nbiut ,our case was the reply Wh, don t jou go to m, attorney, then nnd tell him? There was a de gree ot animation about the prisoner that he rarely shows and an Intenslt, to the question that betokered nnxlety or some other strong emotion Where Is he now? was the next Itieotlon fiom the prisoner who had suddenly become the Interrogator The r porter declined to answer hut resum Ing the role of questioner, aske 1 Mortensen Mor-tensen what Joh Charllp had worked on The BrKen Job If he was the mm I think he was HENRY I OOkINO TOR HIM lesterday morning within twelve hours of the conversation related H-nr, Mortensen brother of the prisoner called at the place where Helsgaun formerly lived In Sugar-house Sugar-house ward He Introduced himself to the lad, as Peter Mortensen s brother anl isked for Helsgaun He learned that Uelsgaun had removed the furniture furni-ture from the detached loom at the back of th house about n week after the Ha, murder and had written In Februar, from Ran Tranclsco that he wis about to go to Germany and would not write again for three months Henrj Mortensen borrowel a paper that had come for IMsgnun since his departure anl warned the landlady that If her knowledge became known she would be subpoenaed to court and placed on the wltne3 stand He also asked who had been to see her about Ihe matter AN AM Tl L'R DETCCTH I The name of Helsgaun has never been publicly connected with the Ha, case It Is a Dane but was generally re-fnel re-fnel to as Ole or The Terrible awede He had a mania for amileur detective work wore a tin star carried a cninmlssloi from an lullanapolls do tectlve ngency and delighted to get himself up In disguises and work on mjstcrlous crimes This sort of work was not ver, remunerat ve and he derived de-rived his Income b, cooking in 11 restnurnnt shingling he uses for Mor-temen Mor-temen sn 1 doing other odd Jobs Ho was considered somewhat mlerly by his londla I, mn he alwajs deposited his mne, In a. Wink 1 ut whnt lank she Is unabls to sa, He Informet her that he male large sums from his detective work but h, his own statement he received re-ceived but J10 per week for cooking and the in, for shingling was pot extrava-l,int extrava-l,int He kept ver. Irregular hours home nights he cime home ver, late n 1 on oth" s tut n all " Ml'I) ON CIOritlNf. On the morning of D'cemlcr rlh the day after the murder of Ha, anl the dn, before tl 0 discover, of Ihe body In tho Hell he waj se n hy tevetnl peoplo who noticed that Ms shoes ind the hot-I hot-I m of his long coit weie fieely spattetcd villi jell inud of tho same col r ns tho da, beside the lallroid Hack where II ij was inuidcred To his ac malntances he wns caieful to ex-I ex-I lain thit ho hn 1 leen attending n certain in'cth g In the Seventh watd meeting house the night I efore KMiVV vium ABOUT IT Oi the day of tho dlacover, of Idy s bod, he went v Ith a M net to the scene and istonlshel his companion b, tho caso with which he pointed 1 ut Ihe vailous Intel cstlng features of the scene anl the fimlllarit, ho showed with the muidei although none of thq details hrf 1 at that time an eared In print He ficel, dcclaiel that he cll I not believe Moitensen guilt, ns Mortensen dl I not have enough nerve ti lo it Vbout the same time he discussed the case with the lad, from whom he tinted his cabin and told her that Mortensen 1 )ulj not be guilt, 1 rom the 20th until the 2.nd er 23r1 of December he remalnel iiwa, from home Miout the 23rd hi appeared wllh nn exircss wagon mil announced that ho had sol I the furniture In his cabin which wns loadc 1 In the wagon and removed At tho name time he paid hln lan Had, for the irevlous months rent hhe wus Impressed hy this clrcumetiinie not only because of his sudden and unexpected romov il but tocuuie It was the Hist month tint Helsgiun had failed to pi, hla tent on the 10th of the month KNITW HUt, OK nUIXI T, The joung man was mnttantl, read-lner read-lner and talking about the liny rase Ho clipped the news of the case fiom tho mi ere nnl cairlcd It with hlip In an argument about Ihe slzo of the bullet In Hays head hn took 1 JS-caliber JS-caliber cartridge from bis levolver, Bhowed It to the Men 1 who hn I visited visit-ed tho scene of the murder with him and sill It was a bullet like this ' Tho statement was male befo-e the bullet taken from the wound had been wcighet ant while It wai genernll, bel eved to be of 44 cillber WHOTI 1IIOM C VMFOKMV fter l-avlng his Ik me In huiir house ward three blocks Crom the Mor. tensen residence nn I disposing of his goods Helsgaun Ilngere I In town for fix weeks llu slopping pi ire Is lot Known Late In frobruai, his Ian Hi ly reeelved the following lettei In, his handwiltlng Mrs J,"j5llln ' cal 1 ebriiar, the lMh n.'i"im .",' .Present stopping In O ikla t I".. 1 ."'! In "f 1"1 ("Its are w illtng Ihe lien leliver, department al d kt m I 11 it do not seni me my alvertlslng mil lii ' milBtil jour Are with them 1 lei e Unl rnlnieil i " icni .(ami s 1 esi e t m, monthl, pai r tr m letectlve he il on iriers In Iudinnai oils i lease le sure anl send it He tlrst time If am m rr letter thsu tin nre ti r mo stale s. n la k of no or Ihe envelopes anl 1 will ei 1 ad lltlon il stnmis Hesiettillv t-nl "C'"E1"" Ut" '"liver, Oiklml week ntterwmd a i otnl rare! which Ins since leen destrojed cnnio from hin I i in leco Helsgiun tui 1 on the t ml thai he w is itinu tu t ,l low a man n i,erman, mil woult senl his address or icturn In about three mouths ihln Is the last woi I th it his come from him The onl, null that arrived for lilm was the letectlve Journil mention 1 In his letter which cairn itl r tl e le still caul wns ircelvel This i ip i l now in the han hi if Hcmy .M irun ten . Hs N L1BI Whitever tharles llilsguin may know atout the murder f 11 ij, he wna not iiesent when the cilme was nin milled On Ihe conliar, he vvhh r tnlillrlilnt, the le.t i ossiblo alibi l nit s eicliik In went ti a dciiJiiB meeting at the heventh Win 1 imetlnR-house imetlnR-house to volunteer his seivl e to ii cover a sicramcnt set tint hut I cm stolen a. few eli,sl,tiie Tin quoium j, u'ut"1"' I lonil cil him S.i If e woul 1 ellHovet the Hunt, and the unci 'UK, adjouined about I o e Ii ck 1 ut Hclgaun dll not go nwiij rh ,ouug men were ireiarlic, tho bulldli g for u ilince anl tlu elelcitlvc slajel in the crowd entertnlnlng tho snullcr bo,s with thrilling tales of his cn s until 11 o i lock when he stirtel nnth on West remile stint ni,li he was going lo the Oregon hhort 1 Ine ih ,i Mtv.?"" L10t "" ut ,,,! 'ul,ot "" ntgnt nnd his next "I earan e w n em the follow Inc. morning when ho a! tl"? ell.w cla, ui u his feet mil coat Then came his visit t u,e grave bin hurried removal riom the vklnlt, ?L IS!e?t 'J,'? nnl hl" 1p" 1rtuio from the Htute followed h, his postal nil telling of his piopose 1 trip lo tier Helsgaun s pirenls were s il 1 h, him i?i !"" '," ,n r,'1' "U"S "' rred erlcshavn Denmnrk A statement which If true goes far to conllrm Ileltriunr 1 nowllge of ,r!? tncU' '1 """1e b ,l eellmnlo Lin i?iLe,i,"I " '!' Bn" ,h,t Morten-sen Morten-sen talked In IiIh sleep of getting Charlie nut of the wa, "iing wi' ,'Lh 1 J!,,1 ",,"" ic.olver that nnufiJ" k" "' muih hnt his E,1"1'"" I"-? H1 le evpMnet Jv.e ,rB .to "ho" ,hlt Moitensen ever had such n weapon the failure to d srover It In the ponl near the grave )'"N;""i InlllTrtne whe, tn i thit the revolver ha I leen found anl K" an.?,2, Ht the mention of the fnc that Helsgaun had a "S cillber gun Moreover it Is extremely unlikely that :llfl " '"lh for' ?my terles woull Iran anl take lack his roin.Mr,HW.'.,h0"t knolns the purpos? fuT. .hJch " """ ,""'1 " ' src pos liiri.,hV ""."" ne.h'"1 rl",rc'1 "l n a h',H ?',alT "" m,Kht h,e 'ml Hay disposing of the I dy of TAISK llFPOrtT OF CONI- TSSIOV report gained some rlrrulatlon jesterdn, thit Mortensen hat con- fer-ed to being guilt, hid told where L.rnrf7 vl'.a ,Vhlch ,nP h"' "hot was tired Is hllden and had drawn a map of the locallt, where tho gun lie. The prisoner to vhom Me i uiii Is sail to have made such n confession vigor. ouMj denies the report Morteraen Hlso entered a denial branding ihe ?r? hmmnt."". W". lo coi''niptlhle l. l Jalk alv"" Mortensen ii fiH?. fi" 'ln', th" nuthvrltles also be. .il. "T ,r'port "" ""leers after n thorough Investigation snjlng It li entirely without foundation |