Show THOMAS RHOADES MURDERERS ON TRIAL Mexican all and Indian no Boys nos s and Their Theil Girl Gid Companions Before Judge and umI Jm Jury In Vernal District Court Two boys bos and two girls charged with the murder of Thomas Rho Rhoades in his cabin on Farm creek c eek above Whiterocks while he lie was wa in bed hed on the night of September 26 are on OIl trial in the district dl cour court at Vernal at I Ernest Trujillo 18 ana and his Ills sister Nellie Trujillo 17 17 are tire Mexicans H Harris Murray IS IS' and Elinore Van 1 G. G ar are half haIr breed Indians It Is not charged tl that that- t the girls actually took part in ii 11 the crime but that they knew new of the the- plans and witnessed th crime without protest They are arether ther therefore rore charged with complicity After Arter the m murder der in in We the ranell ran ranch h cabin the body was loaded into an anaut aut automobile m bile and nd convoyed conveyed to Merkley draw ten miles away n near ar the Tru Tm- Trujillo I jl lo home and buried Just before it It was wa dumped waW-dumped into tho the shallow grither grave gri- there ther were signs of returning life One boy gr grabbed a rock ock and crushed crusi crush ed in the skull I Robbery was was was' the object of the murder but not much money was us found The boy boys boys' and girls then fled fied The gIrls gills g were soon lIl picked ked up lu In Salt Lake and th the thc boys jn jJ m l EJ r Nevada Since that time time the the tour four QUI confined in the have hn been hin In county jail at vernal Tho The boys and girls are being bing tried separately separ the boys first They TIley would have entered a plea of of guilty but after utter being informed that such sucha a plea pich means a death sentence they entered a plea of not guilty The jury may then recommend mercy The election of ot a jury was completed com com- corn com Wednesday night and one witness was examined The rial of bf bf the boys will consume the entire I week it is thou thought ht The prosecution is represented by District Attorney M. M B. B Pope anu ann County Attorney J. J T. T McConnell l. l The defendants are represented by T. T W. W ODonnell n- n |