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Show MOST BRUTAL MURDER. 5alt Lake Workman Strangled and Beaten to Death by Thugs. Salt Lake City. John C. Barnett, 10 years old, a painter, was brutally murdered and then robbed some time .etween 12:30 o'clock Thursday morning morn-ing and noon Thursday in a lodging louse On Commercial street, and thorlly after the crime was discov-. discov-. red Hugh Meyers, 19 years old. a ine-legged man. was arrested on suspicion, sus-picion, as on his clothing and crutch .vas fresh blood Barneft. while under the influence of liquor, was enticed to the lodging house, which is conceded by tin- police po-lice to be the lowest dive in the city, ind at the hands of two or three men, the exact number not being known, was strangled and beaten to death in he most horrible manner imaginable, ills face was beaten to a jelly and all over the body are large cuts and bruises. The weapon used by the slayer Is not known. |