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Show TELL FROM WINDOW MINER MEETS DEATH IN SALT LAKE TENDERLOIN. Belief Expressed That Unfortunate Man Was Thrown From a Third Story Window by a Negro, Who Is Under Arrest. With his skull crushed and one leg broken, C. R. West, a miner from the Deep Creek country, was picked up from the pavement south of the American rooming house at 15 Commercial Com-mercial street, Salt Lake City, Monday Mon-day night and carried to the Holy Cross hospital, where he died Tuesday morning. He was unconscious when found by pedestrians, lying in a big pool of blood. He never regained consciousness. con-sciousness. ! The miner had fallen from a third : story window of the rooming house, a distance of more than forty feet. How j he came to fall is a mystery that has not been cleared up. Suspicious cir-1 cumstances lead the police to believe he was pushed out of the window with murderous intent. Ike Hughes, a negro ne-gro ex-convict, is being held in jail pending the investigation of circumstances circum-stances that the officers believe may involve him on a charge of murder. Hughes is known to have quarreled with West Sunday night. Evidence has been secured that he threatened bodily harm to the miner. According to his own statement to the police, he was on the third floor about the time that West went through the window. The ex-convict denies knowing anything any-thing about the affair, and if anyone saw it he has taken pains to keep the secret. |