Show MURDER MYSTERY W PARTLY CLEARE 0 UP HAUNTED BY FEAR BURGLAR TELLS POLICE HIS WIFE WAS KILLED BY ROBBERS declares woman who was mur lored 1 near county jail in salt lake was beaten to death and robbed of worth of jewels salt lake city A murder mystery which engaged the attention of the police of meyeral cities in the c country auntry the tragedy occurring in salt lake was practically solved at chicago on december 9 when a man giving his name as howard deweese and his age as 31 years walked into the detective bureau of the chicago police department and acknowledged that a woman who was murdered in salt lake on a night about the of september was his wife de weese admitted to the authorities that he was a burglar and t that at he he was guilty of a number of crin crimes but declared that he was not guilty of the murder of the woman his story as detailed to the police my name Is howard deweese I 1 am a burglar burgar camf on september 20 in salt lake my wife was murdered her diamonds valued at were stolen I 1 fled because I 1 was afraid with my record I 1 would be accused of the murder I 1 want to clear myself under the name of C D robbins I 1 had been employed in a haberdashery in new york city and in november 1916 eloped to reno nov nev with the wife of the proprietor mrs harry fisher mrs fisher obtained a divorce in reno in august 1916 and a few days later she and I 1 were married there deweese claimed that lie he and his wife came to salt lake and that while he was away 1 from their apartments his wife was murdered and her diamonds monds s and jewel staken the mutilated body of a woman was found september 24 in a room at south second east iler her head had been beaten almost beyond recognition tion lon and the body was partially decomposed indications ivere were that she had been dead at least three days near the bed on the floor was a flatiron wrapped in a bloody towel with a man who represented himself as her husband and who gave his name as D C robbins they engaged the apartment three days before the body was discovered robbins bobbins was missing and the police and sheriffs force began a search on the theory chrt he had slain the woman the body of the murdered woman was burled buried in the potters field after all efforts to identity identify her had failed |