Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 36 | Miner Slain; Body Found in Stairway

l r. r MINER SLAIN 5 BODY FOUND IN STAIR STAIRS I S Probable Victim of Murder r i. i and Robbery Discovered i 1 t tand ft in Rear Icar of Saloon r e t SKULL BA BATTERED I tr tl Police Have No Clew Clev t ifa tE Slayer Who ho Used Window Win do dow Weight r eight b v I I iii Ih S. lit IS skull crushed In and bt his hie pockets H HIS HS rifled riled of all al valuables the hod bOd o ori s I I IJohn John Fredrickson a a Finn 30 years ear of age was found short f fore tore midnight lying at the toot foot ot of t th staIrs stalls In lit u a A saloon aloon at 68 street stroet Near Neur the bo body Y was waa lon cast iron window weight or with blood bloot It I Is believed In Ih belee police pOlee circles that Fredrickson was as lured t to W JT tho the rear rea of or the saloon and murdered to J Ms Ifs money The skull wa was crushed I h at tho the ba back lt of or the head Indicating th thaS 0 1 ho was struck from the roar rear with th heavy weight weight j Il Tho The discovery wa was waa made by a po porte fe k In tho the saloon The stairway lenain Te ay from the tho main floor of or the bar at the tha the rear car to the engine room In the base ment The bod body was bud huddled In a 5 pool of ot blood at the toot foot of ot the stairs stairs against a closed cosed door e Fredrickson hind hall been bean drinking in th saloon for Cor several hours houra during the the- evening and Is known to have had con conJ ef money with wih him cn it Dr fly I ly no one saw him leave the bar roo and go to the rear He I is not know rooth t to have left lef the saloon with any one one I t tand and no one wag waB as seen een to follow from th the place lilace Colow hI S Ib ti Tho The dead dad man according to the POI 41 Ic lice came camo to to Salt a t Lal Lake e Tuesday from r Gold Hill lUl Utah wh where re h he has hns working tot for several deveral months month as a Officers sa say that several times he lIe t ex exhibited ex ex- a large roll tol of ot bills In valou 2 saloons on Commercial street n r No Xo one was able to throw an any ugh on tho killing and ane not enough sua- sua tel pointed to any one to warrant their being locked up tho the officers say r Fredrickson had roomed at a the Wan Wal dorf dort hotel since his hlis arrival at in Salt to Lake The he bod body was ws removed to th tn tha-tn undertaking rooms of ot ODonnell O'Donnell ODonnel C J where an Inquest and autopsy wIl will b 1 probably be held S later wl I