Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-08 | Page 12 | Hagis Murdered Police Believe

i HAGIS MURDERED EDi i POLICE BELIEVE j jB B Body dy Found Near Saltair Depot 3 W Wounds in I Plead Head 3 Men Ten Held I II I With two holes in his head which tho the police say might have been caused by a n. soft nosed bullet or a pick the body of ot a 0 man man who was later Identified identified fied tied as George Hn Hagis liagis ls a resident of Minneapolis was wae found Cound near the Saltair Saltair Saltair Salt- Salt air depot earl early yesterday morning by Patrolman G 0 O. O B B. Hamby Tho The police believe the man was a murdered about midnight Sunday night and that the crime took tool place where a the body was found An examination of or the head hend revealed three throe wounds one on each side Bide and andone ono one on the tho back Tho officers think the holo hole at the back was caused by bythe bytho bytho tho the mans man's h head ad striking the pavement as he ho fell toll One of oC the tho holes at the tho side of ot the head was found to bo be small while tho the other Is in much larger This led tho the police to believe that the man was WIlS shot with a soft nosed bullet bulJat which would cause a small hole whore where It entered and spreading tear a larger ono one at It its exit they sa say Nothing was wat found in tho mans man's clothes except a pocket knife which bore bolo the name namo of or John P I Minneapolis Minn Mian linn Tho The officers finally discovered three Greeks who 1 Identified the man as George Hagis The They said ho had cometo como come comoto comoto to Salt Lake from two or three days ago ngo Tho The police later Inter said tho they had located a Q nephew of the dead deadman od man In Pocatello G Gor George orge e ITches 22 23 Louis 25 25 and George 32 were held h by bythe bythe the police until the case could be further fur urther ur- ur ther then Il investigated The Tho officers claim that two of these theao men were playing cards with Hagis 18 at a n. coffee corree house at W S South street at nt about 3 S p p. p m m. m Sunda Sunday and that Hagis' Hagis suitcase was found in the tho possession of at the oth other or