Show ALLEGED SLAYER IS I HELD FOR TRIAL Barge Said to Have Confessed Confessed Confessed Con Con- to Murder of J Joseph Yeah Veah Herald S Special ecla Provo June 3 Alex Alec Alex Barge alleged to have confessed to the murder of ot Joseph Veah was given gi a 1 preliminary hearing In Judge J. J B B. Tuckers Tucker's c court urt today and bound over to tho the district court on a first do degree ree murder charge According to testimony Barge laid in wait walt for tor Veah on the night of ot May 15 and as as' the latter returned l froin work at tho the Standard mine struck truck him on oil the head with an ax LX almost severing th the head from Crom the body The Tho story of ot the murder Is told b by witnesses as follows Months ago Veah Yeah camo came tp Dividend where is lo located located located lo- lo Standard mine penniless and without a 1 place to sleep or eat Barge loaned him money and ami took look him into his cabin Later ho got hot Yeah Veah a 3 job Yeah Veah is alleged to have shown his gratitude b by winning the affections ns of oC Dar Barges Barge's oR common law wife wiCe and to have married her about two months be before Core the murder Tho The woman I Is said to bo lIo pretty about 28 years of oC age ago and has two children one b by bya a n. former husband and the second by bV Barge Bare Just lust before tho the marriage of ot Veah Yeah and tho the w woman man Barge left lert Tintic Tintic Tin Tin- tic and nd went to Nevada but upon word reaching reaching- him that Yeah Veah and his former Cormer sweetheart had been boen quarreling quarreling and having trouble he returned lie He carpe to the camp on the Thursday previous to 10 tho the d day he ho was said to 10 have done the tho killing He lie hid behind the cabin near the wood pile and as ns Yeah Veah came off ot shift he struck him several I blows blos with tho the axe knocking knocking- him wn when hen ho is alleged to have drove dro t t blado blade loop deep in his head just below the therl rl right hl ear Barge Bargo flied ran witnesses state and was leas followed lI by two men who heard the blow and also Yeah's dinner pail strike the ground g When he was caught h by these n iTjen en lie he threw up his hii han hands s sand and surrendered and was taken In charge by Deputy Deput Sheriff Sheri Patrick ICe Kelly 1 h County Count Sheriff Williams was the only witness placed on tho stand |