Show HOMICIDE BEREAVES SALT LAKE F FAMILY Y Mrs William Wilcox and Six Children Are Left to Mourn Through Tragedy SLAYER AND WIFE SILENT NEITHER WILL TELL WHY FATAL SHOTS WERE TIRED By the tragedy at Mill Fork yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day when William Wilcox a bridge foreman was killed a Salt Lake family consisting of f the mother and six chil children children I dren are left loft without a supporter Mrs Wilcox who lives In Ninth West street between Second and Third South streets left for Provo yesterday morn morning mornIng morning ing when she was notified of the kill killing ing lug of her husband body is isnow isnow now nov In Provo where the Inquest will willbe willbe willbe be held J eld Special to The Provo May MD 8 Claude H Clive Cure 1 lof of Salt Lake a bridge carpenter who has been working In a bridge gang for the th Denver Rio Grande Railway Hallway company at Mill Fork In tn Spanish Fork canyon about miles from Provo is In the county count Jail and will be charged with the murder of William Wilcox foreman of the bridge gang the killing of whom was described In this morn mornIngs mornings mornIngs Ings Wilcox was in the boarding car c r when he Ire was shot by Clive near Mill Fork at t 1045 1015 Saturday night with r to automatic pistol Three shots entered the right breast one of which penetrated the heart and two lodged lower down In the back on the loft l rt side Death Instantaneous Death Heath was instantaneous and word was sent to Sheriff George Judd In Provo who notified Deputy Sheriff Gardner at Thistle Th The latter went to Mill Fork getting there about two hours after the shooting Olive live was placed under arrest and this morning Sheriff Judd and Deputy Sheriff A C Hales went from Provo and returned with Clive and the body of Wilcox dive live lve Is about 30 years ears of age His wife accompanied him to Provo and andUs andus Us lis mother came down from Salt Lake and antl met the party here refuses absolutely absolute to make a statement or to allow his wife to do doso doso doso so except to say that the report pub published lashed this morning that he tried to jet iet et away is erroneous and In this ho hoIs hoIs hoIs Is borne out by b the officers Women Woman oman In the Case Cane The report Is that Clive came to the boarding car where he and his wife wU had sleeping apartments at about lo 1045 45 last night He had come down from Salt Lake on train No S about 10 1 minutes before Wilcox also slept n this car There was a small boy sleeping in the next car All he Knows Is that he heard two shots live Clie Is said to have heard h ard his wife making a remonstrance to some seine one and hurriedly entered The fatal hots allots were fired a moment later These aroused the entire gang Clive admitted the killing and waited for forthe forthe forthe the sheriff His demeanor indicated that he arid and his wife are not estranged and that whatever the cause of the shooting no blame is attached to toh her h r Wilcox came from Kansas City to Utah about three years ago He is 42 12 years of age and has followed railroad sixteen years ears He worked a year and a half at Bingham Junction and one year In Salt Lake He came to Provo povo last lat August He has a family of his widow and six chil children children children dren on Ninth West street be between between between tween Second and Third South streets Mrs Wilcox Is almost prostrated over the traffic tra c event Clive live is apparently trying to con control control control his nerves and successfully so although from his appearance he fully full realizes the seriousness of the cir clr circumstances circumstances In iu which he Is a central figure His wife also appears to be under a strain but is although there were wore evidences of tears ard and grief when she arrived here One tine of the peculiar features of the tragedy Is that Clive while in Salt Lake purchased for Wilcox the auto automatic automatiC matic revolver from which the shots were fired that ended his life A 4 |