Show USED A SLEDGE HAMMER British Columbia Man Kills Cotta Com Companion panion in Brutal Manner Seattle Se July ItA A special 8 to th the Times from New Westminster Wes sa says say young men William Springer Spring and Edward EdVard Thompson living in a Shack on a ranch near here her h after atter se sev v oral ai days of f drinking got sot a ru row last night and aad nobody knows what about Springer seized a sledge ham hammer hammer mer hier and went after alter his companion A V 1 small boy passing heard cries and ami ran to the house In n time to 10 0 see Springer strike several blows with his weapon The boy summoned help When V hen the men arrived arrive on the scene the Gie house hous was on fire fil Sponger r told tl to the men m n he had fixed Thompson When the tire fire was extinguished at t first no trace could be found of Thompson Thompsons Th ons s body but it was later found hidden in ina Ina a clump dump of bushes near ny y v in i a horribly mangled condition Sog e an ai i 1 while the fire wa na being i 1 Provincial police are as Lo o 0 t tn c 0 I r J t c |