Show SALT LAKE TRUNK MYSTERY the supposed victim to I 1 living and has H F fit III kit identity chicago april 19 oliver pike the supposed oved victim of the salt lake utah trunk r mystery hits has turned up hellas he has written to liis his mother and fr friends lends at li 0 0 where his body was supposed to be rep reposing in a grave in the fayette cemetery and after meeting with some home opposition hns has succeeded ceded in establishing his identity pike it aclus clus disappeared from salt L lake i e in 1894 and according to his own story went to to puget sound and later to california where he is known as harry price lie he assigns no reason for changing his darne tile the history of the trunk mystery is is follows in the summer hummer of 1831 1 a man took to the union pacific freight depot in salt lake a box bos which lie he shipped to chicago ashou goods paying payin the freight thereon the box was waa never delivered and after lying around for two years the company sold it at auction to get storage charges the box bos was found to contain and the trunk a sealed zinc case con taing the decomposed remains of a human being there had bad disappeared I 1 1 about theotime the time of the shipment of tile the box a frenchman named prosser chaz zel ills ilia friends at once claimed it to be his boddin the trunk believing he had been murdered for the jewels he usually wore an ancla of pike however appeared in chicago and identified the remains as those of pike and secured them for interment it has since ince developed abathe stated prove they were rikes pikes remains it if it cot cost him the settlement of an estate tate being involved |