Show BRUTA11 MURDER nON IN OUIEI < LAYTON t 1 Watchman San1a11 KilledJIn Cold Blood t i + DISCOVERY MADE YESTERDAY ORIjING Indications That a Burglar Cm mitted the teed 4 Officers Working On the Case But Find Few CluesItewards Offered Formal Verdict Brought In By the Coroners JU171any Elements Ele-ments of Mystery About the Awful Aw-ful AffairTheVictim a Quiet and Popufux citin I t Special Cdrrespondcnce KaysvilIe March 29Thom San dall flightwatchman of the Faimers Union general merchandise store at Layton was murdered in cold blood by nn unknown party some time luring last night His dead body cold and rigid was found stretched at full length on the floor this morning about six feet from the couch on which he was wont to sleep with a ghastly hole the size of amanlshand blown into his right cheek The terrible deed is believed to have been committed about midnight The murderer has succeeded In so effectually effectu-ally obliterating any clues that might lead to his apprehension that the Of ficers of the law are balled at every turn in the investigation that they are making Ot an article has been missed from the store though the murderer had every opportunity to loot the premIses after his victim was dead This fact almost forces one to the conclusion that rObbery was not intended What then was thepurpose of the assassin To this question no satisfactory answer an-swer can be given lit this time Diligent Dili-gent inquiry has been made today by The Herald correspondent and no one in Layton is able to pay that Mr San dall had an enemy m the world He was possessed of such an amiable mild and inoffensive disposition that he drew men to him and made friends of all of his acquaintances If robbery had been planned then it is certain that the burglar had not counted upon finding the store guarded and when he found it necessary to his own safety to kill the watchman he refrained from carrying out his orig inal design for fear tl1at stolen goods might lead to his identification It will be seen therefore that the I whOle affair is envel6pecl in mystery so impenetrable that detection of the I criminal will be difficult The murdered man Mr Sandal was last seen alive when the clerks clQsed the store at about 8 oclock last night At that time Sandall was in the store I as usual ready to take chtarge of the premises during the night as he had t been doing ever since 1893 He carried a key to the east front door and his custom had been 11 go home in the I morning before the hour for business arrived He had a couch in the center of the store about midway between I the east and west doors so that any I disturbance at either door would arouse him As an additional precaution against the possibiiity of burglary a cowbell hangs on the front door and a string of sleighbells depends from the knob of the west door which is also very I + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 + + i + + + + 14 + + + l + d + + + I ii LI 1 I + TBJOTYLAS SANDALL TB IflJBDLR MAE + + + + + + + ± + + + ± + + + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + 4 + + 4 + + 44 + + heavIly barred and doubly locked THE CRIME DISCOVERED The first that was known of the crime came to light when James E Ellison bookkeeper of the Farmers Union went to work rut 725 this morning morn-ing He was accompanied to the store by T J OBrien one of tie clerks As Mr Ellison opened the front door the dlang of the cowbell attracted his attention at-tention as the watchman had usually removed it from the door before leaving leav-ing 11r Ellison hung the ben up and as he did so he was startled by an exclamation ex-clamation from his companion who had passed him and walked down to i the center of the dimlylighted store It required but a moment for the young men to grfisp the terrible situation that presented itself before them There lay the faithful watchman in a clotted pool of his own lifes blood where he hM fallen when the full contents con-tents of a shotgun cartridge had struck him in the face The body was cold and rigid It lay fiat upon the back with the right arm near the side and the left extended full length on the ffoir The dead man 1aSI clad in a blue twill shirt and trousers but no stockings or shoes He had evidently evi-dently been awakened by a noise and arose from hIs couch A few steDs tQ ward the lamp had been taken probably prob-ably in order to light it and then it would seem that hearing a noise near the foot of his bed he had wheeled around facing his assailant just as the shot was fired As he fell blood must have sDurted from the awful gaping wound and spattered the counters count-ers and floor for several feet in all r1i rections from his head Death was necessarily instantaneous Justice of the Peace A B Cook was at once notified and he soon arrived at the store and impaneled a jury which was in session at intervals during the day The jurors were Henry Ellls Samuel Norman and E E Ellison THE WOUND When an examination of the bodY was made it was found that every shot from the cartridge had entered the face The oint of entrance was near the point of the right cheek bone and the entire upper jaw the right eye and half of the nose was torn awaY and driven into the cavity of his hed A peculiar thIng is that not a shot carne out of the head though th whole chare ranged a little upward and is evidently lodged just above the left ear The weapon With which the deed was done was a 12gauge shotgun and the shot used was No 4 or 5 An emnty shell was found about noon under a granary nearby that had just been exploded ex-ploded and this may yet assist in detecting de-tecting the criminal It was a Winchester Winches-ter paper shotgun shell of the Blue Rival brand A wad found near the body just fits the shell There is much conjecturp as to how the assassin contrived to enter the store without arousing the watchman i who is said to have been so light a sleener that one low call to him was sufficient to awaken him at an hour of the night Of course entrance was nQt matle through either door That would be impossible No windows were disturbed and all of the lower windows win-dows are heavily barred Even the chute through which coal is shoveled into the basement is covered with a grating of twoinch bars Pot iron This grate can be moved but it is fastened inside The theory of many persons is that this chute was the vulnerable point of the building and that it was through it that ingress was made Tracks in the coal would indicate that some one had entered there and then closed the grating after him But it is stoutly affirmed by the employees that it was locked last night and hence the Query is How could it be unfastened un-fastened from without A bar of iron that would pass through the grate might do the work and just such a bar Was found in an old well nearby this morning It is said that the same bar of iron WaS lying by the building yesterday Once imid of the basement the intruder in-truder would have no difficulty in goIng up the steDs into the store and his coming upthe steps might have aroused arous-ed the watchman just in time to meet his death ANOTHER THEORY I Another theory is that Mr Sandal had stepped outside during the night and that during his absence the fellow had slipped in while there are others who incline to the belief that he entered en-tered the tore before the closing hour last night and creted himself until his opportunity came Still others think the watchman might have been called and that he opened the door to admit as he supposej a friend who might desire de-sire to purchase some medicine In the absence of anything definite to base an opinIon upon each of these theories is believed by some < While it is clear that if robbery was intended the purpose was abandoned after the shooting still it seems that an effort was made by the intruder to make the robbery theory seem pausble The money till on the north side or the store had been opened and searched but it contained nothing of value but a few coppers and they were not taken The safe was untouched A pistol that the dead man had to dew fend himself is miming and it might have formed a good clue but for the tact that no one knows the make of the pistol It was however a 38c31iber weapon The keys to the front door were also taken but after the murderer had gone outside he threw them under a granary where they have since been found Instead of uSing the keys to unlock the front door and let himself out that way the cUlprit had it is presumed become be-come frightened of detection if he went out at the front and he therefore re Continued on Page n 8RUTAL MURiR 1 e2d wOJ pmunuo < move the bar a heavynite of Um be from the bacK ertrMce whIch IS secured by double doors closing together to-gether and the he or an accomplice from the outside swayed the door inward in-ward until the locks gave away I was rumored tli afternoon tat William Flint who was passing about twenty rods frOm the Farmers Union building on his way home from wont at 12 oclok last night heard a muffled noise sud noIs resembling a door closing deniy in the direction of the store but he did not investigate thinking it was of little consequence He now believes It may have been the gunshot This is the only thing that might indicate the hour at which the tragedy occurred GYPSY CAM Two gypsy camps that are located be tweon Kaysile and Layton were searched this afternoon for clues but serce ateroon nothing suspicious was found Several < have been arrested and searched but no light has yet been thrown on the mysterious afar Sheriff Abbott and his deputy at Layton Lay-ton WillIam B Nad r assisted by John H Blood city marshal of Kays vie ha been at work on the case all day Sheriff Howell of Salt Lake county came up this morning and has been assisting as-sisting in the case He went home this afternoon The officers are very reticent an nothing c be learned fro the as to what are their suspicions Sheriff Abbott this afternoon offered a reward of 100 for the arrest and conviction con-viction of Mr SadaUs murderer and E P Ellison supplemented this wit ian i-an offer of 400 reward This aeng he coroners jury finished fin-ished its investigation and returned the following verdict A inquest having bee held at Farmers Far-mers Union store in Layton precinct on larch 29 before A B Cook justice of the peace upon the body of Thomas SandalS there lying dead by the jurors hOe names are hereunto subsCribed do upon their oaths say that between = the hours of 8 p m on March 28 antI 720 a m on March 29 IS99 the said Thomas San al came to his death by l being lot by rome person or persons f to us unknown the weapon used be ting t-ing a shotgun hotgnTE DEAD MAN f Thomas Sandal was born at King I ton England on Iay 1 1845 At an early age he migrated with his family ito i-to South Africa where they remained until lS6 ten coming to Lay to The unt COnng deceased marrId a daughter of John Weaver of Layton The funeral will take place at the family residence on Friday at 1 p mAt m-At Police Headquarters Regarding the story in the News last t evening that at police headquarters a certain man uas suspected of committing commit-ting the murder at Layton was pronounced pro-nounced without any real foundation bj the officers lat night The particular particu-lar individual was mentioned In a conversation con-versation regarding the tragedy and his record in police circlei was brought I up Sergeaat Janney said he had seen him near Price several months ago but did not state thatie had seen him in Davis county a few days age Nothing Noth-ing was really developed to base a sue lCiOfl against the man Detective Gil lespie said he was juCt learning the circumstances of the affair alien the News reporter called and he remarked that the perpetrator would not bead toward the city andrlk being captured |