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Show The Bountiful Murder. Territorial Attorney General Snow returned from Bountiful last evening, where he has been conducting a two dayV investigation of the recent horrible hor-rible murder at that place. The Perkins brothers and John Adams, husband" of the deceased, were arrested ar-rested on suspicion, and the examia-ation. examia-ation. was most thorough in even-particular. even-particular. Upward of twenty-fi'e twenty-fi'e ' witnesses testified, but nothing was elicited that would cast a shadow of guilt upon the accused, hence they were discharged. Tne officers also loaded guna and fired them through the window, when it was clearly demonstrated that the killing was not done in that manner, as at first supposed. The shots shattered shat-tered the glass to fine bits, and threw some of the pieces across the room against the opposite vad. The al-mo al-mo t universal impression is that the shooting was done by gome one on the inside, but by whom is the question ques-tion which apparently cannot be answered. Instead of being cleared up this aflair grows more bidden bid-den and darker every day. The officers and the people of Bountiful have done everything in their power to unravel the mystery, but their efforts have been fruitless, and it now appears the murderer will only be discovered when the secret acts of men are revealed. |