Show I CASE GASE OF MURDER H 18 I SUSPECTED Body Found Near Layton Iden Identified Ident Identified as That of John JohnL N NL t L Atkenson CORONER IS INVESTIGATING A I M N IS BEING HELD HELDON ON SUS SUSPICION I C ION I S Special to The Tile Herald f t Kaysville I tt Sept 14 The mangled body found r und between en tile the rails of or the Oregon Short Line railroad tl it i quarter of a mile milt from Layton Laton Wednesday morning has been positively identified as us that of John lr Ii Atkinson a native of or Sal Ivy icy K who lived Jived in that place until he came to the west In 1904 There is the strongest s rong st suspicion that he was a victim of or foul Coul play pIa and the I coroners jury has hus ha continued its Inesti investigation gation gatlon until Saturday morning in order to inquire more closely into the case As a result of the suspicion su of foul play Walter Bastion a n transient is held by the sheriff on Oll instruction from the coroners jury jur Bastion has a brother Elmer Bas Bastion Bastion tion a u barber living in Salt Lake Owing to the time fact that no money could be found in the clothing of oC the tho dead man and because he had money mone when he left Kaysville it is believed that he was mur mar dered and that robbery was the motive Hands and Feet Cut Off From investigations made today toda it was found that th mans feet and hands had llad been cut off and that there rc was no blood on the time shoes A large l rge pool of blood was found In the grass at the side of a n fence near the railroad track at a point a little littie distance from where the mangled body was wa found Another pool 1001 of blod i was found between the fence and the tile rail railroad railroad I I I road track and there is one place on the grading some ome distance from where the body bed was found where whore it appears as us though there had been a struggle The identification of the tile body was made by J Will Wiil Gray and a clothier nan ed Hall from Salt Lake They identified time tile clothing worn by the dead man mun as us hav hay having havIng haying ing been purchased by b Atkinson on Wednesday Atkinson made several pur purchases purchases purchases chases from Hall lIan and made payment with witha a check Gray Grav was acquainted with the theman theman theman man and Identified the articles worn as having been sold by him to Atkinson during durins the week weck From the time investigations made today it was learned that Atkinson was a school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher who has been in tie the t e west since 1901 His former home was In Salyersville Ky anti and am his father A T Atkinson lives there thieve at this time timet t After coming west Atkinson located in inV Wyoming V oming where he engaged In ranching He left leet Wyoming and went to Kaysville l Utah taah in October of the th same year He lie taught school at Layton La ton during the win winter winter ter of 1904 lOGi and in 1905 went to California where he spent the winter Ho Ha returned in the tile spring and nd during the last few months had b en n Garfield Was Going to Teach School Atkinson had recently accepted a tion at Sanpete county as a teacher and had hud left his position at Gar Gam Garfield field fold to prepare for that work Atkinson went to Suit SnIt Lake lust Wednesday and purchased a complete out outfit ou fit of clothing He purchased a hat at Gray Gra Bros and this helped to complete the identification Uon After completing his purchases Atken Atkenson Atkenson Atkenson son took the Oregon Short Line train at in the evening but found that the train was not scheduled ta to stop at Layton He went as far as Syracuse Junc June Junction Junction tion where he boarded a southbound freight for Layton That was the last seen of him alive His mangled body was discovered on the railroad track by Bastion astion who reported the discovery to the th authorities a Miss Hazel Snyder Sn der and Ed He Dawson of or Salt Lake have been subpoenaed to give ive further testimony concerning tile the identity of the body They were friends of At Atkinson A Akinson Atkinson kinson The members of the coroner s a Swan of Kaysville Jo Joseph UIO are George U YU wv k j soph seph H Allen Alien and William Ramsey Ramee of Layton S |