Salt Lake Herald | 1909-07-31 | Page 1 | Girl May Have Been Murdered

GIRL r MAY AY HAVE BUN Suspicious Circumstances in Connection With Drowning of Margaret Tacoma Wash July 30 A new phase I of or the drowning of Margaret aged 17 while rowing with John Flynn FI n last Sunday developed today when the father of the girl declared that the body was found on the banks of a slough and not on the beach of the bay as heretofore hereto Core reported The slough sloUCh is narrow and shallow The girls tattered undergarment has been placed in the safe Bate of at the prosecuting pro prosecuting ing attorneys office The mother says MYS that when her daughter put on this gar garment garment ment merit on Sunday morning It was perfect perfectly ly I sound Flynn admits l that he might have torn it when he loosened the girls clothing after the drowning but bOt be strenuously denies that he attacked her or mistreated her herin herin herIn in any way arid add sticks to his hla story that He tried to rescue macno her when their boat best cap capsized sized alsed alsedA A coroners jury had returned a verdict that the girl met death by drowning II