Show evi BENCE ABOUT WEEKS I 1 more about his doings while mile living at mapleton IVIa HIS ABSENCES FROM HOME one of them tallies with the date on 1 which the pelican point murders write committed when he come home lie he was driving a team that taft t corresponded to the team owned by the murdered boys boysa A weigh neighbor helped hel ped him with it mrs hayes yes believed hayes innocent tribuna I 1 provo sept 8 lira ira caroline hayes rite ife of the convicted stepfather of albert b crt itayem allae ernstrom has ha always refused to believe her ter husband guilty of the adful crime of murdering her offspring she has apt tit her money in deafen defense s e of 0 her ter husband hux band and devotedly worked orl ed on the ease cn s peeking to free him site she lai has had a theory of her own in the dime crime which she ha has often t to the utah anty county officers she says that a man giving the nam name e of Steph stephens rits called at tile hie point ranch when she was there in the early part of Fc binary put up lip ills hla hot hoi PP at the stable and asked for foi the boya boy they were then away antly and this matt man lert left a plat ot of the premises tor for them lie he was icis armed with a revolver and a bolt belt full fall of Calt cartridges ridgeS X mrs weeks says saks he mas as IL a dangerous look lang ing man mail and she felt uneasy in his presence prea enc there wn war c a stephens stephen or stevens in chniel at t one time of the stock that ranged west of utah itil lake e lie ire was for a time suspected but i when ben ho he learned of the rumor he sent word ord from ills his residence on tile the that he was ready to twit answer ilver whenever ivan wanted tea for lie he N was as far al ablay ay from peli pel lean ican point when the tragedies were su supposed to have been committed there mrs hayes now feels sure that tile the man w x ito ho called at the ranch under the name I 1 of stephens wag N as none other aban ban weeks alias case connected with nith the tragedy by sheriff storrs lie ile answers quite fully her description of tile the mysterious man who called at the ranch when she was chere wid and left a plat she is corroborated furthermore by the discovery of a plat at place at the mouth mouth ot of spat spanish 1 ish fork canon drw to the one letl left lit at pelican point weeks wag waa a a surveyor who was it engaged him to survey point OTHER STRONG EVIDENCE against week allas alias case has come to light neighbors at mapleton declare that lie fit left there on horseback about february ath and resumed with a team loaded leading his saddle allol horse sa on february febi uary esth thomas williams of mapston helped him pull to the weeks ranch ot description of the team answers an sers the description of the missing team from pelican point tile horses hive never since been seen but the wagon bed of the long lost ve hicie lias has been discovered it Is now tit at mapleton weeks stopped at the stark ranch west nest of the lake while awny on that trip the three boys were killed at pelican point on february rebr uary edth so it Is sui BUI cinto ed at any rate it way was during the inter internal tal of weekes absence from his ranch at I aplet n on february young barnes boy from a neighboring ranch played cards all day ailta w ith the three boys at pelican point one of the three boys murdered said so young barnes testified if old hayes should come here now we could double teams on ial him in on february alith three t testified to seeing harry hayes puttering about tile the premise and on february ciry three lehl nit fitness ness saw hayes 11 eyes anti and another man lin unknown known so they testified with ilith a wagon on the tee ice ot of utah in lake ke that same evening some man asked as kd k d of neighboring ranchmen ranchman ranch men the road leading across utah lake WHAT ABOUT HAYES there 1 is much discus discussion don lit in provo the he place placa or of the clayes trial lw a to the I 1 probable ro bable freeing ot of hayes tile the consensus on of opinion see seems rits to be t that hat weeks week t lg is only an accomplice yet storrs left home co convinced minced that harry hayes it innocent 0 of the crime of which lie he Is convicted |