Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-08-25 | Page 5 | Brought from New Mexico

BROUGHT FROM NEW MEXICO ALLEGED SLAYER OF SHERLET TJTLER HERE Billiard Alias Carver the Accuoed Man Insists That He Was in New Mexico at tho Time of the Murder T C Hilliard alias Tod Carver was taken to the county jajl last night to await trial on a charge of murder He was brought from Monb by Sheriff Young of Grand county The crime with which the prisoner charged wad one of the most atrocious In the criminal crimi-nal annals of the Slate the murder of Sheriff Tyler and Deputy Sheriff Jenkins Jen-kins In the mountains eighty miles east ot anompson springs fourteen months ago The two offIcers were shot without with-out warning by three bandits who made good their escape but not before they had been seen by several ranch hands at the Turner ranch near the scene of the murder Billiard answers the description of one of the bandits although none of the ranch hands have been ajjlc to positively Identify him The strongest cvldenqe against him la offered by a resident of Moab who claims to have seen the Suspect near that place a few days previous to the murder The prisoner when seen at the county jail last night denounced his accusers In strong terms lie says that the officers who arrested him near his home In Nea Mexico slipped up on him and poked a couple of Winchesters under his nose as If he were a desperate criminal When he says his reputation is that oC a peaceable man and he does not on any occasion carry a gun He denies ever having been in Utah before and claims that he was on the cattle range near his home at the time of Ihe murder with which he is charged Billiard in appearance is i a typical cowboy He is but 25 years of age and has spent the greater part of his life on the frontier