Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-26 | Page 1 | Gruesome Evidence

GRUESOME EVIDENCE. Bloodstained Garments May Convict DameB's Murderers. BELLI NGHAM Wash . May 23 What the officers consider u final link In tho chain of evidence against Davis and Don-to Don-to 11 v held as suspects for the murder eif Frederick L. Dames. April 12. was fcuhd I his morning by Sheriff Williams, when he discovered, ten feet underground, at th'" bottom of an abandoned coal shaft near the cabin whore tho prisoners lived, clothing covered with blood. These garments are believed to havo been worn when tho crime wa committed com-mitted Thiy appear to fit tho prisoners. Among tho articles is a towel, -j.-hlch Is thought to have belonged to Dames It Is blood-stained and bears a dim laundry mark The Sheriff was led to crawl to tho bottom bot-tom of the old shaft becauso of reoorts tl at Davis and Donnelly had boen seen frequently hovering around there.