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Show I SHEETS MURDER Officers Have Little Information lo Guide Tliom in the I Case. I SEVERAL ( LI ES RUN DOWN PROVE ABORTIVE I (Mirers Are Now Working on a Cine That May Produce I Results. In splto of the work dnno by the police. department, the Sheriff's deputies and the County Attorney, In an effort to unracl the mystery surrounding the runnier of Nephl M. Sheets last Thursday night, tliere are practically no new dcvelop-ments. dcvelop-ments. True It Is that a number have como forward with Information whleh. had It been given tho night of the shoot-'' shoot-'' ing or the next morning, might have i i a en Of value, but tangible evidence i i not to be had Saw Man in Vicinity. Perhaps the most Important informa-tlon informa-tlon which came out dutlng the Inquest Tuesday was that furnished by County !i Attornej Chrfsteneen, who located a , woman Monday who hnd seen a suspl- t clous-looking character n-nr the scene "f , the Shooting a few minutes l.cfore It Is supposed t.. hsvt occurred Th woman , In question I Mi Dlantha Morris "i 80 h Second East street. According to her Ntfirv told t" the 1 " int'. Attorney, Mrs Morris was standing near HTapgood's i Store when a fellow wearing a slouch , felt hat and an overcoat that came be- r low ills knees walked by and stood for ,. an In ! in .a tli. . .rner of Fifth South i and Second F.ant streets A moment .., la'' r he -m r 1 1 r t f-f i east, but, after going a ; short distance, fnitif rin.-k inward where , Mrs. Morrla was standing Not liking I ids looks. Mnt Morris boarded a Car and . went away, thinking little Of the Incident f until It dawneM upon h'r that tin place r and lime compared closely with those of i the rhootln nffra Another Circumstance. Another circumstance that has been tak-m Into consideration by the Coroner s , Jury Blnc that body was presented with !. map "f tli' vicinity is tin' location of i, an alley within a few feet , where the I i phootlnp oerurred. If the murderer ran i down this alley after he had killed Mr. i Sheets and rifled hie pockets he would I not have been seen by those who on 9at- i urdny testified to Standing n tho cor ners oast and Weal th- scene of the I, shof.tliifr As will be remembered, two witnesses testified thai they were standing stand-ing on th- corner when they heard th. i- phot fired, and although th- were close to thj spot did i,"t mo ruiy in' run away. The alley Would naturally In. th. course a hold-up would pursue after such I a deed, and. providing he went that way, I there would be no possible chance of i pass, i s-h s. i Ins him Roy Sheets on Stand. ) Roy Sheets, tin- son of the murdered j man, was asked by the County Attorney i to tHi of hip whereabouts on tho night of the shooting After describing his actions ac-tions thr'.uch'.ut th dav up to 8:15 in the evening, he sHld that he spent the time Intervening up to li o'clock at the home of Miss Gertrudi' Rend. CO North Fifth West str.it Mi's Raid's brother t brought him the llrst news that he had 1 had "i hi-- father's death. To ft repor''-r he said that the rumor started of his arrest wns without foundation and that he was terribly affected when he first heard of It Tuesday morning. Heard Shot Fired I' Miss May Bennett of 256 Bast Fifth South was another witness who claimed to have heard the shot Mitts Bennett also saw a man running up the street when she went to the door, but as he was at a distance she was unable to de-scribe de-scribe him. John B. McKee's Testimony. 1 John MeKeo. one of the first m-n to I' reach Mr. Sheets after the shooting, sim- pl) told of the pcaltlon in whl- h the body I lay when he arrived, and of the fact that he notified tin- broth, r-ln-law of the mur-dered mur-dered man j ) h . McAllister He ,: heard tin- shot, but did not see any one running away. In his opinion Mr Sheets had been dead several minutes be-u be-u fore he reached him. Explains Dog Story. r Vance McHnn. the driver of a milk wagon, told of an accident which hap- pened to his dog and of the trail of blood made near the vicinity of the shoot-Intr shoot-Intr as a rtsuli. It w a; so plain to th.- authorities. after hearing this evidence, that the theory of the murderer going ' fast Into Wellington court was a false one, that no further action will be taken In tho waj of having the blood found ireated to a microscopic examination by i the City hernial when the trail .was I i first Btruch considerable significance ns I attached to It. but at thn prf-snt time I . other .l i.r will I,... to be furnished be- I fore am luadwa may be expecterl. Tells of Finding Body. I i John Foote, without doubt the first man I i to reach Mr Sheets aftei he was mur- H dercd, told again ol the position of the body and of hlR triii to the cltv and count h. ill. ling that In might notlfj ih H police department. Mrs. J. P Cornel- ller of 258 East Fifth South str. t cot;ld I i 1hrow no ll'lit on tic LifT.ilr. altho i h si; hewrd th shot distinctly According to her tostlmonv It was a inullbd sound, as I i If fired Into an object at clos range. The H lnrpiet will in- continued tomorrow. Suspect Released. Arthur rUrti. the Salt Lake man who was arrested on suspicion lmni"(llni'lv after the shooting, told the Coroner a Jury that he ;ts- at Tenth North and Tenth West at the time of the phootlng and succeeded so well In convincing the i authorities that he wus Innocent of anv complicity In the affair that he waa released re-leased Curtis has been under aurvetl- lance for a long time New Clue Found. If the Information now In the hands of r Salt Lak policeman deeot)S Into tan- i glble evidence, a new clue will be af-BK9 af-BK9 , fordfd that ma bring results It Is un- j derstood that a man who formerly " .' worked for Mr. Sheeta had a long talk I I with one of the suspects In the ease early Thunsday mortdtiif, the day of the mur- .,. J; der, and that during the conversation he was told that he (the suspect) had Just H I i f quarreled with the man who later was ;). 4. murdered In fact, the fellow said that I j tho ((Uiirrel was of a nature bordering j ' on violence and that trouble mlpht ecu. ' up between them at any time. The offl- - cer will Investigate the story thoroughly, , I J and In case the rumor is verified b' Mr ; , ' 4 SheelB's former employee It In likely a i i warrant will be Issu d at once for the I SUSpecl - arrest. |
