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Show f . P. MATTHEWS HERE 10 INQUIRE ABQUi SON Colorado Springs Man B'elieves His Boy Met With Foul Play. E. P. Matthews is here from Colorado Colo-rado Springs investigating tho death ol! his son, Donald P. Matthews, who was killed in tho D. & R. G. railway yards on the night of March 20. presumably while trying to board t fastly-moving I rain No! -1 as it was pulling out for the East. His body was strewn along the tracks from the depot to Tenth South street, being mangled beyond recognition. Mr. Matthews believes that his sou was not killed while frying to board the tram, but was the victim of foul play. He basos this opinion upon the fact that out of about $75 the young man is confidently, believed to have had. only seventy-five, cents was found in his pockets after his tragic end. Young Matthews was temperate in his habits, neither drinking nor using tobacco, to-bacco, and the elder Matthews can not understand how he got rid of the largo sum of money. Ho thinks that his eon was 'assaulted and robbed and then drugged or slugged and thrown upon the railway tracks. In conjunction with tho local police, Mr. Matthews has been working on the case for throe daysj&and said Saturday night that he has' nr trace of where his son was staving while here. In addition, addi-tion, he is trying to trnce his son's movements here, believing, that this will give him a possible clow to his death. This morning he will continue the investigation with the aid of a local lo-cal detective. Young Matthews was only 10 years old. lie quit the high school at Colorado Colo-rado Springs in his third yenr there and soon went to work for the Santa Fo railway as callboy. Ho was efficient, and in thc'fTftcen months that ho was connected with the railway, was promoted pro-moted three times. His resignation. February 211 of this year, was voluntary and he lefi March 10 for Grand Junction Junc-tion to obtain employment with sugar companies there. Failing to obtain work at once, he came on to Salt Lake and wrote his parents from here that he yas desirous of going on to California. Five days afterwards he was killed. Young Matthews was a member of the Y. M. C. A. and was twice made alternate alter-nate candidate for the naval academy at Annapolis, the first time by Con- , gressman l' E. Brooks, and the second bv f'ongrcssman Hogg. He belonged to the Brotherhood ol Railway clerks. The father carries letters from the concerns with which his son wns ein-ploved ein-ploved that speak highly of him Although Mr. Matthews arrived here four days ago and immediately reported the purpose of his mission to the police po-lice department, the information of his visit was suppressed from the public until Saturday. No reason was given for the withholding of the story from the press. |