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Show Man Slain in Store ty Bandits GARFIELD MI; SUSPECTS HELD Desperadoes Strike William 'i A. Sandercock Over Head I With a Heavy Hammei While Victim Sleeps, Then lilj Fire Bullets Into Body, Af ter Desperate Struggle. 11 TWO MEN TAKEN INTO 1 1 CUSTODY AT LYNNDYL Sheriff's Officers Will Bring & Prisoners to Salt Lake This Bj Morning; Robbers Get Six- H ty Cents as Reward for Si Most Atrocious Murder? ! Community Aroused. Wm Facts in Murder of llfS W. A. Sandercock w William A. Sandercock mur- IK dered in his store at Garfield, filj-. Two suspects under arrest at IK Lynndyl. Sheriff Sharp goes B to Lynndyl and takes men in- K to custody. H Thirty suspects arrested at Hj Garfield, but are afterwards re- leased. lUf Bingham officers in search K of two suBpects, Wj Search in progress through- w; out state for slayers. H WILLIAM A. SANDER- COCK, prominent busi- fll ncss man of Garfield, man- a Dger of the Sampson Meat & Gro- i ll eery company of that place, was 1 1 1 shot and killed, in the company's j f store Tuesday night or AVedncs- ! ID day morning, by two men whose B purpose was to rob the store. Mr. Sandercock was engaged H lo be married. The wedding had Ejn been arranged for December, the hM; bride-to-be being Miss Mary jtjii O'Brien, of Burlington, Iowa. jQji ' Peter Mackoy aud William Lifchgow, two "'laborers -who live at Garfield, were arrested at Lynndyl, 150 miles south HH of Salt Lake, on the Salt Lake Route, MH yesterday morning by N. M. Miller, HH special agent of the San Podro, Los H Ancelos & S.'.lt. Lako Railroad com- SI pany, suspected o bcinp: tho murderers of Sandercock. HE Sheriff Joseph C. Sbarp of SaJt Lake ilB county, accompanied by Deputy tUB Sheriff John Corless, left for Lynndyl HH at t3;30 o'clock last evening, and is jgH expected to return to this city -with Iff Hj tho two suspects at 6:S0 o'clock tliis IB morning jjn It Is said that Mackey and L.ith?r-w ju left their homes at Garfield early Wed- ;!9 nesday mornlns, advising: no one of their , jVj intended departure.- It Is also said that L VI the two men were seen lolterlns about flu tho streets at an early hour Wednesday morning rrsccdlnfr tholr departure. HI A numher of other suspects were ar- 9 H restod at Garfield ycEterday by- Sheriff I M Sharp, but as these could plve fjood j H account of themselvea they were given mwB their liberty. RW Suspects Deny Guilt. II Both men arrested at Lynndyl admit M their identity, but deny any knowledge IU of the crime. uSV Tho folio wine brief telegram wac re- rH (Continued on Pago Two.) ffll MERCHANT BRUTALLY SLAIN AT GARFIELD (Ooutlnucd from Pago One.) eclved early this morning from SherllT Sharp at Lynndyl: "Will bring suspects to Salt Lake. Circumstances Cir-cumstances suspicious. Nothing definite yet." Late last night it was reported from Bingham that two men, apparently nearly near-ly exhausted, entered a saloon at that place and asked the bartender for a. drink, saving they had no money and adding that they had walked a long distance dis-tance and were unable to proceed lurthor unless they could secure a. stimulant Tho bartender at first refused to givn them the drinks, but later, believing them to bo in sore need of lluuor, relented relent-ed and acceded to their appeals In the meantime tho bartender noticed thut the hand of one of the men had been bleeding from a wound. After obtaining the drinks the two men departed from the saloon. Later ofllcers were notified of tho occurrence, and, believing that the men might be the murderers of Sander-cock, Sander-cock, a thorough search of the town was made, with the purpose in view of detaining de-taining and fjuestlonlng the suspects. At an early hour this morning, however, the men had not been located. The killing of Sandercock was a most brutal affair. It was apparent from the position of the dead body of Sandercock that, he hail put up a desperate light before be-fore he was overcome and killed by IiIh assailants. Sandercock had been struck over the head a number of times with a. heavy Implement probably a railroad track liammer. One bullet had passed through his left arm, penetrated the body, and was found lodged in the skin on the right side, under the armpit. Another bullci had struck him in tho right cheek and emerged at a point Just below the left car. Sixty Cents Slayers' Reward. As a reward for their deed the robbers rob-bers obtained UO cents from the cash register. reg-ister. The remaining money in tho store had been securely hidden by .Sandercock and was nol found by the robbers. Tho killing of Sandercock was discovered discov-ered at CMS o'clock Wednesday morning by Theodoie Candland. a cutter in the meat department of' the store. He went to open the store for the day and was surprised that Sandercock had not already al-ready opened the front door, as was the custom. Upon entering the grocery department with the intention of awakening Sandercock, Sander-cock, who slept there and whom Candland Cand-land believed had overslept, Candland was confronted by a grewsome sight. On the floor, near the counter and at the foot of an unoccupied bed. lay Sandercock's body. The head and tho shoulders were In a mass of blood and bullet holes in the face and body showed In what manner death had Overtaken the manager of the store. Evidence of Struggle, In, the immediate vicinity of th bed were evidences of a. struggle. Articles were overturned and near the body of the dead man was found his revolver, fully loaded with cartridges, which had nol been died. From the position of the body and the disturbed condition of the room, it was evident that Sandercock had been attacked at-tacked while yet in bed. It Is probable that he was struck on the head wlt'n some heavy implement in the hands of one of the robbers and that he had Jumped from tho bed and engaged the robbers in a scui'lle. It appears that he-was he-was then shot through the body and i finally shot through the head. An examination, of the exterior of the store showed that the robbers had climbed .upon a pile of packing cases at the rear of . the store building -and broken in the transom over the rear door. They then saw that the door was not fastened with bars. They unlocked the door with a skcloton key and entered the meat "department "de-partment of the store. Sandercock slept on a cot In the grocery gro-cery department. It Is believed that the robbers crept up lo tho cot on which Sandercock was sleeping and struck him over tho. head, but I hat the blow did not crush his skull. Then the manager of the store Jumped from ills col, it Is thought, and engaged the robbers. Evidence of six revolver shots was found. Of tho four bullets which did" not take effect In the body of Sandercock, one was found Indued in tho celling of the sitorc. anothor hit a roll of paper on tlu countor, another bullet lodged In a box of merchandise and another was found imbedded in the tloor. After the discovery of the body of his slain cmplovor. Candland notified Deputy Sheriff Charles E. Wood, former assist1 ant chief of tho Snlt Lake fire department, depart-ment, and Dr. D. L, Barnard. Upon his arrlvnl the physician pronounced Sandercock Sander-cock to be dead. Deputy Sheriff Wood tlicn notified Joseph C. Sharp of Sail Lake county of the murder. Buspect Arrested; Released. Sheriff Sharp, accompanied by Deputy Sheriffs Jack Gorlcss and Axrl .Steele, made a quirk run to the smelter town in tlie sheriff's automobile. Aa many aa thirty suspicious characters were taken Into custody, but were later in the day arraigned before David Keid, justice of the peace at Pleasant Green, on diargea of vagrancy and released on suspended sentences, as no evidence was presented which showed that any one of the number num-ber had anything to do with th murder of Sandercock. Sheriff Sharp Jearufd that Mar-key and Llthgow had disappeared from Garfield early Wednesday morning under mysterious circumstances. Descriptions De-scriptions of these two men were telegraphed tele-graphed broadcast about the state and It was as a result of one of these descriptions descrip-tions that the two men were arrested at Lynndyl. Intended to Marry Soon. Tuesday evening Arthur Baron, manager man-ager of the general mberchnndlsc store of B. Baron & Co., situated a short distance from the Sampson store, dropped in at the Sampson Meat & Grocery company's store and had a long chat with Sandercock. Sander-cock. Baron said Inst nlglil that Sandercock seemed to be In low spirits and expressed his intention of giving up tlie Garfield , business in the near future and leaving tlie town. "Sandercock had never been married." said Baron, "but he Intimated to me Tuesday night that he expected to be married in December to Miss Mary O'Brien of Burlington. Ia , whom he had mot in Salt Lake City." Sandercock was 12 years of age. lie was born in Englnnd and came to this country more than twenty years ago. lie had followed farming and mining In Utah and before coming to this state had lived at Anaconda Mont. Prior to going lo Garfield he had been engaged In farming in Rush valley. The body of Mr. Sandercock was brought from Garfield and arrived in Salt Lake at J.IO o'clock yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Jt was removed lo the under-lalkng under-lalkng establishment of Kber Y. Hall, where it will be held hull) the relatives of the dead man are heard from. It is believed that Sandercock has no relatives rela-tives outside of England. David Reid. justice of the peac at Pleasant Green, in whose Jurisdiction is Garfield, said last night that no Inquest would be held in I ho case of I hp Sandercock Sander-cock murder, as there exists no question as to the manner In which the store manager came to his death. Justice Reid said thai ho did not know, nor had he ever heard of, either of the suspects who were arrested at Lynndyl vstordny morning. |
