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Show Iscanr s fflusf IS STILL II LARGE Manhunt in Big Cotton-; Cotton-; wood Canyon Conducted by Sheriff Corless. Efforts of Sheriff John 9. Corless and deputies to "apprehend the man who stabbed to death Henry Saxton in Knud-sen's Knud-sen's grove. Big Cottonwood, Sunday night had proved fruitless up to a late hour last night. Sheriff Corless and several deputies were out all night, scouring the country. They found that Hyrum Bateman, suspected sus-pected of having done the stabbing in a fit of jealous rage, had returned home With his automobile shortly after the fatal attack upon Saxton, but had not been seen since. Saxton bled to death at the home of his sweetheart, Lydia Sehelker, near the grove where the stabbing occurred. Examination Ex-amination of the body after death re-1 re-1 vea'ed the fact that he was not only cut ! badly upon both arms, but that he was I stabbed several times in the body, the wounds giving evidence that the knife used had been twisted after being thrust home, pieces of flesh actually being cut out. The girl explained to the officers that the man who committed the murder had first tried to run Saxton down with an automobile and, driving past, later returned re-turned to attack him in the grove with i a knife. She expressed to the officers her belief as to the identity of the assailant, assail-ant, who, she said, had threatened to shoot anyone who paid her any attention. atten-tion. She said that she was paralyzed with fear when the attack occurred, so much so that she was unable to call for help. Sax ton walked with her from the grove to her home near by after he was stabbed. The investigating oit'icers found the vicinity of the attack, as well as the place where Lhe man died at the premises of the young woman's home, soaked with blood. Deputy sheriffs continued the search of the vicinity throughout yesterday and last night without finding a trace of the assailant as-sailant and withou t locating Bateman. |