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Show CLEW FDUHI I! 1 LAUSS MURDERi ! Piece of Rope Discovered j Similar to That Used ; for Gagging Victim. What may prove to be a. clow to the iden:ity of the murderers of Marko I-auss, whose body was found in the mouth of Parley's canyon, near the state prison, has been uncovered by Sheriff John S. Corless. Theo lore Rosso tte. an Austrian chauffeur, chauf-feur, is bein;? bold in the county jail because be-cause of the rnviinsr in his automobile of a piece of rope similar to that from which was fashioned the that was used upon the mout.i of the murdered man. liosseite tolls a story accounting for his presence elsewhere than at the scene o: the murder for every hour of Sunday and Sunday night. His inability to remember re-member where he was on Saturday or any day immediately previous to Sunday makes Sheriff Coriess suspicious thai the alibi may havA been concocied in anticipation antici-pation of investigation. That an automobile cured in the carrying- of Lauss to the place where the body was found, either be: ore or after the man was killed, has been made lo appear likely because of the finding of tracks of a car at the place, the car evidently evi-dently ha vine been stopped and tacked up to turn around. Persons who saw two or three men st rutr.trline at the pohit where the body was found reported t .ley did not see an automobile, and it is thought that tin chuufiur now bcintr held was but hired :o take the murderers and their victim to the place of the killing-, if, indeed, he had any connection with it at fill. |