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Show ADDS TO EVIDENCE AGAINST FARM HAND DENVER, Colo., Dec. 25,Alex Miller, mute farm hand held in Denver county jail pending an investigation into the murder of Adam Shank, his wife, Eliza- : beth Shank, and their four children near, Gilcrest, Weld county, Saturday night. ; waa identified today according to Cnief Of Police Hamilton Armstrong, by Ifrank Stephens, an auto truck drfver, as a man he picked up four miles from the Shank farm Sunday morning about 7:30 o'clock, and gave a ride to Platteville. James Scott, Union Pacific station agent at Platteville, has identified Miller as a man to whom he sold a ticket to Denver Sunday morning. A neighbor of the Shank family was found today who said he heard shots in the direction of the Shank home about 6:30 Sunday morning. Miller spoilt a good portion of Christmas Christ-mas day in prayer In his cell, according to jail officials. |