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Show Sheriff J. D. Boyd left Provo at 1 o'clock Wednesday in an airplane air-plane piloted by Verenus Carter, a local aviator, in search of the sus- j pects in the Wilkins murder case ' in Spanish Fork. The plane was headed for Beaver, where Car-, ter expected to land Sheriff Boyd Wednesday. On the way to the southern city they intend to keep a sharp lookout for the California "fliwer" which was seen around Provo last night. It has been decided that with the arrest of the three occupants of that car the mystery now shrouding shroud-ing the murder will be cleared. j Deputy Sheriff Charles Coates is speeding south towards Delta by ' way of Eureka, in an effort to find a trace of the murder gang, while Deputies George Davis and B. F. Roper left Wednesday afternoon for Richfield and Fillmore on the same errand. Wednesday Roy Larsen, chief deputy sheriff of Salt Lake county, assisted by Deputies Brown and Taylor, went closely over the circumstances cir-cumstances of the murder. With I. E. Brockbank, county attorney, they made a thorough investigation of the store in an effort to find finger marks of the murderers. The officers are undecided whether wheth-er the bullet wound came from a Winchester rifle or from a 22-32 automatic. Sheriff Boyd places little faith to the opinion held by some that the murder may have been the act of the much-sought Mexican who killed kill-ed his rival in Bingham a few days ago. Those holding that view say that the Mexican may have run out of ammunition and that he came down into the valley for that purpose. pur-pose. The officers are unable to decide whether Wilkins was shot in the place where he was found or whether wheth-er he had been dragged there by his murderers. Bill Ernhart of McCook, Nebraska, Nebras-ka, who with his wife, camped at the Spanish Fork camping grounds last night, has thus far given what Sheriff Boyd and his officers believe is the best tip on the identity of the murderers. According to Mr. Ernhart, Ern-hart, he saw three men drive from the grounds at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday. Wed-nesday. As it was dark he was unable un-able to see exactly what kind of a car it was, but he says it appeared to be a roadster. Before he heard the car drive from the park, he saw the three men hurriedly run towards to-wards the car and drive away at great haste. It sounded to him, he says, as if they were going south at a rate of 40 to 50 miles an hour as soon as the car came onto the main highway. |