Show POLICE BELIEVE JOHN POST WAS WASI AS I MURDER VICTIM I f I New Developments DeI Detectives De De- Detectives Say Lead to toB I B Belief lief- lief Salt Lake Contractor Contractor Con Con- Death tractor Met Foul I I Mystery continues to surround the tle death o of John Post 52 Salt Lake contractor who was found In his I garage 2214 McClelland street on Au August his head crushed ac cord cording ng to Chi Chief of Detectives Detectives' Riley M. M B Beckstead Monday New lead leaa to the theory theory theory the the- I ory that the man mai came to o his death by foul play especially the report o of State Chemist Herman Harms who says lays that the he hair found on the floor of the garage was human hair and might be that o of Posts Post's Tie The finding which was made after a weeks week's analysis points strongly to the fact that Post was was murdered instead o of having died accidentally or having committed suicide according according according ac ac- cording to detectives HAD NO EN ENEMIES MIES Defectives B. B H. H Seager and R B. B L. L Eddington are continuing the investigation In an ap effort to secure further further fur cur I ther evidence that may may bolster the murder theory According to relatives relatives relatives rela rela- tives however vever Post had no enemies an and robbery Is said not to have been the motive for such an act Officers are basing their con contention conten contention ten ten- tion that h he may may have come cone to his death by foul play on th the evidence that the tha door of or the garage was locked locked from from the outside and that the l hair found was cut from his head by a blow from some heavy weapon According to officers his hat was dented by y some instrument other than the truck Post was found dead on on n August C G four days after arter he is alleged to have been crushed accidentally be beI between between be- be tween the body and nd framework or ora of pf ofa a hydraulic truck The coroners coroner's I jury found that he came to hl hi his death accidentally I THEORY REFUTED I 1 The t theory 1 oryl that P Post st was working on the mechanism of or the machine I I w when en the he body fell on him Is refuted to some extent by the fact that his I II I face was toward the seat of ot the machine machine ma ma- ma I chine with the back of ot the head toward the mechanism on which he heIs heis Is supposed to have ben working when he was found lound DIscovery y of ot the hair on the floor of ot the garage is an indication Indication- according ac- ac cording to to- detectives that Post might have hae been murdered by being struck with a heavy instrument end and nd I Ithen then his ills head placed under tb the I truck to hide th the crime and m make ke keIt it It appe appear r that h he wa was wa accidentally I. I killed when the body of ot the truck fell tell upon him as he worked under I the machine I |