Show t SALT SAL T LAKE BOY Ao SLA SLAIN TI ii I Murder Victim J 1 EARL SMITH 1 CHilD THROWN I IN Cf CESSPOOL SPOOl AFTER L EATH MAN HELD Ii I Autopsy Shows No Water in in Lungs of EarL Smith NEIGHBOR ARRESTED Boy Was I Is Belief I Earl Smith SmithS 5 was murdered The body of the ch child ld son Ion of Mrs Emma Smith West Broadway was thrown into a t the rear of his home after life lift was extinct S This conclusion was reached by y Chief o of Detectives Riley M. M I Beckstead Beckstead Beckstead Beck- Beck stead Thursday morning after Dr Stephen Besley and Dr Frank Root had performed an autopsy upon the body The autopsy f failed Ito to reveal presence presence presence pres pres- ence of water water- in th the childs child's lungs and disproved the original belief that the youngster had fallen Into the cesspool and had drowned The boy was first reported mIssIng missing miss mIss- ing from his home on Thanksgiving day and the body was recovered from the pool by police officers on Wednesday noon C Careful examination was made by the doctors for marks of violence on the body but none was found found- Neither wa was his hia neck br broken ken as was suspected As a result p poison poisoning ing or asphyxiation Is Js suspected by Chief of Detectives Beckstead and the boys' boys stomach tom ch will be sent immedIately im immediately mi- mi mediately to State Chemist Herman Harms for analysis for poison Dr Besley stated that the condition condition condition con con- of the body Indicated as asphyxiation as more than poison death Mr l Harms' Harms report will be ready sometime Friday AGED M MAN N HELD HELb No motive for the killing of or th thoe child Is lis apparent but T J. 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Powell an aged neighbor Is being held in inthe intoe inthe the toe city jail on the accusation of the boys boy's grandmother that he had d done away with Earl Eal Powell saw the boy dally daily police learned and his anger had often orten been aroused by the boys boy's constant He lie denied having seen the child since Continued on page 6 CHILD THROWN IN CESSPOOL AFTER DE DEATH TH MAN HELD Continued from Irons page 1 he was reported missing on Thurs Thurs- day Another striking aspect of the case was revealed Thursday morning mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing when Mr and Mrs Roy neighbors told the police that they had seen Earl with a chum standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing in front of a local theatre Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day noon Their attention was at attracted attracted attracted at- at to him they said because of his unusually unkempt appearance Mrs Smith said that she never saw the boy from Thanksgiving morning until his body was Ire recovered covered on Wednesday Earl according to neighbors neighbor was of an unusually mischievous nature for a boy of his age G and was in the habit of running away from home A citywide search search's for the child was instituted last Thursday night when Mrs Smith reported his ab absence absence absence ab- ab sence to the police Neighbors re recalled recalled recalled re- re called seeing him hins walking away from his home with his pet cat In his arms and later hater playing near the cesspool with the tho cat and Isis his doll buggy The TIle buggy Was nas found Wednesday n near ar the pool CONTRADICTS STORIES Contradicting the statements of the neighbors to the police poUce Mrs Smith Smiths said that Earl had never been away from home for more than three or four hours He was a bright good little boy Mrs Smith declared when told that the child was dead when his body was thrown in the pool Everybody Everybody Every body liked him Why would anyone want to kill a baby Mrs 1 SD Smiths Smith th also stated that Earl knew his hia way about and often went uptown and returned by himself She could offer no explanation as asto asto asto to why If it he lie was seen by the Zu- Zu on Sunday he had not re returned returned returned re- re turned home of ot hi his own volition him she She had never never punished said but quite tho opposite had spoiled him hm by giving him money to buy ice cream and candy when she needed it for the necessities ne of life lie Mrs Mallie MalUa Hayter grandmother of the boy who lived with Mrs Smith said she based her accusation accusation accusation tion of Powell on the fact that he had manifested no Interest or concern concern concern con con- cern when told that Earl was missing missing missing miss miss- ing and on one occasion some months past had told fold her he understood understood understood under under- stood the family had mono money on y FAMILY DESTITUTE J The family are In destitute circumstances living in two little ro rooms roms ms In the house where Mrs Hayter rents furnished rooms This is their sole means of oC support rt Mrs Irs Smith said No I have havo not notified the boys boy's father of his death she stated Why should I He has never seen the boy I s separated from him back in about three months before Earl was born Disturbing her in her grIef over the tho loss of f her O only ly child is the worry of where she will find means to bury bury him Mrs Mr Smith said The Tile In which Earls Earl's body was found Is the drain from a ga garage garage garage ga- ga rage in irs the rear of th Smith home Water from irons washing cars thick with grease and ind siim slime drains Into It Until the boys boy's body was found there were many neighbors who said they did not even know of ot its existence The opening is about two feet square but the pool Itse itself widens into an area about five feet across and Is about ten or fifteen feet deep The opening was covered covered cov- cov ered on Wednesday by an old plank put but those neighbors who knew of Its I existence stated they had never before before before be be- fore seen It covered |