Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-12-31 | Page 18 | Police Still Believe Gun in River Mud

i j I Police Still 0 Believe Gun Qun I j 0 In River M Mud d 0 0 Curious Collection of Articles Articles Ar Ar- tides Found by Use of Queer Device S 0 I. The mud of the Jordan river Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day police still till believe holds the pis pistol ol which fired the shot that killed Edmund G G. Hines Salt Lake grocer despite hours of ot painstaking effort with a unique powerful electromagnet electro magnet to recover the weapon Grant Tice 19 sought in connection with the attempted holdup and murder murder murder mur mur- der of the aged grocer on October 2 still evaded capture although hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot circulars containing his description description description de de- de- de and photograph have been bro broadcast in an an effort to to apprehend him Tice linked to the slaying In In the reputed oral confession of Conrad D D. Hansen 20 tailors tailor's apprentice charged with first degree murder in connection with the killing asserted asserted- ly borrowed the gun Sun a 32 automatic from a a. a third youth to whom he al al returned it after the crime The owner realizing that the pistol had been used in a slaying police were informed threw it into the Jor- Jor Continued on Pan Pace Twelve I POLICE HUNTING MURDER PISTOL Continued from Peso Page Nine dan river at the spot where police conducted an unsuccessful search all al Wednesday afternoon CONTINUE SEARCH Further Futher efforts will wi be made Enday Friday Fri En- Fr da day according to Charles Cares Reading RedIng superintendent of ot the police poUce polee and fire fre alarm system and designer of ot the magnet who said the apparatus would maget be be moved to ano another her section of the river bank If the gun gu is in the river Mr Reading I predicted the magnet will wi recover it i even though it is buried deep in i the mud An automobile axle weighing 5 50 pounds scores of horseshoes cans and hundreds of ot other discarded metal objects object were located and ad brought to the surface Every foot of the river bottom for fora a space of 25 yards was carefully combed with the magnet maget and if i the pistol pitol was there vc we certainly would woud have recovered it it Apparently it is imbedded in i the mud in another spot spot Designed and constructed by Mr Reading in cooperation with City Detectives De De- W. W E. E Eggleston and M M. D. D McGinness McGiness the magnet maget was observed with wih interest by hundreds hundred Wednes Wednes- day CAN LIFT LIT POUNDS Weighing pounds nine feet long 12 inches wide and 16 inches thick the magnet in i the shape shape of a abar abar bar actually combines combies eight magnets maget Mr Reading explained and ad has a altig lifting power in excess of pounds poud It I is mounted on a movable derrick and is suspended from a boom which overhangs the river A portable generator generator generator gen gen- furnishing 80 volts vols is the source of power A series of pulleys pule's and ad cables enables the operator to lower the steel bar to lo the river bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn at any point desired When lifted it carries carres with wih it i all al steel objects object it i touches Suspended over the dry bank the power is i shut shutoff shutoff shutoff off and the metal objects object drop to the ground to be examined by detectives When When found Police Chief Joseph E. E Burbidge explained the pistol will wi be besent besent besent sent to the state bureau of tion ton at the capitol to lo be examined by means of the new ballistics machine for characteristics found on the machie shell of the bullet bulet which killed the grocer shel The search for Tice switched t to Denver Thursday when information was received that vas a youth answering his description had been employed in a restaurant in that city Tice formerly formerly for for- merly worked as a cook in a private home her here Hansen was i arraigned lansen I Thursday in city T I c ty court and his pre pre- pre limary hearing was vas set for January Jan Jan- Ja- Ja Jau u uary ry 12