Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-01-18 | Page 1 | Accused Slayer of S. L. Grocer is under Arrest

Accused Ac used Slayer Of S. S SL L. L Grocer Is Under Arrest Behind Bars j 2 S GRANT TICE Faces Murder Charge I II I Capture Follows Hunt Begun A After fter Purported Confession Confession Confes Confes- sion of Pal EXTRADITION IS PLANNED ED Detective Wire Prepares to toGo toGo toGo Go to Long Beach Grant Tice alias Grant Hamilton 19 accused slayer of Edmund G. G nines Hines aged ared Salt Lake grocer wu was arrested ar arrested ar- ar rested Monday in Long Beach CaL and is being held for Salt Lake police pollee according to an Associated Press dis i patch Tice was traced from Salt Lake to St. St Louis Springfield Mo Detroit and thence to Long Beach where hk his mother lives according to the dis dis- dis- dis patch His arrest followed an intensive in investigation investigation launched by City Detec tives lives Lester F. F Wire and J. J Ross HunI Hunsaker Hunsaker Hun- Hun saker after the arrest in December ol ci I Conrad Hansen 20 of Salt Lake who allegedly confessed participation inthe inthe in inthe the attempted holdup of Mr Hints Hints' store at Eighth East street on October Oc October Oc- Oc tober 2 and named Tice as the slayer BOTH FACE CHARGES Both Tice and Hansen face first degree murder charges drawn up after Hansens Hansen's purported con confession less ion Hansen is being held here pending trial A third youth unnamed by police pollee is supposed to have given information information tion leading to Hansens Hansen's arrest when he told officers he had lent his gun to the youths and later had thrown it into the Jordan river when he learned it had been used in the slaying Detective Wire expected to leave by automobile late Monday afternoon for Long Beach to return Tice Mr Hines was slain when two bandits bandits ban banS entered his store in an attempted holdup He was alone and resisted the pair who shot him in the back bach bachas backas as he apparently was trying to leave the place and summon STAGGERS TO HOME ROME The grocer staggered to his home next door and collapsed on the front porch dying within a few minutes The bandits were seen to flee west through a va vacant ant lot Several persons persons per per- sons saw them in flight but were unable to give police accurate Hansen in his purported confession confes confesS sion Slon is said to have revealed that Mr Hines struck him over the head with witha a pop bottle and that Tice then fired the fatal shot