Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-18 | Page 2 | Detectives Study Soothsayer's Cards Seeking Clues in Predicted Slaying

I Detectives Study Soothsayers Soothsayer's Cards Card Seeking Clues in Predicted Slaying I n I y- y By lit United Pee CHICAGO July 18 Last 18 Last Thursday a soothsayer drew three cards from her deck The first bore a grinning skeleton scythe In h hand The second seconda a woman mourning before a gravestone grave grave- gravestone stone the third an advocate studying thc the law Today detectives studied the cards and their prophecy of death as they hunted a clue to the thc slayer of ot George Carl 44 44 shot to death 72 hours after his wife heard his fate foretold Another sinister aspect of the case was seen by police In information they received that Carl had taken out at the behest of his brother in law a insurance policy with double liability In event of ot violent death Carls Carl's year old son Dorn revealed to police poUce the thc prophecy of his f fathers father's death Mother told me a fortune teller said Daddy would be killed by bandits ban ban- the child said Mrs Carl confirmed the statement and named the as Mrs Susie Ballow Mrs Ballow informed officers she had made the prophecy The Thc first card she said indicated death the thc second showed the thc husband would be bethe bethe bethe the victim and the third Indicated the widow might come under suspicion su and require services of or a lawyer