Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-08-13 | Page 2 | Sixth Murder Suspect Held

SIXTH MURDER SUSPECT HELD NATCHEZ Miss Aug 13 CUP UP- UP New fingerprint evidence and a sixth suspect marked the trail of investigation tion in the baffling Jane Surget Merrill Merrill Mer Mer- rill nil slaying mystery today The prints were found on a new white bridge that spans St St. CatherInes CatherIne's Catherine's Catherines Cather Cather- ines ine's creek near the Merrill estate where the year old spinster scion of or old southern aristocrats aristocrats aris arts was shot to death last week The new suspect was James Richardson Richardson Rich Rich- ardson negro farm fann boy recently employed employed employed em em- on the estate of Dick Dana another another another an an- other principal in the mystery The Then n negro gIO was held In jail for question question- ing lug Dana year old eccentric known in the thc neighborhood as the thc Wild WildMan WildMan WildMan Man and his housekeeper Miss Octavia Oo Oc- tavia Dockrey 60 goat woman arc are formally charge with murder in the case Also held are Odell Ferguson trailed by bloodhounds that were taken to the scene of the thc crime John Geiger former operator of Skunks Nest neighborhood roadhouse and owner of an overcoat found at the Merrill home and Willie Boyd negro tenant on the thc Merrill estate who discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered the recluses recluse's torn bullet body Sheriff C. C P. P Roberts believes one of the slayers may have stopp stopped d at atthe atthe the thc creek to wash bloodstains from his clothes and left fingerprints while there Fingerprints of Dana and Miss Dockrey have already been identified as matching blood smears found on articles of furniture at the Merrill house Bloody prints of a third person were found and the sheriff is convinced there were three slayers