Show T That's the Man Man Daughter of Slain Woman Says on Seeing Se ing Rutledge By OTTIS OTIIS PETERSON him That's the man From the shadows of the Salt Lake City police show up room Nelson Nelson Nelson Nel Nel- pretty year old 23 ear Blanche son early carly Monday pinned this accusation accusation accusation ac ac- ac- ac on George Rutledge as the man who pr prowled around the outside of the Nelson home a few tew hours after the body body- of her herm mother moth moth- ther th- th er cr a bullet through the brain was was was' found on a nearby country road She watched with a fixed horrified horrified horrified hor hor- s stare are as Rutledge guided by Sergeant Sherman L. L Falkenrath Falken- Falken Falkenrath Falkenrath rath stumbled on the brilliantly lighted stage Two uncles brothers broth broth- ers of the murdered woman stood nearby fists clenched until the knuckles showed wed white Her brother stood beside Her lier bit biting ng hard into a handkerchief to k keep ep from crying aJou aloud She stood silent as Rutledge walked arrogantly on the stage then turned to the officers and said pl plaintively God if you only knew how v rocky I am you wouldn't be doing this to me Then as of Police W. W L. L Payne straightened the man man up front tosho profile view Blanche turned to Sheriff Joseph Holbrook of oC Davis county and said in a a barely audible whisper him that's the theman theman man man Reiterates Accusation- Accusation She reiterated this accusation in a formal statement made in Chief P Payne's Paynes office fi e l later terin ter- ter in the morning adding that the man had met her mother while Mrs Nelson the operated a small cafe ate near Cudahy Packing corporation in North Salt Lake Rutledge a meat buyer had frequently occasion occasion occa sion to visit the Cudahy plant She told neighbors later that Rutledge had attempted to force his attentions on her mother on previous occasions but had been repulsed I III left mother home working on the registration books she told Chief Chic Payne Mrs Nelson was registration agent for the Woods Cross First precinct while I went out about 7 p p. p m. m with Otto Rufan Rutan We returned about 11 p. p m. m and found mother was not there Lawrence was home from work and mothers mother's books were still spread upon the table Car Drives Up Then about 1130 p. p m. m this large green I car drove up and stopped in front of ot our place The driver sat there for a a. few minutes then got out and walked around the north side of the house I walked into the bedroom bedroom bed bcd room and could see sec him through I I the window r f Finally he turn turned d and w walked back I recognized him as the theman theman theman man who bothered mother at the cafe As li He drove away Otto ran out into the road to get tJ the e license number but the the tar far was too fa far faraway away Her statement was supported by her her old year old brother Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence ence who ito from work at a Woods Cross service station about about p. p m. m and found h his s smother mother gone The children after atter waiting a afew afew few minu minutes es became n nervous and and- asked Vernon Brown a neighbor to aid aier them in a search They turned nearby roads stopped atthe atthe at atthe the home of J. J H H. Oldham in North Salt Lake who was to have taken some somo drug supplies to the home during the evening but returned empty handed the hunt unsuccessful Lies Unidentified The body of the mother a widow since Lawrence N. N Nelson died of influenza May 15 1918 a Continued on Pace pue Seven Seen lAUGHTER DAUGHTER PICKS i t OUT RUTLEDGE Continued front from Pale Pice One few C ew months before young joung Lawr Lawrence Law Law- r rence rence was born lay unidentified jor for or several hours first under the tho hazy lazy hazy moonlit sky a few ew steps from from the Bountiful cemetery and later ater in the Bountiful morgue before positive identification was r established The first clue came from Dr J J. r. r E. E Tro who vho checked scars sCarS cars and operation marks Then T r I law brother Leland Sessions of Bountiful was called in K One glimpse was enough He nothing The manner in which he burled his face in his hands while his shoulders shook with ith silent grief was sufficient To Mr Sessions and Sheriff Holbrook an old friend of oC the family went the difficult task of of 5 1 notifying no tring the two children waitIng wait wait- waitIng waltIng Ing expectantly at home homo for their mothers mother's return Then Tilen it was that the daughter established established tho the first connection with the man who had been forcIng forc- forc jing Ing attentions on her mother the theman theman man who is believed to have returned rc- rc f turned to the start of his fiendish crime inc wit within in a few hours after his hig first visit and the man held heldt t by Salt Lake City police 1 What took place between 7 p. p m. m when 1 when the daughter Blanche left I the mother Blanche alone in the house chouse and when the son Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence returned from work at 9 30 p. p m. m may never be known own Blanche the daughter has re reIterated reiterated reiterated re- re iterated time and again in the hours since her mothers mother's death that I am positive my mother never went with that man will will- She has told me me she hated hi A large Jarge bruise over one eye and torn stockings indicating a struggle and the fact that she was clothed only in light underclothes underclothes under under- clothes a house dress and slippers slip sUp pets pers Jer seem to substantiate the theory that she was abducted against her will vill and met a horrible horrible hor hor- death on the lonely south Davis county road Mrs Nelson was born in Woods Cross November 1 1886 the daughter of Gilbert Stuart and Ellen Moss Hatch The parents live only a mile northwest of the Nelson home f r Surviving in addition to her parents arc are three children Blanche and Lawrence Nelson of Woods Cross an and Mrs Barber of oC Los Angeles three grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters Mrs Clara ClaraM M Egan Mrs Edith Mrs Alice Haacke and Lawrence Lawrenc and Reed 1 M. M Hatch Woods Cross Mrs Rilla Muir Oakland Cal Cat Mrs Mary Sessions Bountiful and Mrs Lucille Barber Salt Salt Lake Ci City t |