Show J POLICE TIGHTEN r I CASE ON BRUTAL's BRUTAL t I I j- j r. r s KILLER OF THREE Butcher Grilled in Maniac Slaying Bountiful of Trio By y JENNINGS PHILLIPS With the blood of the three victims of Bountiful's Sabbath murder carnival scarcely dried ried oh on his shoes George GeorgeL L. L The Pig Rutledge 31 Salt Silt Lake City meat buyer and utcher butcher cowered in the city jail Monday while Monday while police sought to link him with San Diego's os o's MAD GUNMAN'S VICTIMS u y y l. l f l V m y 4 q s. s Y A l r N 5 o Sf r i h rr Sr f t s l r rG G db rr rI f. f t 5 lr r V G n 4 r n i iThe The victims victims- of George Ge rge L. L The Pig wild night of murder Top Mrs Blanche Hatch Nelson bellow below below be- be low John Loren East and his wi wild wife Alice A. A East rec recent nt ho horror sI slayings and the poss possible ble killing billing of a Rock RockSprings RockSprings Springs pItch hitch hiker Definitely connected with the tIle maniacal murder of a Bountiful farmer his wife Tife and another woman and the subsequent shooting of t two tTO TO motorists and the tIle attempted killing of a third thir on the tIle new nev Bountiful Farmington highway highway high high- way Sunday night llight former San Diego butcher may be the tIle slayer who vIlo left a ghastly l trail of murdered women Tomen in the southern California city last year Police Chief William L. L Payne Payee announced I Mysterious circumstances surrounding an all unknown hitch hiker whom Rutledge is said to have picked pic eI up near Rock early Sunday led Chief Payne to remark that we think we we may have another nother kill killing ng to tie up with him liun Rutledge Chief Payne s said id admitted picking up the ille hitch hiker What did you do with him the ch chief f asked ask 1 I 1 d ts remember member tl the e suspect suspect t answered A. A O Uv O ink evidence to connect Rutledge with the murder ID d r of 9 MRS BLANCHE NELSON 48 of South Bountiful Bountiful widowed i dowed mother of three children and J. J LOREN EAST 42 East Bountiful far firmer farmer ler and his wife ALICE ATKINSON EAST 38 parents of two VO children has been uncovered Chief Payne said and as a result San Diego police are checking The Pigs possible connection with the tIle slayings there Meanwhile Sheriff Joseph Josep h Holbrook of Davis D vis county announced Rutledge will be he charged with first degree murder as soon as County Attorney l Orlando Bowman can draw up a complaint The sheriff said that as far as I Iam am alII concerned Rutledge Rutledge Rut- Rut Rutledge ledge will wil not have a sanity hearing Mad with the lust for blood police say the triple slayer left the tIle bodies of his victims to seek new conquests in a death patrol of the Bountiful Farmington road firing Continued on Pue Pile Two I I MIGHT HAVE DONE IT wc f k t t 4 S' S s l w ri nr Y t Ji JiL L r y ii si c It- It fa GirY J f 3 i if f 4 J lt K j L S l lY 1 J P 0 i j jf 4 Y f fk Ifa yr k f j M r C 7 rs r's N 1 1 I r M i J i fj 1 1 ry h A 4 d J. J f 3 WI L Y George L. L The Pig Rutledge Police Clinch Evidence Against Killer Killel of Three Continued from froni race Face One indiscriminately with wanton joy at the drivers of passing pass passing ing cars One bullet huIlet crashed through l gh the head of George Reich 23 23 Eighth avenue another slightly wounded voll Keith 26 of North Farmington and anda a third struck the windshield hut lut from the car of O. O L. L Squires 1016 Douglas s street Reich's condition is is reported serious at L. L D. D S. S hospital Hes HC 8 a n sadist Chief Payne declared after a two two- hour Lour grilling of the suspect He Hc killed for the lust his of killing The Thc modus operandi operand thc the motive all factors factors factors fac fac- tors in ill th the Bountiful murders match c circumstances ol of oC the thc San crimes We have an open and shut shu case casc against him To all of this tILe the short but hut powerfully built huilt butcher arrested by two Salt Lake Luke City police officers in ill n the Log Cabin resort resor on the Salt Sail Ogden Lake highway just three hours after discovery of the triple slaying in East fast Bountiful and shortly after the attempt on the lives I of three motorists Sunday night says I might have done it I it-I I dont don't remember CANT REl mER Call Called l The Pig by of the Cudahy Packing company's restaurant at North Salt Lake Lk where Mrs 1 Nelson was employed Rutledge confronted with vilh link after link of the most damning evidence possible possible possible pos pos- sible to obtain reiterated My ly mind is a bIa blank k I ea cant can't t remember Against The Pigs Pig's loss of memory alibi Chief Payne said th the police will match the following significant c cant findings He was wearing bloodstained shoes He was carrying a n loaded revolver which had been fired ired not hot earlier than two hours prior to his arrest His revolver fired a bullet taken from front East's body His apartment yielded a stained blood-stained suit s still ill dripping ripping from a hasty washing when found by hy police His garage garnge housed a small coupe its coupe its cushions drenched with nith blood strands of a womans woman's hair cling cling- ing ng to tIle the upholstery He had made advances to lo but had been spurned by y Mrs 1 Nelson first victim in the murder orgy He was identified by Mrs lUrs Nelsons Nelson's daughter Blanche 23 as as a man whom she sIle saw peering through the he windows windo of the Nelson home after the thc murders and luring during the time tilDe the he phantom killer was riding his liis death patrol on the Bountiful Farmington road Mrs lUrs Nelson was enticed from front her home and after icing being brutally slugged was killed with a single bullet on n the way right-of-way of the new Farmington link ink of the Ogden highway about 60 feet Ceet front from her home lome in the tile sight range of passing motorists it is believed Sheriff Holbrook whose f forces combined with those hose of oC Chief Payne in the thc f feverish search for the tic tic- killer definitely established the time of Mrs l Nelsons Nelson's murder as shortly after aCter p. p in nt A motorist passing the Nelson home at nt that time the lie sheriff said told him hint him he lie saw a woman and a man manin manin in conversation standing behind a light coupe just south of the house Blood clots and trampled ground at this point the tIle sheriff announced convinced hull hint the slaying occurred there here rather than thau as first was as thought on Cemetery road near the East farm Thrown int into the killers killer's car described as a small coupe Mrs IUra Nelsons Nelson's battered bleeding corpse was driven riven to a spot within a few hundred yards ards of the East home ionic in in East Bountiful on a n lonely lane Jane southeast of I Five ive Points A bright moon lighted the thc macabre scene The car stopped on Cemetery street so called because be- be e- e cause ause a cemetery parallels the highway there MARKS 1 CHART COURSE Tire marks charted the killers killer's course for investigators investigators investigators gators in rec reconstructing this phase of the murder The killer police believe turned into the driveway drive drive- way vay of the East farm backed noisily into the main road and drove north again for yards ards DUMPS BODY IN DITCH Here Herc apparently believing himself to lo be he unobserved unobserved served the killer skidded his car to lo a sudden halt hall He flung lung open a n door dragged the battered body of Mrs 1 Nelson STelson from the soaked blood-soaked scat seat and lumped dumped the burden like a slaughtered sheep on the far fur bank of a ditch fronting the cemetery Then as he returned to his car it is thought he lie found his gruesome frolic had bad been witnessed Mrs 1 East her children said had thriven driven Mr Ir East to a lane at the north Dorth end of the East farm faim parking while her husband tended the gates gales of his irrigation system The killers killer's rage spurred him to further homicidal horn hom frenzy as Mrs IUra East stricken horror-stricken by hy the scene to which she was sas an unwilling witness backed her car carout carout carout out of the lane made a half circle and apparently intended in in- tended to drive past the murder car to the East home h for assistance But the frenzied murderer struck too loo OPENS DOOR KILLS WOMAN Before BeCore Mrs 1 East could get set her lier car in ill motion the thc killer was at its side suit Flinging open opeil lie right front door of the sedan he lie fired with deadly aim The bullet bullet bul huh let tore through Mrs 1 East's face below the temple Continued on Pan Pitt Nine Nina olice Clinch Evidence Against Killer of Three Continued From P 2 merged and crashed through the closed window of ofie ie IC e left front door i Then fearful he had the killer I ertain H Hie He calmly rolled down the riddled bullet window id ud d pumped another bullet into Mrs 1 East's head But ou on the open half-open right front window which je Le gra grasped with his left hand when firing the first shot he Fie e killer left his fingerprints The shots police believe were heard beard by Mr 1 East ho ran f from the field south toward the parked carRAN car RAN TO MEET 1 EAST I t Th The killer again demonstrated the demoniacal fury ury ry which motivated his two previous horrors He Heid did iid id not wait vait for East but hut ran to meet him hinl footprints footprint it 1 the crime scene indicate They They met Inet i in iii 1 a corner of the field The ground showed Yo to signs of a struggle The killer fired once twice jf Apparently when East was as within a few fe inches of the therun theun run jun un muzzle the madman sent his Ius fourth bullet on its message if f f d death ath It plowed into East's right breast and the powder Urn must still have hav been smoldering when a fifth slug tore ot gh the farmers farmer's head I Then with his lust Just for blood temporarily sated the killer chimed to his car carand and sent it careening into the night down he cemetery road to lose himself in the heavy weekend on the main highway at Five Points f r DESIRE TO KILL FLAMES lES AGAIN Estimating the time of Mrs Nelsons Nelson's murder at tm m. m and the killing of the at or p. p m. m lolice ohice found that the feverish desire to kill had flamed again agair a n the thc killers killer's twisted brain at p. p m. m A car not the coupe which served the slayer earlier but larger more expensive automobile bearing California Ii- Ii ense ns plates roared northward over the new Bountiful- Bountiful armington road past the house of his first victim seeking ew conquests Fate FaJe cheated heated the lic killer in what was vas probably his Ms first at- at on passing motorists it developed Monday 1 when L i. i S. S Squires 1016 Douglas street reported being the target f t a shot at p. p m. m under the Parkin underpass on OIl the ew Bountiful Farmington link where the slayer rode his rim patrol I saw a hand from a window of a light car as asre S rc c re passed it on our way yay to Salt Lake Lalie Mr 1 Squires told Po- Po ce cc Chief W. W L. L Payne and something hit the windshield f r CONVINCED OF ATTACK t f r My ry family and I thought it was vas a rock but fter after read- read ig 19 g about the murders we e arc are convinced it was as a bullet and lat we e were the he killers killer's first highway target Chief Pa Payne lle found lead marks on the cracked windshield id rid confirmed Mr 1 Squires belief N Nobody body knows how hov mat many y people he really tried to wipe it lit the police police- official said l' l The e attempt ton the thc Squires family must have occurred 5 i the the killer killer was va fleeing from th the scene of the triple slayings 1 i East Bountiful Bo since the crimes arc are believed to have lav been at T 1 p p. p m. m Mrs 1 J. J P. P Sharp 1215 Yale avenue and Mrs 1 John ather lather East Thirty-third Thirty South street were passe ers rs in the Squires machine when the shot was vas fired George Reich 23 Eighth avenue driving south was vas turning with a party of friends from front Ogden 1 l. From the front seat scat of the killers killer's car as it passed the eich etch machine came a flash and a roar 11 SLUMPS OVER WHEEL Reich shot through the left side of the head slumped over the wheel heel Blood poured from his mouth and irs rs The southbound car veered but was vas brought under and finally halted by Hilda Hicks 75 Wolcott Volcott street passenger in the Reich car Reich was taken to the L. L D. D S. S hospital where his con- con tion was reported only fair The death sedan with its maniacal driver at the wheel ed 00 on its way unchecked and a few miles beyond the scene the Reich shooting the killer found another target Keith 26 of North Farmington was pr proceeding rth irth alone in his light coupe after visiting a friend fr end in Boun- Boun ful ui when the killer drew abreast There her was another flash and explosion like a ball of e re Sec st told police but the killers killer's aim for the fir first t ne rae during his orgy of murder was vas wrong MAN IAN UNDER ARM ARl f The slug tore through the metal door just below belo the window windo v of the coupe was deflected upward d and andrack andruck rack ruck under unde the left armpit The wound was vas slight 4 t i the killer confident of his fifth victim hurtled into the as before k returned to Farr Farmington 1 obtained medical aid from r. r George W. W B Buchanan chanan and telephoned the city marshals marshal's fice The he alarm was immediately relayed to Salt Lake LaJe City d ld Ogden police and the intensive manhunt began in earnt earn- earn t t spurred by the fear that the speeding madman would I l nt new victims unless t t. Sheriff Holbrook and d his chief deputy Calvin Roberts c ere cre investigating the triple murder on cemetery road when l ie IC news hews news of the killers killer's new crimes reached them f BLOCK BL CK SALT LAKE ROAD I They hey 1 began an immediate patrol of the new Bountiful- Bountiful arr arming ington ton h highway as Salt Lake City police blocked the uth th end at the Log Cabin resort and other officers kept atch at the north end of the link Watch Vatch for a green sedan California license license- were ie Le radioed instructions that put every Salt Lake City police car into the hunt Captain J. J G. G Smith the south end blockade blockaded id d S Sergeant Sherman Falkenrath was patrolling nearby hen a green sedan drew up to the North Salt Lake resort A short set heavy-set man an got out furtively glanced g about id ld d disappeared in the shadow shadows behind the building It was I S ENTERS THROUGH BACK SACK DOOR j r I followed and saw him enter enter the pl place ce through a back backor or Falkenrath th explained Captain Smith was was s framed ram d in ine ini e i front doorway I knew we had him trapped and I was we were in plain clothes Falkenrath sauntered past the booth where Rutledge had ted himself and as the officer suddenly whirled Rutledge e. e He reached for his right hip pocket ct and I grabbed his tn I with one hand and flipped a gun out of a holster in ii his p pocket with the other Falkenrath explained Captain Residences of Trio and Panorama of Brutal Crime Locality w v I 7 I uI ft b I C i i iL L cd h V mr 4 j t 7 r kAi r pi I 4 I 4 i N i y 4 I L 4 4 t 4 1 b k T i JJ w 4 I 4 4 S. S i i l- l 2 P s. s 4 a 1 r S. S 7 t AL t tV m 4 V 4 t I 2 mm SI J l l M. M 4 Y t 4 I tT vj f 1 5 i J Smith was beside him a later and we had handcuffs handcuffs' on him before he could move The revolver proved to be a Colt of caliber shooting a heavy bullet It was loaded and inspection showed it had been fired wi within thin the previous two hours the officers said PROMPTLY FALLS ASLEEP T Taken to the public safe safety y building Rutledge was yas disrobed disrobed disrobed dis dis- dis- dis robed of his outer clothing including ng h his s shoes and placed in a cell He promptly |