Show Madman Gloats as Tomb Waits for His 3 Victims By BILL McDOUGALL 1 I Bountiful's city cemetery Monday was waiting to receive bodies of f three persons slain in a macabre tragedy on Its very outskirts An October moon shone down last night as an nn apparent maniac sent ent bullets crashing through skulls of two women and a man Sunday evening They died on Cemetery road rand The same ame moon shone down upon the 10 Salt Lake Ogden City highway later ater as bullets tore through two unsuspecting motorists homeward bound Blood Drenched Scene It was an ugly blood drenched scene cene enacted beneath a moon- moon bathed studded star-studded sky It was a acene scene cene of lust frustrated passion and nd red rage of murder I George The Pig Rutledge 31 loved oved in a 8 morbid sadistic way Mrs drs Blanche Nelson 48 of Woods Cross who kept a lunch stand for i livelihOod near the Cudahy packing packing pack- pack ing ng plant in North Salt Lake I He came to be known as The Pig ig because of his voracious appetite appetite appe- appe tite te friends of the Nelson family aid zaid Staged Terrific Battle Mrs Nelson held Rutledge In contempt It must have angered him im for Sunday about 8 p. p m. m he went vent to the Nelson home Whether he ic met Mrs Nelson outside or Inside inside in- in side the house no one knows But a pool of blood 66 feet south of f her home convinced Sheriff Joeph Joseph Joseph Jo- Jo seph eph Holbrook she refused to enter the le automobile he was driving She must have staged a terrific battle to o stay out of that machine for her spattered blood body bore cruel scalp calp lacerations two blackened yes eyes and numerous bruises Then he IB sent a bullet crashing into the back jack of her skull police and sheriffs sheriff's sher- sher ff's iffs officers said Into the automobile he dumped I her body and sought a place to hide It He drove madly up Cemetery road stopped and shoved her body put out then dragged it face down into weeds on the roadside Freedom faced him so he must have thought until he hc saw another automobile parked in the dark shadow of a tree Headlights may have flashed lashed as Mrs Alice Atkinson East 38 became alarmed at what she saw The dead dont don't talk probably reasoned The Pig He shoved his hisgun hisgun gun through the partly opened right window of the East machine and pulled the trigger Mrs East's brains spattered over scat seat cushions The Pig then ran around the machine calmly placed the thc trigger against Mrs East's left ear lobe and again pressed the trig trIg- ger Brains and blood dripped into the back portion of the automobile as her head lolled backward on the car scat seat scatHe He had to make It a sure job Mrs East's first scream of terror and the shots Sheriff Sherif Holbrook said then brought her husband running running running run run- ning from o of his irrigation irrigation tion ditch The Pig met him 62 feet from the car In the field sent field sent a leaden slug into his right breast Mr East slumped to the dirt on his left side Th The killer sent another bullet into his skull He Hc had to make it a sure job The October moon shone on three still forms that W. W C. C Wood of Woods Cross led officers to Mrs Nelson was not identified until a. a m. m I Officers found her a ghastly sight face down in the weeds by bythe bythe bythe the edge of the cemetery Two sets of oC false teeth were found in her mouth teeming with blood Great bruises welled on her face and body Her scalp dripped red from gaping wounds Mr r. r East lay straight and still his tiis head pillowed on his left arm knees stiff his hat lying by his side His wife lay with her head on on the ground her feet on the automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile running board The Pig police theorize then started his mad ride back to his Salt Lake City apartment where he ie changed clothes and started back on the Ogden highway His insane course led him back to the Nelson home where he peered through a window at the daughter of at the woman he slew as the daughter sat in the parlor with witha a boy friend The Pigs burning eyes sent a achill achill achill chill of oC horror through that couple but but not nearly the horror listeners listen listen- ers felt when he cackled with laughter in a city jail cell after his capture He slouched in a chair in the jailers jailer's office office and and dozed Then he awoke and laughed and laughed and laughed He was laughing as the moon gazed sadly down on tears and cries of anguish from five children orphaned heartbroken parents of the slain and their brothers and sisters who sobbed and cursed by turn as the news was broken to them during the dying hours of the night just b before fore dawn |