| Show I Police Police- Checking ing Fingerprints Found on Olson Murder l Car Exploded Caliber Shell Discovered in Automobile at T yin Falls a all a G U A A A. An exploded caliber 25 cartr found ll-found found in the slain mans man's autom i authorities hope to solve solve the rr n George eorge L. L Olson 33 Salt Lake C This was revealed here Saturday upon pon the return from Twin Falls of H. H Rogers superintendent of the I Salt Lake City police identification bureau Mr Rogers aided Twin Falls authorities authorities au- au in inspecting the death car and fingerprints Neither of the two prints found on the dashboard are Mr Olsons Olson's not nor those of John W. W Deering 38 ex-convict ex sought in the slaying of 1 idge and two sets of fingerprints obile lobile are possible clues dues by which in Twin Falls FaUs Idaho of ity jewelry salesman the s salesman lesman as well as the murder in Salt Lake Cit City May 9 of Oliver R. R Meredith Jr Salt Lake Lale City business business busi busl- ness man Mr Rogers said Mr Rogers fingerprinted all persons persons persons per per- sons who possibly could have had access to the car and now is comparing comparing com corn paring the prints found on the dashboard dashboard dashboard dash dash- board with those he took He hopes Continued on P p. p rt Three Column One On j PRINTS LOCATED lOGA TED ON GAR GAB STUDIED Continued from Page One I eith either r to eliminate the dashboard prints as belonging to an innocentI innocent I I party or establish the possibility they are those of t the te e killer b e Mr Olson was shot while he sat 1 e behind the steering wheel or at 1 least in the front seat because the ejected shell was found lodged be beI between be- be II I tween the front seat back rest and the front seat cushion Mr Rogers said I 1 Probably Hit Shoulder I II The shell when it was ejected Iii I from the automatic pistol possibly struck Mr Olsons Olson's shoulder and andt t dropped down behind himA him A reenactment of the killing convinced convinced con con- vinced police that Mr Olson could I not have been dragged over the theIS IS front seat into the back where the body was found but that he was I dragged out the front door the then I stuffed through a rear door onto ont t r the floor The killer must have been in th the back seat because Mr Olson was shot almost squarely in the center cente of the back of his neck j Mr Rogers said that although th the fingerprints were not those of Deering Deer Deer- II ing the ex-convict ex still is a strong strong stron angle Had Reports I We Ve had bad reports none subs substantiated 1 tan tan- however that Deering was wa I t seen in Twin Falls raIls Other angles angle angles are being worked on too The Salt Lake City officer office brought back with him a copy o othe of the True American D Detective magazine magazine mag mag- azine for July found in the auto auto- I mobile He will run it through a t silver nitrate nitra e solution test to brin bring out fingerprints I The cartridge was found by Mr l Rogers Chief of Police Howard Gill Gillette Gil Gil- lette of Twin Falls and a Twin Falls Fall policeman while they were dismantling dismantling dismantling dis dis- dis- dis mantling the interior of the car Vapor from the body and blood carried by flies made it difficult to obtain impressions of the fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- fingerprints prints Mr Rogers said A new picture of Deering obtained ob oh- tamed by Chief Gillette from Fort For Wayne Ind md is a later and better likeness than that circulated by Salt Lake City police in the Meredith Meredith Mere Mere- case the officer said Deering's Deering's Deer Deer- ings ing's face is thinner and the cheek bones appear to be higher in the new photograph York Work on all Angle Authorities worked on the Deer Deer- I ing angle at Twin Falls after an unidentified transient appeared a at police headquarters here and said he had ridden with Deering on a freight train from Reno to Wells Nev on May 19 two days before Mr Olson was shot Deering the transi transient nt reportedly told told police left the train at Wells and said he intended to take another another another an an- other freight to Idaho A Union Pacific line runs from Wells to Twin Falls Mr Olson was shot last Saturday Satur Satur- Saturday day authorities determined but I the body was not found until Tuesday Tues Tues- day when an odor was smelled coming from the car parked in a hotel driveway Meanwhile Detective E. E A. A Hedman Hedman Hedman Hed- Hed man of the Salt Lake City police department said he still was pressing pressing press press- ing a hunt for Deering in the Meredith Mere Mere- case although one possible clue was eliminated That clue was a caliber bullet bullet bul bul- let fired from a gun obtained by Captain Hedman in Reno Deering was believed to have pawned the gun but the bullet did not match that taken from Mr Merediths Meredith's head Captain Hedman said I |
