Show Deputies ies Question Clark ClarkIn In County Slaying I i t. i. I 2 1 I I i 4 I 4 bg ro iri iriL r L ro rot t N k r j jI I 1 It y V h V it FIGURES IN SLAYING OF SANDY RESIDENT Ercil ErcH Clark left and Deputy George L L. Knepp top lower Annie AnnieLa La Vatta held as a material witness 41 Yn e Confessed Killer Denies Using Knife Upon Victim m Salt Lake county deputy deput sheriffs Thursday questioned Erell Clark 20 of Sandy admitted slayer ol of another Sandy resident Willis B B. Ferguson 29 Deputies George Beckstead and George eorge L. L Knepp said Clark admitted admitted ad ad- shooting Ferguson on October October October Octo Octo- ber 1 near Copperton but disclaimed dis dis- claimed knowledge of a knife wound found In the victims victim's body Clark who vho with his j 17 old 17 old ear cousin Annie La ta a Vatta was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- rested Friday near Le Grande Crande Ore Is charged with first degree murder He probably will be arraigned arraigned arraigned ar ar- Friday deputies sold said The girl who is being held as a material witness had been residing temporarily with the Clark family Questioned by Deputy Beckstead Beck- Beck stead Clark related how he and I the victim met in BIngham drank some same beer together torether and then start start- ed home They stopped slopped the car Clark said because Ferguson wanted to drink more beer When Clark declined to drink he said Ferguson threatened him and chased him around the automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile until he took Fergusons Ferguson's gun from the steering post and shot I him The deputies said a deep knife wound which caused considerable Internal bleeding before his death was found In Fergusons Ferguson's body but Clark denied dented knowledge of It Clark and Miss La Vatta were returned from Oregon Wednesday Although the girl was not a witness witness wit wit- witness ness to the crime deputies said she is being held because she probably had knowledge of ot the crime |