Show WOMANS WOMAN'S BODY BARES DESERT MURDER Cowboys Make Gruesome Find Seven Miles From Automobile Road Far From Nearest Cal CaI Town CRIME BELIEVED COMMITTED DEC 22 El EI Centro Authorities Baffled Baffled Baffled fled by Absence of Any Missing Woman Body Carried to Lonely Spot RIVERSIDE Cal March 3 By U. U P For P.-For For the second time within a month the desert has revealed the se secret secret secret se- se cret of ot a murder With the finding of the body today of or an unidentified woman far tar in the desert sands sev seven n mIl miles s from the only road In the section sheriffs sheriffs' I deputies were called on to solve a bat bat- fling mystery Only a month ago two youths confessed confessed con con- to killing kHUng Leslie sUe L L. L Nichols In Insurance Insurance In- In agent who had given them a arIde aride aride ride across the the desert after atter having forced him at the point of ot a gun to walk more than a mile from the road stretching across the desert toward Blythe on the Colorado river The woman whose body was wag found today is Js believed to have ha been murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered on December 22 according to word received here late today The body was found by cowpunchers who reported it to Deputy Deput Sheriff S S. A A. A Ragsdale at Mecca The body was found seven se miles from the automobile road running into Desert Center a watering watering watering wa wa- station half halt way between Mecca and Blythe Great difficulty in solving the mystery mystery mystery mys mys- tery is Js expected by the authorities asno as asno asno no record has been found of any woman waman wo wa- man being missing from hero here or neIghboring neighboring neighboring neigh neIgh- boring towns Early speculations were that the woman woman woman wo wo- man had probably been murdered her ler body carried to the nearest t point on the road by automobile and then la laboriously Ia- Ia carried step through the shifting sands into the heart of ot the waterless waste The coroners coroner's office at El Centro Centre the county seat scat wilt will take charge of the body and hold an Inquest probably on Monday It was learned |