Show uray P Poison Fiend Eludes Eludes' Officers ClUS j A I 1 IN Mysterious rious Phone Call to peterson Is Being Traced 1 INQUEST IS CALLED Witnesses to Give Testimony Testimony mony Friday I Vho Tho murdered little Kenneth enneth p Pc- Pc terson and 1 Margaret Bateman Z Shat hat was the motive for the takIng takIng tak- tak I. I Ing of the lives ot of two children unde 3 years ot of age These are the two which are baffling the sheriffs sheriff's office as Criminal Deputy L. L L. L Larsen is bending every effort to solve olve one ot of the strangest crimes ever committed com eom- in Utah the poIsoning by strychnine of children ot of Mr 11 and Mrs ernhardt Bernhardt Peterson ot of Murray ont od Tuesday night One mysterious feature ot of the case cas which the officers hope will be valuable In tracing the Identity ot of the slayer is the telephone call which Mr Peterson claims to have receIved two weeks ago At that time Ume an unknown voice asked him it if his life Insurance was paid Up and advIsed him to pay it u uD It if it wasn't S I something was going to happen to him h hi said He carried car car- ned ried Q a 2000 on himself and anda a 35 policy on each child MOTIVE LACKING The complete lack ot of a a. mothe 1 is a which Is stumping the officers in their investigation since the Petersons claim to have no known enemies An Inquest has been ordered by the county attorneys attorney's office for tor 10 o'clock Friday morning in the court of JUdge H. H T. T Mathews l In Murray The list ot of witnesses to be examIned exam exam- med Ined has not yet ret been completed but will Include the Petersons their two daughters Sina and Melba l Henry Bateman father tather one ef at atthe the dead children Mrs A. A Youngberg Youngberg Young Young- berg and her daughter Esther neighbors of the Petersons and Kate a neighbors neighbor's daughter daugh- daugh tel ter who was helping Mrs Petersen Peterson Peter Peter- son sen In the housework on the day oJ of the poisonings Assistant County Attorney George Geoge E. E Marshall will conduct the inquest POISON IDENTIFIED Strychnine was established by State Chemist Herman Harms as the poison oison by which the children were killed and was found In large q quantities in the half gallon ot of water In which the pOisoned meat was vas lying before it was ws cooked The analysis of other parts of the dinner internal organs ot of the dead children will not be completed before before be- be fore two or three days Mr Harms sa d. d The phot photographs graphs which Alva Al Stout chief of the identification bureau took ot of the fingerprints found on the pantry window which on page 8 MOTIVE CLUES STILL LACKING IN BABY DEATHS I Continued from page 1 th the Petersons saId they found open when they returned to theIr home late Monday night were so indis- indis I as to be of oC Questionable value Mr Stout said Thursday morning Only two prints were found by hIm I and these were both smears on the outside casing The raIn accounted for tor theIr dImness he said No prints or marks of any kInd were found by b Mr Stout on the inside ot of the window after a most minute ex- ex The had long been deI desirous de- de I sirous siloUS of adopting the Bateman baby whom they had cared for as foster parents sInce the death of Mrs Bateman following the bIrth ot of the baby more than a year ago but Bateman had refused to allow them to make the legal transaction transact n. n Mr Peterson said The matter ad been taken up before Juvenile Co rt Judge Fred R. R Morgan who as making an Investigation Noth ng had been done about it at the time timeo o the baby's death No funeral arrangements for tor the children have et been heen made |