Show Price Mystery clue Shattered I Police Baffled at Every Turn Ba Baffled at ever every turn by one of the strangest cases in the Intermountain intermountain inter inter- mountain west the law was makIng making mak- mak Ing a a. determined attempt Thursday to Identify the bod body bUrned last month montI at a ranch house near Billings flu flu- lings and bUried Cw Years Year's eve with elaborate services as James Claude Price Montana rancher and salesman Three weeks after his SUpposed charred remains were found In his his' former cabin near Sweetgrass count county by his wife Price masked and manacled manacled man man- appeared at a Main street servIce station here Sunda Sunday morning and told a weird tale talc ot of being and held prisoner by three men Belief Bellet that the bOd body was that ot of Thomas Jr who disappeared disappeared from his home In Butte In November was dispelled toda today according according ac- ac cording to an Associated Press dis- dis patch The skull found In the ashes Coroner C C. C D. D Graft Graff said showed evidence of considerable dental work Young had very little his father said I Sheriff Ed Brannin ot of Sweetgrass county count County Count Attorney John N. N I MacFarlane and PrIce were ere en route home Thursday Where tle tl e next chapter in the mystery case will have to be unraveled The called so-called man In the rubber mask tailed failed to be shaken by Salt Lake police pollee examination and on account or of lack ot of clues Price has not faced a charge Count County Attorney MacFarlane Mac Mac- Farlano Farlane admitted he was puzzled and could not bring a complaint against the ranch ranchman man until further fur fur- I thee ther investigation or of the case ase was made BasIng theIr solo ol hope ot of tying the body found in the ranch ranch- house through the dental work in the skull Montana authorities were faced wIth a perplexing problem Two or three possible clues under consIderation Wednesday were blasted when sheepherders declared missing were found Salt Lake officers who have doubted Prices Price's abduction story have sought the aid of rooming house owners and dentists In all the cities ot of Utah In an attempt to find definite facts to disprove the story but so tar far nothing has been establish lish ed |