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Show " i -. . . - . of. the gallows, was granted a full pardon aid, exonerated inthe "eyes of the world.' ' .T - . -r- ':"r - - Then began the, search for -Wright; which -haa been, kept, up continuously until the vigilance of the officers, here and elsewhere, was rewarded by ais capture. The conclusion of the case wilt be watched with great interest. -' - , OLD MURDERS MAY YET BE AVENGED. The announcement in yesterday's dispatches of the arrest, in Williamston, W. Va., of George II. Wright on the charge, of murder committed in this State more than ten years ago, is welcome news tothousands of Utah people, who, for nearly a decade, hare lived jn the hope that the Pelican Point tragedy would some day be Avenged and the perpetrator condemned to the scaffold or death chair. - The courts, however, will doubtless be more than ordinarily careful this time, as an exceedingly narrow escape from a fearful blunder was made upon a former occasion. Standing alone in its atrocity, the details of the Pelican Point murders are still fresh in the minds of the people of the State. The murder was a triple one, three young men having been shot dead and their bodies deposited beneath the ice of the lake, to prevent discovery. The murders were committed on February 16, 1893, and the bodies of the victims were discovered within a short time thereafter. there-after. , ,t ' Suspicion was at once directed to Harry Hayes, the step-father of the three, and he was arrested and subsequently charged with the murders. Public feeling was naturally inflamed and justice was crying aloud for someone upon whom vengeance could be ' .' wreaked. Hayes was quickly brought to trial and convicted. La-:ter La-:ter the sentence of death was passed upon him. He appealed the case to theSupreme court of the State, but that tribunal announced that it "was unable to find any reversible error in the record and the ' judgment of the lower court was affirmed. i During all this time, Hayes was continuously protesting his Innocence and not a few people believed him to be the victim of cir- cumstances. It was then that it was determined to make another effort .to save Iris life, and Judge O. W. Powers was called into the case. The Judge went at the matter in deadly earnest and his"ef-forts his"ef-forts were crowned with success. Within a few weeks he had presented pre-sented to the Board of Pardons an array of testimony, tending to i show beyond all doubt that Hayes was many miles away from the scene of the murder at the time of its commission, and that Wright was, in all probability, the guilty man. With this tb'ojying-before it, the Board of Pardons acted " jromptiy, and Hayes, whr had for months lived within the shadow , ' ' i - ' - - |