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Show ' ; jUIS 'FOR 'WIDOWS1 OF . :V : ; . ' SLAIN CARi;iEN;$4953 0 COilHITTXE FEELS THAT TETTT PLAIT IS . BEST FOB FAMILIES. ' The trust plan is held to be the moat practicable by majority of ) ) the committeemen, whose respon- slblllty In the matter will cease, they say, when the fund is divided ) 0 and turned over to the trust com- 5) pany. ( that of the M. M. club, an organization of twenty young women of the Twenty-first ward. This oragnlsatiod gave a benefit concert In Murray a few nights ago, during the recent Inclement weather, which netted them $13.25. This amount was handed to Orson P. Arnold, Ar-nold, Jr.. assistant superintendent of the street railway division of the Utah Light and Railway company, and a member of the committee, yesterday afternoon. Ccnmittec Haring the : Honey in Charge May V Decide to Place It in Trust for Families. The committee delegated shortly after af-ter the murder of Motorman A. L. !. Gleason ' and Conductor Thomas B. Brighton by J- M. Shockley to superin-v superin-v . tend the collection of funds for the benefit ben-efit of the two stricken families, has prepared a report of the financial condition con-dition of the movement . From all sources, including the amount of the reward money which Percy L. Prothero agreed to turn into the fund for the benefit of the families, - total of $495135 is In the bands of the committee for distribution. , The committee has not yet decided pon what plan the money will be turned over to the families. It has been suggested that the money be turned over in a lump sum, each widow . receiving $2478.67. and that the responsibility respon-sibility of the committee cease when ' the receipts for the amounts are signed - by the recipients. To this plan, however, how-ever, the committee, it is understood, . - .will not agree.- m- -Hay Be 'Placed in Trust. .A number of the committee members are of the opinion that the fund should be deposited with some one of the local trust companies to be held in trust for the beneficiaries, who would be allowed ' to draw the earnings and a sufficient amount of the principal to make up a certain total each year. They assert that by this method the best interests . . ef the unfortunate families can be served, as they would be protected from all risk of losing the source of , their Income. lj Of the total amount of $4953.33, in the T bands of the committee, Percy L. Pro-thero, Pro-thero, Shoeley's room mate, who revealed re-vealed the fact to the police that Shockley was the bandit who had slain the street car men, and those officers " who participated in the arreBt of the murderer have assigned $2000, out of the $2300 posted as rewards for the ap-' ap-' prehension of the murderer. The athletic benefit, given in the Salt , Lake Theater by the Shamrock Ath-. letic club, netted $1050. The benefit given by the Unique theater the-ater management brought $514 to the '. fund.- i The Salt Lake Herald's subscription list showed a total of $380.10 in cash contributions. Carmen Were Generous. . . j The street car crews, fellow laborers of the murdered men, contributed $225, and each of the widows received $250 . from the Street Car-Men's Mutual Aid association, a total of $500. As soon as A. W. McCune. president : of the company employing the men at the time of their death, who is now in Peru, learned othe terrible tragedy, he cabled $2n0 to the committee for the widows. This amount was received a few days ago. ' , The skating rink, which gave one day's receipts into the fund, turned in $21. The last of the benefits reported was |