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Show UTAH TRAPPER SLAIN HI TINY DESERT CABIN I Officer! Comb Wastes of Tooele County for Murder Clues Special to The Telegram I LOFGREEN, Tooele Coun- ty, Jan. 4 Old Sherman W. Cadwcll, 71, desert rat and ' trapper, Wednesday furnished ' this railroad whistle stop on ' the sagebrush wastes of Rush f, Valley with a murder mystery mys-tery more fantastic and more secret than his life. At Investigators combed bleak atrctchea of tha barren . Oqulrrh mountain range and tba chill, deso-lato deso-lato atretchea of thia valley, they had nothing to go on, no definite eluea except tha grim picture they iouna ruesasy nigm in oia a-well'e a-well'e cabin. Old Cadwell was found tied to a chair, his arms twisted behind him, gag In his mouth, a makeshift hood tied over his head and face , and two bullet holea in his skull. Nothing more. Bella life Dearly The Interior of the cabin was a wild scene of wreckage and disorder. disor-der. Old Cadwell sold his life I desrly. Furniture was smashed to ' bits, a radio reduced to aplinters. Hie last battle was a desperate one. t Tueaday night Sheriff White or- i I dered tha arrest of George Hayes. M. a trapper 4rho Hves one mile west of Eureka. Although no rea- sons were given for Hayes' arrest, Juab County Sheriff Heber Mellor Wednesdsy said the trapper was being be-ing held for questioning, "but no ehsrge has been lodged against htm ik1 he's wraps- or loco in techni- J cal custody." J - Herman Lofgreen, rancher and postmaster at Lofgreen, told a Tele-' Tele-' gram reporter that a aheepherder named Jacobean was obtaining a load of hay near the Cadwell cabin, which la three miles in the foothills from ths settlement. Jacobsen reported hearing a "terrific "ter-rific atruggle" in the Cadwell cabin Tuesdsy. about J: Its p. m., but did hot inveatlgsts. The slaying wss discovered about 4 p. m. Why Mr. Hayee was questioned ao one knew. Tight-lipped officers offi-cers kept their knowledge or Ideas a to themselves. I In Isolated Area jT Lofgreen is on ths sixth subdivi- A sion of the Los Angeles division of ft the Union Pscific system. It is I 14 miles northwest of Eureka, 4S , miles due south of Tooele, and la in Tooele county. Roada to Lofgreen Lof-green are nearly Impassable. There I are no telephonea for miles. , Robbery waa tha only motive ' Sheriff White could assign imms- - diately for tha staying. Four dol-l dol-l f lars in silver wss missing from a it leather jacket in tha cabin. Some-1 Some-1 one might have thought Old Cad-1 Cad-1 well had a hidden treasure stored .1 and attempted to force him into 'I revealing Its hiding place. A But If he did, Fred Toller, rail- H Contlnii.d on Pact Twtlvel M Column sourr 'Desert RaV Found Slain In Cabin in Tooele Countu pies of ore for msny yeara." Mr. Fennell said, "samples he collected slong the Oquirrh range. "I believe no one really knows the story of Old Csdwells life," Mr. Fennell continued. "He did some prospecting and trapping. He was more or less a desert rat, a sort of hermit who lived by himself most of the time, but he had been atay-ing atay-ing with Mr. Toller recently. He was old. but pretty spry." Mr. Toller said there waa 14 In silver missing from a leather Jacket which hung in the cabin. That slender slen-der clue furnished the robbery motive. mo-tive. Sheriff White was questioning all aettlers In this vicinity late Wednesday, Wed-nesday, but they could furnish hlra utile Information. tContlnuea From Psse On I road section hand, who ahared Old Cadwell's tiny cabin, knew nothing of It. Mr. Toller left the cabin Tuesday Tues-day about T a. m. and returned Tuesday at 4 p. m. to find old Cad-well Cad-well dead. Handkerchiefs had been used to faahlon the death hood. One bullet had crashed through the old man's temple, the other entered higher on the skull. The hood added a macabre touch to the slaying which made it all the moie fantastic. Did old Cad-weirs Cad-weirs stiller or killers fashion the hood as a "merciful" touch to the old man's execution? Sheriff Whit la speculating on that theory. P. J. Fennell, Eureka business and mining man and former Utah state senator, who haa known old Cadwell for years, aaid the nged man made a makeshift living from trapping and prospecting. "He has beea bringing me asm- |