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Show . 1 1 ' Kin of Slain Man Reveal He Feared for His Life Letter to Brother at Farmington Tells ! of Fights Between Bosshardt, Malan A brother and sister of Spencer Malan, slain Enterprise rancher, Friday revealed new phases of the bizarre case, kept secret for two and a half years by the confessed slayer, as they sought means to go to St. George and claim their brother's body. At Magna, Mrs. Eva Milan Hen-line, Hen-line, wife of William Henline, a W P A worker, said her brother feared "things aren't going to be good for me" when he moved to Enterprise in February, 1934. At Farmington, Goldie B. Malan, Spencer Malan's eldest brother and a worker at th Lakeview transient camp, said letters from his brother had intimated an affair between Mrs. Mslan and Charles Bosshardt, the confessed slayer, and told of fights between Bosshardt and Malan. Goldie Malan said he had also (Continual rm Pmkc Twtlvti . (Column Four; ' FEARS OF DEAD RANCHER BARED been told by -year-old Bobby Malan, son of Robert Malan of Marrlot, in Weber county, and a nephew of bis and Spencer Malan's, that "I know my uncle is dead." Goldle Malan said Mrs. Robert Malan and young Bobby were staying stay-ing with Spencer Malan at their ranch home near Enterprise when Mrs. Robert Malan went to the dance with Spencer Malan, Mrs. 3pencer-Malan. Bosahardt and George Schaefer. brother of Mrs. Malan and charged, with Boashardt, with first degree murder for the death. Neither Boashardt. Schaefer nor Spencer Malan's widow, now Mrs. Boashardt. has made any mention of Mrs. Robert Malan visiting at the time. Goldie Malan said he dismissed his nephew's story at the time aa a product of childish imaginings and paid no more attention to them. He said ha did not talk to Mrs. Robert Malan. Goldle Malan said he had read letters from Spencer Malan to Robert Rob-ert Malan, telling of how Spencer had warned Boashardt away from the Malan home and of fights between be-tween them, in one of which Boashardt Boas-hardt waa beslsn isvaralr tie said Spencer had warned Bosshardt against paying any attentions to Mrs. Malan. At tha Farmtngton camp Malan said, however, that he was satisfied satis-fied that Mrs. Spencer Malan knew nothing of her husband's death. Their sinter. Mrs. Henline, said she was satisfied from the first that her brother had met "some terrible death." I "I have known all along." she said, "that my brother met with some terrible death. They tried to make us believe he was some place in Oregon, but I knew differently." She said she had long been suspicious sus-picious of Schaefer, who was arrested ar-rested at Bacchus, near Magna, after Boashardt's confession, whicL implicated him. She said she saw him after the parade in Magna during a celebration celebra-tion July ft. "George came up to our car and asked if we had heard from Penny l nickname for Soencer Malan). she said. "I told him right to his face that he knew my brother was not aliva and asked him If he knew that they had found the body. George's face turned a funny color and he asked me where the body waa found. He made no attempt to defend the stories that he knew my brother was in Oregon, but Just walked away." Goldie Malan and Mrs. Henline said they hoped to go to St George and to bring their brother's body to Ogden for Interment beside his mother. They said they lacked funds, however, and Sheriff An-tone An-tone B. Prince of St. George, according ac-cording to Mrs. Henline, told her the state could not send the body! to Ogden without someone paying the bill. |