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Show n ML mis Men Placed in Jail at Provo Pending Investigation Inves-tigation by Officers as to Being Implicated Pl'R men are in jail at IYoto and two other are being held at Dividend by officer, for au-peeted au-peeted cannectlon with' the at- tempted holdup at Dividend, near Eureka, Wedneaday niche whan John Weaterdahl, superintendent of tha Tlntio Standard mine, and U P. Peteraon, proprietor of a pool hall, were murdered and J. P. Moneon and Jeaua Hamandei were aerloualy wauaded by the band It . Poaaea were spread through tha hllla about Kureka. Thursday morning and roads leading in all direction, wer. guarded. . Near the etore were tound . two pairs of overshoes, an overcoat and a mask out from tba aleere of a ' man's eoat. HELP IN HUNT. Sheriff J. D. Boyd af Utah county. . In personal chars, of tha manhunt mada yesterday, waa joined lata yesterday yes-terday afternoon by Sheriff C. Frank Kmery of Salt Lake and a posse. Chief Criminal Deputy Hherlff Herbert Lelrhter of Salt Lake waa (iven ull charge of tha questioning of auspeeta ' who had been rounded up at tha Tlntlc Standard mine and at a nearby Mexican Mexi-can section camp, tinder, arrest- and at the Provo Jail, where they were taken after-mldniaht last night, are) Katourlslss Lebsrlo. Mateo Chaves. t ' Zavedro Ksequlel. . Soprano Torres, ' Thoae held at Dividend are Louis . Rodrlques and Felix Atenclo. MERE YOUTH. All tha men under arrest are erar.-ely ' more than boya. Each anawers fhe genera description of tha bandits and -all became confused In the stories that i they related to Chief Deputy Lelchler. Sheriff Kmery and ether questioners last night. They were unable to ac- 1 count for themselves at tha tima of the shooting except that they ware In . their tent at tha section camp. The ufflcera are aeeklng two Mexicans, aaid to be In Kureka, known by the names of Uarcla and Vlsortsga. Information gleaned from the men who were questioned ques-tioned laat night ahowed suspicious actions on the part of the latter two. . The offlcara are also keeping a Mexi. can woman under surveillance., sha Is said to have left for nearby hllla with a basket which la believed to have . oontalned food. Whether she is feeding feed-ing the fugitives remains to be determined. deter-mined. Oscar Bloom, who waa In the atora at tha time of tha murder of Weaterdahl Weater-dahl and Peterson, and who narrowly escaped death, has been unable to Iden- ' tlfy any of the suaperta. TELL THE STORY. With the queatlonlng by Deputy Lelrhter last night was for the first developed the authentic story of tha holdup and the murder. In the room of the Dividend general ntnre, when the bandits entered, were. John Weaterdahl, superintendent of ' j the mine; L. P. Peterson, proprietor uf the pool hall: Jesus Hernandes. for-, " ruer employe of the store; P. Wlber j and Oscar Hloom. J. P. Mansott, pro- , prietor of the store, entered Just after ' he men had been ordered to hold up their hands and stand along the wall, lie thought the "holdup" was a Joke, and made a Joking remark to the men itanding with their hands raised, hut rne of tha heavily mafked bandita turned the gun directly towards him ind ordered him brusquely to put up tils handa. Manson was directed to open the safe, and ha was followed-by followed-by one of the bandits into a small tdjotnlng room. He reached toward the wall to turn on a light, and It la thought that the bandit mistook tha motion for an attempt to draw a run. tor he began shooting. His three bandits were alarmed by tha shots ind opened up their guns on tha men In the store. SHOT TO KILL. John Weaterdahl fell mortally srounded with a. bullet In his fore. Bead and another In his side. L. P. Peterson crawled from tha tor and a distance of fifty feet after (Continued on page 4.) . FOUR HELD AS TINTIC SLAYERS (Conlinuod from pave 1.) brlnff shot, lie died in less than half an hour. J. P. Mm n son wan nhrt In th left ! flhouider, th left and the left ! eibow : Htii rondtnofi wia reportetf favorabU lant nixht. Jesus Hernandes received a bullet In the aid of hts face which penetrated pene-trated both cheeks. Oacar It loom wu stnndlnir berlrfe Westerdahl when he Taa Phot down. Hloom dropped ti hia hands and knees, crossed tha room snd crawled behind the electric piano. Rulleis from the run of the bandits marked hts path across the floor. Wiber likewise crawd across the room and manajisd to ret out the front door. lis ran across the road and dropped in the brush. Add Ins a note of horror to the murder, one of the bulleta aimed at Bloom, as he crossed the floor, struck the electric piano and atarted It to P-aylna lively Jass musir. It ws 4T'Ttt e vta I mtn-ftf laif by mef arousd In the carnt. s WIRf UNIEEN. . No one saw the bandits leave the store and the hurriedly organised searching parties had no clue upon which to work when they started looking look-ing for four stocky Mexicans. The n hoot in took place at 11 p. m.. and) Mexicans on the night-shift oould well have done the Job and fane- to work before midnlyht. sccordtpii lo mine officials. of-ficials. Sheriff Boyd of Viovo reuched the mine with his deputies at S a. m. and took charge of the situation. Keeling waa Intense at the camp all day yesterday and more than fifty men were armed with Winchester rifles and sent off Into the hHls. Hloom and Wlber. who were In the store at the time of the shooting, recalled re-called that the store had been Intending Intend-ing to close for several minutes, but that Hernandez had Inslsed on playing pieces on the electric piano. Herns n des, st first, told the officers that the men were from the section gang and that lie could Identify at least one- nf them. When the section gang waa lined up before him he waa unable to identify any as the bandit. SPANIARD FIRST. In the roundup of suspicious characters charac-ters tCstouVdtslae Iebarlo. a Spaniard, was the first taken Into cuatody. He laid rff work the afternoon preceding j the shooting and did not appear for work the next morning. Letwr!o, a ' ...ere youth, was arrested recently In ! Kureka and a revolver, a burglar s j "Jimmy" and passkeys were tsken ' from him. He waa released with a warning- Mateo Chaves, tfoprano Torre snd Zavedro eequlel were I taken Into custody st the order cf Chief .Criminal leputy sheriff Lelchter of j Halt LeUke after Leetvsr.o had been thor-! thor-! outrhly questioned. The four men live iln -the ami tem at the section camp. According to their stories, they were is the tent asleep hn the shooting i ; occurred. Vhaves and Torres sid ! they went, to the tent at t p. inland in-land went to bed and that the tSpan-! tSpan-! tard came In oefore they went to j rfeap. The Hpantard said he went to tO tent and to bed but that Kxeuuiel was not In - He fixed the time at 10 p. m. Uxequtel, on the other hand, declared that he got Into the tent be-fore be-fore the Spanish boy and that he wss tn bed when the. latter came In. The ' Hpaalard named several, men with ( whetei lie said- he had been during the) evening, and upon examination these uenied thU they had been with him.. .... j AFfCB ANpTMIrt: Vlsaiagi. said to be an Intimate! , friend of Chavrx and lebarlo, left the 'section camp two days sso. supposedly supposed-ly bouhd fur Kureka. He was being ! sought trdny. (is rets. too. Is said to be acquainted with the two and he Is I Known to have told a miner tliat I Hanson had better took out. "for his stole was going to be held up soon. Thorough questioning of all Mexicans Mexi-cans la the district waa planned by Sheriff ll yU for today. It was Intended In-tended to begin at the Tin tic mine enj the jectlcn camp and to continue the Investigation Intd Kurek. (le-nrtre ! Taylor, special agent of the Denver ; Rio Grande mllroad. arrived at the raining camp yeaterday afternoon and sent out descriptions tn all stations J und trairmen who might come Into! contact' with fleeing Mexicans. Tay Unexpected Un-expected to aid In the general roundup round-up of auapacious characters today. All the ways out of the Tinlic territory are belnr guarded heavily and anv at-terpt at-terpt af the guilty persona to escape will result in capture, officers believe. Mr. Writer 'ahl, one of the victims, was bora in Finlaad. forty-six years sari. He was engaged In mlnina: about Rait Lake for twenty-five yeara. 8ur-vlvlnc 8ur-vlvlnc nim are hla wife, two daughters, daugh-ters, H.lin and Isabelle, and seA-eral relatlvea la the Tiutio district. Funeral services will be held at the H. D. Kvans parlors Saturday afternoon at X p. m.. under the auaplcea of the L . O. V. lodge. Vr. Teteraon. the second slcllm. wsa born In Halt Lake. August 11. ?RM. He Is survived by tha widow. Hutb Heilman IVtron; hia parents. Mr. and Mrs. Christian l'e:er.n, HI 5 IMair nenue. and three ailra. r Mineral Mi-neral services will be belcl at the Second ward, chipel. Keventh South and etecimd rat -aireeta. rtunday at 1 2 : 1 S p. m. Interment will be In City cemetery. |