Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-09-25 | Page 11 | Gruesome Find Solves Old Mystery

GRUt Mt HD I SOLVES OlD I R v I. I J I Payson Salesman 1 Murdered I by Companion at I IIa F Ia flagstaff a S 1 I FLAGSTAFF PI Ariz Sept Sept 23 Th The The t dismembered Joe hotly of Martin I I 55 rG of ot I 1 a I Lra traveling salesman salesman sales sales- I man for O. O firm I a Cleveland 0 was as' as found nt at 2 o'clock yesterday esl IdE afternoon I In an abandoned dry well ivell 1 one mile mUe west or of of this city J Schwab had been I I missing since April 15 to last I I A small smal bo boy herding cattle catle come caine Cle upon a typewriter near the well veil I which I is located about a a. a mile mie off the main tra traveled Williams Flagstaff I highway Further investigation ls- ls 11 closed closet other belongings s. s His us skull J was waR found buried a a. a few Cew Inches under I I the tho ground Other portions of or the j I body were found loun ne near r b by hI Schwab was last lat seen alive e al here I I when he ho left lef Flagstaff In n a new louring tourIng touring tour lour ing car A examination i i I showed the skull had been fractured I I probably by a n bullet bulet I IThe j I The motorcar which he drove was wa not found Cound CLEARS MYSTERY PA PATSON PAYSON Sept 25 Circumstances surrounding the finding Chiding of the te bOd body of or Martin Schwab Jr near Flagstaff Ariz bear out the belief belet long held by his family that he came to his bits death through foul tout pIa play ilaY Further particulars I lars bars received ed from Flagstaff shed light on his final movements when I last seen and indicate that he be left Flagstaff for fOl Winslow V Arts Ariz in lef the company of ot a suspicious char character The condition of hIs Ills skeleton and a a. a fractured skull the burial of ot the thc body I in dismembered condition tho the absence of ot all al money or valuables and the disappearance disappearance dis dis- appearance appearance- appearance of or his Chandler car arc aro proof positive e that ho was murdered anti and robbed and ant that his assailant made away from the scene in his au automobile automobile au- au and dl disappeared Schwab who had hal been a resident of ot pason Payson for two years was 50 GO years of age ase and for or five c years had been a n representative of or the Champion RegI Register Reg Beg ister ster company of or Clev Cleveland land in the I intermountain country DISAPPEARS I He le left Payson for tor Arizona on March 18 is trading his Ford for tor a n Chandler at Iford and proceeding on 01 to Flag staff star Tho last word received recel ed from him was written to his wife from Flagstaff t on April 20 O when he told her he was about to depart depar for Winslow Winslow Wins Wins- low forty eight ml mites miles s distant After a 1 lon long silence Mrs Mrs Schwab became alarmed and search was instituted Tho The Cham Champion lon Register company compan became interested and anc sent scat a representative o to investigate This investigation os In showed that Schwab was last seen by an acquaintance in n Flagstaff Just JURt before his departure for Winslow I In the comp company n of or a man of oC bad I tation This individual was In shabby i dress nt at the time but later hot hail on better tress clothes Lal Later I still sUI he disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis beter cothes I appeared suddenly and mysteriously Tile The murdered man is survived by a aI I widow and five children of ot his immediate imme imme- diate family ami Mrs Is Fred Schramm a I sister and Carl Cart Schwab a brother reside In Pa Payson on while his parents and one brother reside at Smoot I Wyo Wy o. o