Show PRESTON DISCHARGED By WEBER OffiCIALS OGDEN May 6 The Tho The last and nud what was wa at at one ono time thought to be bo the most direct clue due to tho the identity of the box car robber who killed Deputy Sheriff Seymour Seymour Sey Soy mour Clark at Uintah the evening e of November NO 2 26 last was abandoned yesterday yester- yester eter d day y when Herbert Preston n who has been held d at r the tho el county tt l jail rn for several lh months I was Wil released from cueto custody and Ind the tho chargo charge of box car robbery robber against him was wa dis- dis missed Preston was U arrested at Salt Snit Lake Take City and brought to Ogden Oden after he had hod made mado madea a confession n 0 In t the I presence 1 of officers t from ro both cities 1 I. I which h F tallied I re In every detail with lh clues upon which h they had been working He declared that hn was waa with a n man named Burns the night tho tha deputy sheriff was killed He lie le leo also said sherl wal that the shooting h was done by Burns s and oBi g ed tb that after e hearing I I t the shot he van ran sf f several several sev sev- eral miles boarded hoarded an early morning train to Salt Halt Hal Lake and stayed under cover In that city Ity for several days das To add to tho apparent authenticity of his hi story stor was a statement made by Preston's wife to local officers In which she declared that Prell Preston ton returned to his hil home in Salt Lake the tho next morning after the shootIng shootIng shooting shoot- shoot Ing with wih a bullet bulet wound In his leg Ig which was abstracted by a a quack doctor on Commercial street Tho The officers after hearing the womans woman's story readily concluded that they had I one on of tho the men responsible for tho the death of Clark After his hil Incarceration at the tue county Jail jai Preston who Is II said Bald to have been a a repudiated his first I Io story to o do with declared the h Ia affair that was uh he not o had are present nothing I at atthe I tho the time and did not know tho the roan who had been referred to as al Burns Burs who was said to have done the shooting Mrs Mr Preston Prston Ionel also allo denied that she ah had ever I er made a statement of an Incriminating ing nature against her husband Every effort since to obtain a statement from the corroborating their first frt voluntary I nta statements s have havo y proven fruit fruit- less Fearing a l ieT that st t the tho evidence l eon would not bo be sufficient to hold Preston on tho the I chargo charge of murder oras orvas an nn accessory ho he was charged with wih oras burglary burglar and loveral several district weeks ago was bound over to the tho court for trial After endeavoring to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain sufficient evidence e which would warrant warrant warrant war war- rant Preston Preston's trial the district attorney attorney ator- ator ney and the officers rs decided that ho he ought to be released What hat prompted Preston and his hil wife wie to make mako tho the startling statements Isone is isone one of the man many mysterious things In connection with th the whole case which the I officers have not yet solved |