Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 1 | Bootleggers May Have Slain Mason

ti r. r Ie MRY HAVE SLAIN IT XI DRIVER PROVIDES GlUE CLUE IS FOR SHERIFf Missing Insurance Agent Had Arranged for Purchase Puri Purt Pur- Pur t i chase of Whisky Father I to Ask State Aid r 5 OGDEN OGDEN Aug 6 Sheriffs Sheriff's Sheriffs Sheriff's deputies I Averts told today toay by Fred Newman a n chauffeur that Roland R R. Maeon Maeon Ma- Ma fason eon son missing insurance man had an engagement baSement with a a. group of at bootleggers bootleg bootleg- gers to bu buy a n. n caso of or whisky In Weber canyon nYOn the night his sedan was found in tho the river over a 3 thirty root root em em- J Newman said that Mason told him the bootleggers had instructed him to ta set let his speedometer at zero at tho the Broom hotel and to drive e on the Web Weber Weber We We- b ber r canyon canon road until tho device regIstered regIstered registered reg reg- eleven cleven miles mUes Thc The taxi man said Mason told toM him about the whisky de deal t on r Monday Monda and andt tot t first had asked ed tho the ulman to tomake tomake ton n make kc the trip with him Later Mason announced ho would make tho the trip himself Sheriff O. O H. H said h he hIs Is Is working on tho the theory that Mason Mason Ma oa oan son n met with foul play pIa in connection with this whisky deal 1 Allen Mica G. G Mason his rat father er tonight I ho would ask the governor to of offer offer of- of fer flir a reward He wants a reward as high as S I The Tho father declares Masons Mason's homo home life lite was happy that Mason could come como comoto to him or his mother any time should h he have needed mone money and the father I COuts any theor theory that Mason fled led with another nother woman i The of ot the missing man who I was as Ruh uth Bowman of Salt Lake re returned returned returned re- re turned toda today to Idaho Falls in a n. state bordering on collapse J