| Show I Almost Abandon n Hope of I b Solving the Murder Mystery Small Chance that Slayer of Sheets Will Ever be Publicly Known Was No Ordinary q Holdup Private Business Affairs Probed Carried Insurance Finding of Old Clothes Seen by Teamster The of oC tha the law have hale almost abandoned hope O of ot ever aver apprehending tho thu murderer or om murderers of or M 1 SIJe II or of oC solving the time mystery sur ear surrounding rounding hla hili hl tragic death lenth III In have lu they followed every possible clue that could bo be seized upon Theories have hav teen belm pursued and run down dowl un an until antil I til the tho police say Bay they emm go 0 no far farther farther ther timer It was waa thought that the tho liberal rewards reward offered for fOl mid convie conviction convictIon tion ion by h city state and amid county caunt might cause e nn no accomplice or other othmer person with knowledge of ot the tho dreadful crime to tl come Collie forward and disclose tho the facts In Inthe Inthe the case cne as they tIle did In the time at first equally Incomprehensible and rays mys mysterious m ShocKley Brighton homicide But thus thins fur they thuy the have not done don so HU Time The lh man or tim men Who took toole the life and money of or M 1 Sheet have lale disappeared liS as s completely a II mit though thought they the had hud been a swallowed allowed by tho time earth carth The Inquest has been suspended un an until antil til t 11 next Monday afternoon nl III 2 J At that time the Inquiry will probably be drawn to a I close unless unIs s some somo audi addi additional light Is IB thrown on omi th thu deep 1 ell ten t el 3 County Attorney I 1 P ChrIstensen this morning stated hint there them was nb ab absolutely nothing new In the time caw case Mr r ChrIstensen In Is of the opinion that tho murderer of ot Sheets was wu no ordinary holdup No witness has buy been heen found Comma who saw fI time the murderer In lii alt all probe probability probability ability the time last man ceen een on the th Iree at lit time the time of the time tragedy was Sheets himself Yesterday afternoon a testimony was vas brought out to tills this effect I The Che wittiest s who gave this evidence elden e was Willi James Durand a teamster who resides s at lit 6 60 r 4 Third East 1 street He lie was driving homo home homont nt at about 81 last l Thursday eve In fact tiet t he delivered coal to T Tn Tit n it e who resides M In Mr Jr J D El H McAllisters house After Arter Having l a ln thie th coal 1011 and us mis he was tras backing Into the tho street lie he sail said he almost ran rai Into a aman aman man maim In describing him hIm he lie said He Ifs was M of medium build and I should Judge he h weighed about HO pounds pound He lie JI wore wor a f del by hat hot n II black overcoat Olt and the collar was turned tinned up upI I am sure HUrl that he had a v very ry heavy moustache I did ihU not know Mr Mc III Sheets but from his hili hi photograph I would saY S Y that time the man I aw saw looked Sheets SheAtH Yesterday afternoon come collie boys bora play playIng Ing lair on omi time the corner curner west of ot McAllisters found seine 6 old clothes clotheR under antler a bridge The Tho r mor Immediately started that time the murderer had awny blood bloodstained bloodstaIned bloodstained stained garments The TIme police pollee were wire no notified to titled and secured lIe thi th clothing but hut It did not take long bug to determine that they had no mio n connection with tin thit tragedy Tho The clothing was found to ho b very ery rr old Anti And had evidently been h 11 In itt the tho ditch for u mc long bug time timmie II III e eThe The Time mire lire working diligently V now non to discover everything eler possible about the dead mans personal affairs They Y have hare gone thoroughly Into tile business of oC the Sheets estate but bitt find nothing of a nature to Lii throw light on the murder Iid heets have luve some other othmer business I b lila his with the I That In is Ina I Ia isa a question time the authorities 1 would like to have answered Another Is ls DM Did he hI have an ami enemy through m private business who would 1 com coma commit mit murder It Is Iii known that Sheets had h r very fry lit m tl tie If I left out portion port Inn of hl hIs hlA fathers estate Through K In his hilt totally family antI an from business ln losses loses the th money mOlle WOlf wan used Time The question of his hili Insurance In has hAil been fully full gone gono Into As All previously J stated tat tl In lii the these e columns column he carried a policy peller for fOl 2000 2001 In tho the A O 0 U W S On Ott Nov 01 13 he ht took look out nn isa accident nt policy poll for 2500 In favor ta 0 of cit t lilt his wife alit Sheets also carried 2000 insurance In the tha In dependent Order of Foresters and on omi Dec 1 28 paid his dues dUell to Secy A T 1 Tibbs Time The dues due amounted to I It 11 was Wal on th the same sam day lieu m paid 81 dues due to the A k O 0 U IV 1 On these thes oc occasions Sheets appear to be In a cheerful frame of mind At present the officers arc working to locate te every ever person who heard thi th shot fired or who was nt 18 on the pear the time of the shooting In Imi fact fart they are ue peeking every eler scrap of or testimony which might In any an wiy wy throw light lighton lI ht on the time mystery |
