| Show New Evidence Studied In Officer Slaying Case I A pistol believed to be the weapon used in the slaying of Moab police off officer Lloyd Larsen Larsen Lar Lar- sen in January of this year rear ear has been found submitted to the FBI and returned to local authorIties au au- au- au It was learned Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day Offices Officer Larsen an inquest Found was slain b by Moab barber barber bar bar- ber Terrill Paulson as the of officer U- U eel sat at a desk In the Moab police station The Investigation I located 0 C a t e d three bullets fired into and through the officer but the weapon despite an Intensive search had never been found City Judge William R. R Mc- Mc Conkle r told The Times dent that it had been called to ht Ills attention by a member of the press that the Sheriffs Sheriff's office of of- ice flee was in possession of a pistol pis pta tol that might be the murder weapon on September 7 The gun was obtained by the court on September 9 and mailed malle l with the recover recovered d bullets bullets bul bul- lets to the FBI Sheriff John Stocks said Wednesday that the gun had been teen turned into his office late In August b by Dean Malin MaUn Ma Ma- lin Un of ot Moab Mr Malta Malin had hadeen been een clean I pg g the property behind behind be- be hind the store and found the weapon under a trash can the Sheriff said The area had been seen searched intensively the Sheriff added after the double tragedy Paulson was known to have had iad a gun of similar make to the bullets ballets but died l by his own hand land the inquest revealed before be fore tore revealing any anything thin on the shooting Sheriff Stocks said that his office wanted badly to find tine the gun earlier to obtain finger finger- prints Some prints were on the rusted weapon found It ap The lack jack of communication between the court and the investigating In Investigating In- In officers is Judge McConkle said eald the weapon was waa sent to the FBI W with q the tho request that It be examined for fingerprints detected detected detected de de- de- de by the sheriffs sheriff's office and tested The FBI fingerprint leport report said that no latent impressions of or value were on the weapon On October 4 the full report report report re re- re- re port and the submitted weapon weapon wea wea- pon cartridges and bullets were returned to Moab The cartridge cases three in number num num- bet ber were still in the gun when found The report said that rifling characteristics of seven lands i and grooves were similar on the bullets to the revolver Based on that similarity the bullets could have been fired from the suspected revolver However the report continued contin microscopic marks on the bullets changed with consecutive consecutive tive firing probably due to rust Consequently it has hag ha not been possible to determine whether whether whether ther or not any of the submitted submitted sub sub- bullets were fired tired from the gun The report went wem on to say that the bullets were of the same calibre and make as the cartridges found in the gun and that the cartridges had been tired fired by the revolver Any of the bullets could originally have been loaded into any of ot the cartridges the report said salet Sheri Sheriff Stocks said that he was satisfied that this was the murder weapon Judge Mc Me- Conkle Conkie who conducted the original or inquest expressed the same opinion The court obtained also further fur tur- ther Identification On October 13 3 an affidavit was signed by bya a friend of ot the deceased Ten ill Paulson stating to the deceased and J Identifying the Enfield Mark I 1 weapon wea wea- pon pol as similar In fn all aU respects to the one owned or possessed by Paulson Ronald Cassettari said saide he e had handled bandied ane and shot the weapon while it was in tn the possession possession possession pos pos- session of at Paulson Faulson I except that this weapon is in rusted condition This his is the same weapon or Os- Osone one j just t exactly like it ft the stated |
