| Show Two men bound to District Court Courton on second degree murder charges Two men were brou brought ht before the Vernal City Justice Court Judge Lloyd E E. E Eaton Caton aton Tuesday and cha charged with second degree murder In the bizarre slaying of ot earold Lee 2 year old Danny Robinson Odessa Texas r. r TO Sheriff I Arden W. W Stewart Joseph Neil Harrison 22 Vernal and Earl Thomas Knight 22 Colorado were bound over to Fourth District Court on the murder charges after two hours of testimony in a partially filled court room The county attorney presented evidence in inthe inthe the case by ca calling ling six witnesses for the prosecution The with legat legal council were also present for testimony The pair were originally charged with stealing horses According to reports two Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officers nabbed a couple of horse thieves on Brush Creek Mountain in Northeastern Utah recently Officer Jeff Grandison reported that he heard a dispatcher call for Officer Udell Gardiner advising him that tha taU a U.S. U U. S S. Forest Service employee had been heen threatened by two persons discharging firearms around their campsite te SINCE Grandison was near the scene he contacted Gardiner Gardiner Gardiner Gar Gar- diner telling him they could go goto goto goto to the area together They found the camp but the two subjects were not there The officers found one horse tied up and spent rifle cases lying all around They also saw half halt empty bottles of ot homemade wine lying around Campers In the area informed the officers the two subjects had left on two horses with their rifles The officers waited in the area for tor the suspects to return After waiting for several hours Gardiner and Grandison started north on Highway 44 to see sec if It they could find the subjects along the road About Mi If mile down the road they passed two men riding horses and leading two other horses Remembering the men had left the camp with only two horses the officers suspected them of taking the horses from a herder at ot a sheep camp near the camping area orea THE TilE OFFICERS contacted the herder and he directed them to where his horses were pastured The horses and a saddle were missing The officers officers of of- and herder returned to the suspects suspect's camp and placed spotlights on them The herder identified his saddle Highway Patrolman Dennis Charlesworth Charlesworth Charles Charles- worth by that time had arrived on the scene and advised the suspects of their rights The men offered to make a adeal adeal adeal deal with the herder to return his horses if he did not press charges Gardiner and Grandison Grandison Grandison Gran Gran- dison advised them no deals could be made so the men directed them to the site of the horses The suspects' suspects gear which consisted of several rifles pistols and a shotgun filled the back of Grandison's pickup and were taken to th the sheriffs sheriff's office in Vernal According to Dennis Charlesworth Highway Patr Patrol l Trooper three horses belonging to Glenn of ot Salt Lake City who has a summer home in Flaming Acres were stolen and in the possession of the suspects A third person was suspected as belonging to the arrested duo since there were three horses saddles and other camping equipment AFTER A diary relating to the shooting a third member was discovered in the possession of the two suspects an unidentified body was found in Ashley Canyon August 24 under some brush following a massive two-day two search conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted by officials of Uintah County Sheriffs Office Utah Highway Patrol Vernal City and Wildlife Resources officers Sheriff Stewart sent the badly decomposed body to the State Medical Examiner for positive Ident Identification and cause of death Two gunshot wounds inthe Inthe in inthe the head were the apparent cause of Robinsons Robinson's death according to the Examiners Examiner's report Sheriff Stewart explained that the bonds of the pair are continued |
