Show BELIEVE BEU JAP WAS MURDERED Sheriff Sherif Sharp Leaves to Invest i Iriv v st sti gate g t Death De th of Mr hi TWO COUNTRYMEN HELD Deputy Arrests st Men Ien Who Said Youth Had Iad Committed Suicide Firmly of Q the e opinion 1 that a foi foul murder was wa committed Sheriff Joseph O Sharp and a deputy left leCt at 3 this afternoon for or a place called the Chicken ranch located near Pleas Pleasant Pleasant ant Green about four miles east eat of th the Utah Copper mill mi to make a n further Investigation Into the circumstances 0 of the death of o a Japanese named H M 11 aged 22 years ears who was wa found dead on olt tho hoer about 2 Wednesday afternoon with sith bullet bullo bul t wounds In tho the back breast and arm WAS s In the of K Owner of f the th chicko ranch Tho rho latter came to town Wed Wednesday Wednesday morning moring leaving on the place N S and H Narry ochi och brother broth r of the dead man Wednesday Wc n evening the tile sheriff ro 10 c hed word that the tha body of oC a a Japanese had been heen found at the ranch ranc and Deputy Deput Sheriff SherIf Ed Palmer am and of the th Pece Pe ce were wore dc patched to the tho scene FOUND FUND DEAD ON FLOOR I On the 1001 of the tho house thoy they found I dead His shirt had been lun remo d and and in a stove tove The wounds on the body bd bed showed he hat had h d been bach shot with a I rIle and a shot gun sun One of the tho wounds was in the back between the u shoulder blades H ary arry oshi anti and nn were tho the only other on the at the tho time of ot th the shooting and they the declared that It was las 35 a case of suicide but as us there were no evidences of powder burns hUrns on tho th bony Deputy Palmer Palmor at once concluded 1 there here was wn something wrong about abut the tho tenement statement and he ho placed H and ind under arrest and and lodged them hem In the count county jail Jai early caly Ing ng ngIt It was known that the dead man was wag demented and had ha acted In a strange manner for some time Matsumura volunteered to take care of oC him when It was vas suggested to send the man to the tha State State Mental hospital He took Narry Narl oshi to his ranch and gave him work The rho Jap Jal acted all aU right from that time timen on n with the exception of occasional spOils polls of sullenness Matsumura knew nothing about abut the the tragedy t edy until late Wednesday VI nesda evening when ho he was wa In Informed formed for that was WM dead de and and then Me hurried to t the scene Reene Statements made by the brother of oC tho the dead dea man nian and ad by b aroused the tho suspicions of ot the officers and they the ther ivere r taken aken Into custody cust y They declared that the th shots were tired fired frd about 2 and that the thC wounded man lived lve until after 5 In view of the tho nature of the wounds this would have been Im tin Impossible Impo possible po in Sheriff Sherif Sharps opinion During DurnI the th day da Sharp harl and his deputies with an an Interpreter have hae been questioning the tho prisoners and andi while they the failed to get got a a positive statement from them their story was wa rambling and they the contradicted each other in inmany inmany many Instances Sheriff Sharp Sha decided to me further furher investigation and for fort that t t purpose has ha gone to the scene of ot the tho tragedy In the th meantime the two Japs will 11 be held and ad no doubt a n charge chare of murder In tho the first frt degree deso will wi be bo lodged against thorn thor |