Show THE DROWNED BOY THE MYSTERY OF THE FATAL MATTER MATTE R THE tile BODY YET unfound the report of the drowning g in the jordan niver river of a boy boy by the name of has been beeri con confirmed amea tile the sad event occurred on wednesday evening in the neighborhood of therall the railroad road bridge at the foot of south temple there is botne boine mystery as to exactly how and where it happened owing to the reticence of the boys who were with the one who was drowned drow ln relation to the matter some of them claim that luke the missing ladys lads first ahme name was in bathing with them on this side of the river precisely the spot they refuse to tell or at any rate it has not been learned ant and that they went across thio phio thu bridge to hunt for fb frogs leaving him beal beni behind lid aliea they came iback back he w was ap not to fo be sp seen n hild and fit they 1 I 1 y t took ook his clothes over to ta the e 0 other t e r s side i da of the tho fe fence defice fice i this was abo abndt tit 7 4 two hours later mr lelyu hyrum tn the b boys father gas gaa ifo informed r med by them ot of lehat what haa had taken place ape above statement was made to a NEWS skews reporter this morning by mr ed Joh johnson lison ilson a friend of the family who has been an energetic searcher after the body all arl anh so far A without success lie ile says lie he has interrogated terro gated two of the boys personally and that one of them burst into hito tears and said something like this you think that I 1 pushed him in but I 1 the conclusion of foul play or even thoughtless iiii mischief on this slender proof would not of course be jus justifiable justl lusti tillable liable but when taken in connection wl with the alleged unwillingness on ohe che part uart of the boys to tell all they know of the affair it would lead one to suppose that there is so methin something something about it of a mysterious nature chic which 9 ought to be cleared up n the re search for the body was kept up allday aliday yesterday without avail mr nir johnson and dr benedict got not perm werm permission 1 s of the city authorities to use giant powder at the tile river and exploded five shots in the water without fetching up ut the object of their quest mr air joseph mackay a herder also rendered assistance in the search which is going gain gron on at theare the present writing mr johnson intended going down t this fais kils afternoon to the dam near pettits Pet tits about three miles below the tile white bridge to hunt there for the body which he is satisfied is not anywhere in the vicinity of the rail rall 1 way bridge where the boy is supposed to nave have gone down and he is of the opinion that hat the undercurrent under current aided by the explosions might have rolled the corpse down stream alo aio along the bottom of the channel the parents of the missing ad lad are residents of the seventeenth Seventeen ih ward the mother is wildrith wild with grief grief and the I 1 eel lugs ings of the tather father and an the rest test of tile tiie household are but little less intense the fathers name is hyrum and he is the keeper of the lunch count counter erat at tufts and Ny stroms saloon main street lukenas luke was 12 or 13 years old and was employed with his father doing such work as peeling potatoes and hf alln to prepare lunches for the customers I 1 ile he left thesa thema the loon about three wednesday afternoon and was told by his father fattier to zo u directly home but he lie did not to do ho go or 01 at least was not seen about the house or on the premised remise afterwards the supposition E is s that he luet inet some boys on the way nome pome and was them to accompany them thein down to the river for f or a swim lie ile had bad never been there before and antt was not able to swim so that going goin out of his depth was if nothing intervened equivalent to poing boing ing to his death he was out at the lake a few days aso azo but would not RO go in al alove above ove ills his knees I 1 as he was unable to take care of himself where the water was deed deet deep the search now nov in progress will be kept ept up till the body is recovered or every means exhausted to that end the sympathy for the distracted family is widtfelt wide felt and sincere E johnson and elbridge El bride tufts are arc interesting te themselves in taking up a subscription to defray tile the expenses of hunting huntin for tile the body and of its it burial when bound found wrom FROM SATURDAYS Dk DAILY deiry IrY iny AUG 13 I 1 third district Di court proceed P ings before chief chiet justice hunter on saturday aug au 1884 J 0 ot et al N vs samuel shill shili demurrer tle cle of defendant confessed by plaintiffs s and leave given gisen to amend complaint julius juilus ot al vs marx goldstein et etal al on motion of C K gilchrist and it appearing to the court that the goods attached herein and now in the hands of the united states marshal are in an insecure condition and perishable the united states Al arshal marshai Is permitted to seli seii the said goods roods court adjourned till Monday aug 18 1884 at 10 am the jordan ulver river fatality the search still goes on for the body of the drowned boy luke and has thus far been una unavailing lie ile was between 11 and 12 years old instead of 13 the mystery in relation to the tile ex es where he went down and the precise r eaise manner in which tile unfortunate fo event occurred vet et remains unsolved the boys bos with him still evade the quention tion refusing fusing to tell anything further than has already appeared in print A k woman livin living 11 about a block north of the railway bridge says that on the evening of the fatal she heard a voice in the direction of the river cry out help me im drowning repeating it several times but as it is so common bonwith with the boys who frequent the jordan to continually make believe in this way she thought nothing more of it until she was apprised of what had taken place |