Show SALT BUSINESS MURDERED FOR MONEY R HAY COLLECTS DEBT OF 3 AND IS SEEN NO MORE ALIVE body fondd burled in a lonely spot bear ilia blome barely covered with earth bullet hole in back 0 head tell story of crime peter the ma 1 nolde hay a for the charged with the awful deed james R hay secretary of alje pa lumber company at salt lake who disappeared monday night after having collected 3 due from peter Morte usen a contractor was foully murdered his body was found wednesday forenoon bur ed in a shallow grave along the right of way of the E grande western s park city line near biath east and twelfth south hay was shot in the back of the bead tw ce and h s head evidently bruised with some blunt instrument peter the man who al leges he pa d the money and who has hay s receipt for tl e same is in a 1 charged with the crime the story is an unusual one was indebted the pacific lumber company in the bum of 3 monday after banking hours he called at the uptown office of ther company and stated that 1 e had the money at home to d on and re that that evening lectured and get it Manager George E gomney for keep ng so much anoney at home and positively refused to send for the money and positively in hay not to accept the money until the next morning with this un der stand ng and hay left the office and took a car for home they living in forest dale a few rods apart what transi red on the way home to induce hay to d sobey posit ve orders and call for the money at night is not known I 1 about 9 clock monday n hay drew on his overcoat and left borne for s to get the money telling his wife of his errand and stating that he would not be absent long mrs hay reined and did not awaken until 3 clock when sl e became ap because her husband 1 ad not returned and hastily dress ng her self went across the street 0 o morten sen s house arousing him to inquire about the m asing man assured her that hay had left hi shouse with the money about 10 clock to take the money up town to turn over to mr gomney and that he probably missed tl e last car home and had re bained up town with friends As hay did not appear tuesday ng an inquiry was set on foot told a stra story about hay s having called about 9 30 clock taken the money and given a receipt for the same which he exhibited that he had left sl artly afterward with the intention of taking the money up town and turning it over to mr gomney for safe keeping putting tl ese together the officers suspected fl and sent descriptions of the miss abroad in hopes of apprel end ng him hay s friends and assoc cites however in s sted that he had either been foully dealt with or had lost h s and their suspicions were verified by suase quent developments upon the d of the grave the officers were not fled ne ghiors of hay were soon on tl e ground among whom was when the cers arrived the body was soon un covered the was barely beigh teen inches deep and scarcely covered the dead man s feet the hands ere folded across his breast and his overcoat drawn over his face to hide it from the asnass n s v ew or to protect it from the dirt after a bl ort consultant consul tat on morten sen wis arrested on gaspic on of having committed the deed and is awaiting a preliminary examination he stoutly maintains his innocence |