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Show ANOTHER CRANK. This One Writes a Letter in "i'li;-! atin' MAKES A GOOD r?) GUK88. Aa to tObfrobabl a Location of t he Wagon GaorKs He is in Connecticut All Eight TyrtH Undoubted Had Noin-lce Noin-lce to ao With iue Butchery. Murtier mysteries aiwaya develop a op of cranks, and the I'eiican Point triple murder mystery le no exception to the rule. pirhu.ilisUc cra&ka have approached ishertff B.-own, the crank who writes on paper and puts the pa-p pa-p .T iu a boltie has shown hh handiwork, handi-work, and now the crank who writeB aunonyuioua and cipher let Lei 8 has came out of his hiding place. Sheriff Brown ytstorday found in his box at t'ie posti-tHce, a Jetter which purports t) baye Dean written on April 12ih at Lake hhore one day before the body of Albert Krnatrom wan found fioatinz in the waters of Utah lake, e it speaks of only two bodies to be found, showing show-ing that it must have been written at a later dale. Undoubtedly it was written after all three bodies had been fouod. The letter Is written in a plain bat not an elepant hand writing; tne words are spelled after the style ot schoolboy "pig-latin," only thai the letters V and e" are used superfluously superflu-ously to end words with. Thus the ord "there"' in "pig -latin" would be ereth." Mr. Brown's crank friend writes it ''eretha." The letter translated reads as follows: "Lake SnOBK, April 12, 1895. "Mr. John A. Brown, sheriff of Utah county: There ia to be found in Utah lake (if it was searched well) the bodies of two men, one with a 33-caliber pistol with four shells; two are loaded and two are not. Tftey were murdered, though Harry Hayes was not the inur-derderer. inur-derderer. Tne wgon suck with the .wo bodies in. It was about two miles from Pelican Point, northwest. It you ever read this you will not belie? e it. Out search for yourself; don't give op yet. VYnen the bodies are found, it will change toe suspicion a bit. Near the corral is a big pool of blood; find tbiB, In the house there are turee; find ihtse. OnkwhoknOws 'This information ia infalaable. "Tnere will be somebody who caa read it. "P B. This will be brought to Provo and posted." It will be observed that there is nothing in this letter other than what has been published in the papers. The Dispatch told about the pool of bleod found near the coiral and thr blood found in the house; the statement . f its local contemporary and iha Salt Lake Tribune that tnese facts have never been published is erroneous, i The two bodies were found; neither j one of them bad upon it the pistol de-bribed. de-bribed. The only guess "One Who Knows"makes that is at all startling (?) is the one with reference to the place where the wagon waa probably sunk about two miles from Pelican Point, northwest. Carl Swenson, constable of Lake View, now rsmemers that on February 20th, he passed Pelican Peli-can Point on a prospecting tour and noticed and spoke to his father who was with him about a peculiarity-wagon peculiarity-wagon tracks running cut on the ice aoiuheaet, away from all broken tracks and ending abruptly and no returning tracks. Mr. Swensen went out yesterday yester-day and located as best bia memory would serve him, the piace these tracks ended. It waa in the opposite direction as "One Who Knows" indicates in hie letter where the wagon was sunk. The dredgers are carfully and very thoroughly searching the take in that immediate vicinity pointed out by Swenson today. Otto Olson ot Provo Bench also saw these tracks. The letter was posted in Provo April 25 h. If It is no- the work of some "smart Alec" it was evidenth written by some friend of Hayes, the pu'pose being to distract attention and suspi cion away from Hayes. Geo. Hayes, the young man who waa her.' last fall and whn, it seems, was not a son of Harry Hayes, baa been positively ascertained to be at Lis mother's homo in Connecticut where he arrived in January last. No stock is placed in the theory that George Trell, stepfather of Andrew Johnson, had anything to do with the butchery, f'ecanrrove conclusively, it 13 said, that he was not out of Eu-rr Eu-rr ka one right tn F b.usry where he j was at work in a livery stable. j |