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Show STILL UNSOLVED. The Pelican Point Murder Still a Mystery. DID OTHERS PERISH?! It Looks Like Two of Harry Hayes' Coua-, Coua-, inn Also 21et Death at the Hands of His Assassin -Evidence Before the Coroner's Cor-oner's Jury Being- Given Today. The Pelican Toint murder mysterj? deepens. The theory now is that not only Harry Hayes lost hia life at the hands of some cowardly assassin upon that lonely raDch, but that Andrew Jobn'm and Alfred N. .Nelson, hia couBina and companions, were also murdered aud their bodies thrown into the wster3 or Utah lake. The lake is to be thoroughly thor-oughly dragged if the bodies are in it, undoubtedly they will be found. These companions, Johnson and Nelson, are the two men whom the ouieers went to Benjamin or Lake Shore for yesterday intending to take them up to tho inquest and from their evidence glean something that wouid le.id to the identity of the murderer or murderera of poor flarry liases. Judt;e of the surprise the officers offi-cers inet with on reaching .Benjamin when they were told that Harry's cousins cous-ins Lad not shown up at home since eoiiie time in February when they k-ft there with a load of hay to join Harry on the ranch where together all three men had liyed happily an-t contentedly all the winter. During last winter the boys hauled several loads of hay from U-njauiin across the lake to .Pelican Toint over the ice. During the middle part of February it was deemed unsafe to cross the ice and the last load was taken around by the way of Goshen. Relatives Rela-tives of Johnson and Nelson at Benjamin Ben-jamin were not alarmed over their failrure to return, thinking that perhaps per-haps they had gone off prospecting or perhapa to work somewhere. Another ueculiarity is that some two weeks or so after returning to Eureka from Lehi iu Februa y where she had been to unoirer thtt unit hrmiulifc naninah hor by O. A. Slade for damegee, Mrs. Hayes learned that the stock on the ranch at Pelican Point were left without with-out care and were starving. The husband hus-band of Mrs. Hayes, Harrys' stepfather, step-father, went down ad employed another an-other man and placed him in charge of the ranch. Nobody worried over the diappeararce of Harry. Hpyes. It Beems, in fact, that an attempt has been made to keep it quiet. A team, a wagon, a plow and all the provisions that were at the ranch are missing; however a pet saddle pony and saddle, a coat and" one shoe, the property of Andrew Johnson, ere left and it is known that he had no other coat with him. It is not thought that he would leave these if he went away on hie own accord in the cold month of February. The finding of these it is. more than any other one incident, that has led to the belief that all three men have been murdered and thrown into the lake, perhaps loaded into the wagon, driven out upon the ice and sunk. The theory is that the two men came upon the murderer, who, to hide his crime, killed them and disposed of them. The coronei'd jury last evening viewed the body of Harry Hayes carefully care-fully and it wa3 then placed in a coffin and removed to Benjamin for burial. It was badly decomposed nd the Stench it J exhaled was unbearable. un-bearable. The two b illet holes ran entirely en-tirely through the body, neither ball lodged in the body. The doctors say they both entered the front side of the body, the one on the light breast ranging right and coming out under the shoulder, the other lower and farther left coming out near the 6mall of the back. No eyidence was offered before the jury laBt evening. Officers went over from heie th b morning to prosecute the investigation. O. A. Slade with whom the Hajsea had trouble over the lai.d knows that suspicion points to him as being the murderer, and many there are who firmly belieye him to be. It is said that several of the witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the coroner's coron-er's jury will testify stroDgly against Slade to the effect that he has frequently fre-quently threatened the life of Harry Hayes. |