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Show BLOODY CRUTCH 1Y PROVE GUILT Cripple Stands in Shadow of ths Gallows for Murder Committed for a Few Cents. Web of Circumstantial Evidence De Ing Wove Around Alleged Mur-! dcrer of Salt Lake Painter Who Was Deaten and Strangled to Death, Salt Lako City. A bloody crutch may prove tho Important clue which will bring to the gallows the murderer ot John C. Burnett, tho painter who' was beaten nnd strangled to death In a rooming house in this city, the crlmn evidently having been committed with tho purposo of robbery, the murderer, however, securing less than S5 after committing ono of the most revolting re-volting crimes In the history of tho city. In Hugh Meyers, the ono-logged man, arrested a few hours after tho discovery of tho mutilated body ot John C. Barnett, tho police bollevo thoy havo the real murderer of tho un-fortunato un-fortunato painter nnd papor hanger who was lured to his death for a few dollars. Gradually a web of clrcumstnntlnl evidence Is being woven nround Meyers, Mey-ers, and ns the meshes aro being drawn tighter tiero seems little likelihood like-lihood of tho escape of Meyers from the direct accusation of being tho actual murderer, or at least an accomplice. accom-plice. Tho most Importance piece or ovl-denco ovl-denco so far obtained, and which so strongly Incriminates Moycrs, Is- his crutch. It dovcloped Saturday that ihe crutch exactly fits Into the wounds upon tho head and hands of the murdered man and fits so perfectly perfect-ly as to leave no room for ,d6ubt In the minds of tho pollco that the crutch was tho Instrument used In tho death-dealing blows. In addition, several other Important Import-ant bits of evldenco, nil tending to fasten tho crime on Meyers, woro secured. In tho running down of tho evldenco the detectives proved conclusively con-clusively that tho story told by Movers Mov-ers In connection with tho Incidents of the night of tho murder was fatso in many respects, that ho had betrayed be-trayed his own falsehoods In telling conflicting stories, equally Important Import-ant was tho result of an analysis made by Stato Chemist Herman Harms, which revealed fresh blood ptalns on Moyors' shoe, crutch, hnt nnd handkorchlof. Tho shirt worn by tho murderer, and from which tho bloodstained cuffs and sleeves had boon torn off, was nlBo found In a toilet room In tho Mamblno saloon, nnd the officers nro iiosltlvo that Ihe shirt belonged to Moyers. |
