Garland Globe | 1909-03-13 | Page 2 | Most Brutal Murder

MOST BRUTAL MURDER. Salt Lake Workman Strangled and Beaten to Death by Thugs. v Salt Lako City. John Q. Harnett, "0 years old, n painter, wns brutally murdered and then robbed Fonio time petweon 12:30 o'clock Thursday morning morn-ing and noon Thursday In a lodging l.ouso on Commercial street, and rhortly after tho crlmo wns dlscov-ired dlscov-ired Hitch Meyers, 10 years old, a line-logged man, was arrosted on sub-I'lclon, sub-I'lclon, as on his clothing and crutch wnn fresh blood, Bnrnott, while under the Intluenco of liquor, was enticed to Ihe lodging house, which Is conceded by tho po-ilco po-ilco to bo tho lowest dlvo In tho city, and at tho hands of two or three men, tho exnet number not being known, vat, strangled and beaten to death In ho most, horrinlo mnnner Imaginable. HIb faco was beaten to a Jolly and nil over the body aro largo cuts nnd hrulsos. Tho weapon used by tho Mayer Is not. known.