Show CACHE GAGnE IN CANYON GANYON REVIVES MYSTERY Workmen Unearth Money Near Power Powe House at Spanish Fork PROPERTY WELL HIDDEN Valuables Believed to Have Been Taken F From Three Murdered Men in 1 1895 I r Republican Special Service Provo Sept 1 15 h G The 0 story tor of or a strange o and anel unexplained murder of years ago I ftc If brought back to tho time minds of or the time people hero here when time the laborers on the time work of o excavating the canal at al the power powel IH use ut uL Spanish Fork ForIe cre discovered a cave In which wilch was WI a considerable sum of oC money moncy and other property properly On February 17 1895 three young men one the step son of ot Harry H Hayes of Provo and un tho the others s the tho cou cousins pf Or Ito tho step son wore were conducting a a small email smal ranch at Pelican Point Point This day was the last on which the they were seen aleA alive e al 4 A few Cew hays days later latel their lifeless bodies were discovered cr washed UI up on tho ho shores shore's of or Utah lake hake into Ino which they hall hail been thrown after ael they had been murch murdered by b some unknown assassin Hayes was promptly arrested for Cor forthe the Limo murder It I was ns WI proven plo cn that ho had had trouble with his step son an and that the tho animosity between them thorn was yer very bitter There hee had a n short time time- before been legal lelal differences Involving involving ing the ranch on which the time young oung men lived H Thu motive was WM b believed o lc to Ic bo be bothe the acquiring of or the property In 1895 after a n sensational trial Hayes was waa convicted of murder in the first 1 first degree ald and after his appeal hind had been denied he lie was sentenced to death heath The rime rope was wal ordered and arrived ar nr- rl rived the tile scaffold was in plo progress ress ot of construction and amid the prisoner had prepared d to moot meat his end though protesting his Innocence I New Sheriff Finds Clew Xe In Iii the mc meantime meantime- nUmo a a new sheriff George orrs had been elected le tec and id anc while In conversation with Tom WIlliams Will Will- 1 lams iams now a Policeman at ut Spanish Fork came caine to believe that h he had l iu discovered a D new clew A thorough investigation of ot all al circumstances tho of at the h Innocence of ot the and amid upon unon his hla c representation to tho tim tho r p t f to lIaa o Y YA A n bo n m ui I r imig doubt remained ren n Whether er em 01 or OJ not miot 11 he was not eon concerned wUi the death o of the iho men If It not Hot ot a t lively at nt least el passively Time The h new net clew v which had bath been beun bc n given en n b by Williams to Storrs pointed painted to to toman toa a of oC W man maim In tho time employ t George Wright At this time was ti-as wa living Jiving 11 1 at IL it time the of or 1120 canyon at t Spanish Fork ForI near flour tho point where the time now new power power house Is holnE buIl jj built Tho Timo clew chew was VOl very taint faint but by b followIng fol- fol lowIng It I startling evidence against Wright right was discovered ered 1 Against alft as E Wright t. t Time The rie wagon belonging to tho the murdered mur mur- mur dered men ha hind had been sold by Wright to John Beckstead of ot Salt Sal LIe Lake Various Various Va Va- Va- Va rious cooking utensils and ranch ranch-Jm- jm S had been sold old to fo different people throughout hout the time surrounding count country IT by Wright and those were ivero count b. b also Identified as having ha been stolen admitted ad ad- from front tho time ranch Wrights Wright's wife ito that she knew something about aboul the tho property and pointed out to tho time rs tile the point where her hem husband from the Iho hind had shot eliot time thy team of or horses hore ranch lanch al although hough she sue strenuously d de denied di- di crime b beyond be be- nied an any ammy knowledge e of or the lie yond the theft of oC the tIme team and wagon waJon Between the time of at the time murder and amid ant the investigation instigated b by Storrs Wright had ton stolen some somo horses In and had been le released on on Je somo some business men of or ball bail given gl hy 13 1 Provo He had Imad at once unco Jumped his ball bali amid went to Freshwater Colo Cole bai By ny unc tho time lime into that time the sheriff had discovered his whereabouts and had hind one gone to arrest arre l him aim on the now new charge as well as tho the old Oll matter he lie had again mater u disappeared This tine time he had hind killed u a man anti and ane by b getting himself called calc u had as a I member of the time coroners coroner's Jury jUl secured enough time to make mako his hl es- es cape CalC after his exoneration b by this J lody body and aCor before the authorities had nad i awakened lk I A George Wright was several times country arrested arre through the time mining after this time hue but he lie could never noer be ater Identified c as tho time one wanted for the J escaped al although although ul- ul Pru o murder und and always alwa's though he lie Is believed cd bele to have been time the same man His Ills brother stated some ome enlisted in the theann years ago that Wright army ann at the th time of or tho the Spanish war Cuba or the thu an and was killed in either cither Philippines At any rate rte he has never ne cr been heard of since sinco 1898 At the time line of or tho tIme murder another Involved A neighbor of or orthe man was In manat at the dead ead men named Smile Slade had been involved c In litigation with the tho owners 0 o of tho time ranch lanch and had hind been successful ucc Cul before the courts but the reeling feeling had been beun very vel bitter r. r Slade was arrested ted but th discharged In a short hort time for 01 lack of at l e evidence ence Onu One theory advanced was that both Wright and Hayes were concerned Inthe in inthe Inthe laye the killing on the ho Idea that It I would have havo been practically Impo impossible for forone em one marm an to hn have accomplished the time deed Those that adopted adopt adopt- ed this theory theon tho thought that it was arranged arranged ar ar- receive c tho ho real ranged for Hayes to rel estate and amid Wright all ull 01 of the tho to personal including tho the cattle which property catle at tho ho time line that the murder was discovered die dis covered erod co ha had not been distIl distributed Another theor theory was wa that lint Wright waylaid nother the time men and shot them In col cold blood bloo or that hint that on being discovered in the tho act of or stealing he lie had ha shot them to cover his tracks TIme Tho mo most t charitable theory theO was that the men had first been leen murdered b by some somo saro one else and amid when Wright was wa passing parsing by he discovered time the state of or affairs and took tool advantage nd of or the time chance chanco to convert tho the property to his his' own ad ad- vantage At any an rule rate rte no rio one has line ever paid pale th the penalty of ot the time crime and the true facts will wi probably bo be clothed forever in mystery The Time cave cavo In which the find wa ivas made is J several feet underground and Continued sL on Pa c Two T rl i f t tr r J j i. i 1 r r. r CACHE IN CANYON REVIVES MYSTERY Continued from lugo lago One appears appeals to have havo been carefully clo closed cd to prevent discovery who owned 1 time the land hand at tho time timo of tho time murder was completely unaware of or orthe the he existence of or such a a. place until informed that the tho picks of pr the time laborers labor labor- ers had opened up the tho cleft with its contents o of ol buried treasure stolen from fromn rom tho the murdered ranchmen so many years ca cara ago o. It I is supposed that Wright right fright- fright ned b by tho the deed ec und and tIm tho suspicion ha had b begun gun to bo O pointed 1 at him lb concealed conceal the time loot log Ing ng to return for it It but ul hi his other troubles roubles and the fear leal of ot the law al- al ways od In his wn way ivay arid and the time gold Koltl was vas left to be unearthed by the tho labor- labor WB an 91 of more than a decade decaso latema later late a I r i fit i Y lf iLif T J J s. s |