| Show BODY folina IN WELL NEVADA MINING MAN BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED FOR SMALL SUM father mother and son arrested Ar retted on an suspicion of having Corn committed witted one of the mot most brutal crime in history of wet west nevada the grand jury has been investigating the mysterious death of charles todd a mining man whose body waa as found in a veil rell neur the home of julius weir sr at bristol twenty rat alica les from here on june 7 last julius weir sr bs wife mrs airs kate weir and son julius weir jr were placed under arrest upon the don clon that they had murdered todd and then deposited t the body in the well to cover up the crime at the preliminary hearing bearing julius weir sr and his wife were uise barged but th eon son was held to the brand grand jury evi dence having been introduced to show that the latter and todd had had trou brou ble it was also proved at the preliminary that todd had when last seen alive but when taken from the well only a few dollars in change were found on his cloth clothing lag codde body was exhumed exhume d on fri day and it was found that the skull was fractured on the left side andl eating that he hau been struck with ome some blunt instrument the weirs have told sel several veral conflicting stories and ane officers believe they are in possession of evidence to fasten the crime upon the them the weirs lived at an out butof odthe the way place off from the main traveled roads |
