Show Special Mountain Republican InterMountain Inter Inter- I U Utah ta h S State tate N News Service J II I IMAY MAY BE MURDER CASE Identification of Colton Skeleton Skeleton Skeleton ton Leads to Further In Investigation Investigation Investigation In- In by Officers Provo April Ap 1 30 hut That tho tIme man whose skeleton was wa found by hy a sheepherder sheep sheep- herder near Cotton Colton Colon a few days cus cu's age ag was murdered Is a bele belief belie now hold holdby holdby by several of those thoNe who have been connected with tho tue Investigation of oC thc affair fraI Sheriff Harmon has hW returned from rom Collon Colon with wih much Information In connection with wilh the time matter matel Tim The h skeleton has been proved to tobe t hi be be that of or an Austrian named Anthon whose passport shows he hc left lef A Austria for COI America I 10 9 1 1903 Ills His Ils papers show shOts that IK ht 1 was born In 1879 1870 that he was was short of stature eyed brown an and ful full faced H Ho lie applied for admission to citizen citizen- hlll at Pittsburg Kan in iii July J 1 1901 This Information was wa secured from his uis Is trunk which had hal been hel held mu al at field since February ly C G 1 OI at Colton Colon were secured a Interpreters 1 by Sheriff Harmon The he skeleton I itself supple supplied It little in information In- In formation n as the bones had bo boi beem bell i about by hr c coyotes one bone having been found foun more mOle than ban half tulle mile from most mORl of the others From fragments of the clothing a 5 billa bill bill a baggage c check a lodge button uton Et etc were secured and these served t ti II Identify the tho 1 skeleton lBs Ills grip containing con Comm taming clothing tob tobacco cCO food etc was found foun about a tulle mile mie from thi the skeleton The Thc theory that the tio man was WW va murdered murdered mur mur- dered Is strengthened b by the fact that thai two or three Austrians who reached Colton Coton on lh the same train that thai brought blought said sit nothing of ot his Some Semite however that time man maim perished of exposure In hum 11 time mountains Thc They explain that ar arriving al- al ai riving aC after I time the train trin for 01 Scofield hi Ith destination lurid had hal left lef Colton he lie probably ably undertook to cross the moan moun t lins ls to 1 on foot foot Im lost l his way and mind died at havi ha 1 time the names of oC the hue Austrians who vImo nallS were on tIme the train with him and are arc endeavoring en en- n- n to secure further evidence in the lie ca case If I the tIme mans man's relatives can not be lo- lo ctt through h time jho Kan Kansas a authorities Sheriff iff Harmon lannell will wi communicate with consular wih representatives l tives NI in lit Austria The skeleton was burled at al Colon Collon |