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Show Trial Date Set In Royal Hunt Murder Case Vae Monroe Fenley. 17-year-old ex-CCC enrollee, who allegedly confessed con-fessed to the slaying of Royal Hunt, 39-year-old Washington County rancher, at his home near Central early Monday evening, November 24, was bound over to the Fifth Judicial District Court, without bond, to face first degree murder charges on January 6. District Judge Will L. Hoyt, sitting sit-ting as committing magistral, conducted the preliminary hearing of the charges against the former San Pedro, California, youth, bound him over to the higher court, and committed him to the custody of Washington County Sheriff Antone B. Prince, pending the trial dale. Ellis J. Pickett, district attorney, immediately filed the first degree murder information In the district court. Reuben J. Shay, Cedar City attorney, was appointed by the state to handle the defense. Young Fenley seemed unimpressed unimpress-ed during the hearing, and did not take the witness stand in his own behalf. Fenley is reported to have made a full confession, stating that he " wanted money and I knew of no other way to get it." When he was captured the following day, ti few miles from the scene of the crime, he had $21.50 in his possession, posses-sion, which he admitted he had re-' re-' moved from Hunt's pocket after shooting him. According to his confession, officers of-ficers reported, Fenley shot Hunt, for whom he had been working, through a window, then went J.i and robbed him. While Fenley was saddling a horse in the corral In preparation for a get-away, Hunt revived and notified Mrs. Arthur Bracken, telephone, operator at Central, that he had been shot and asked for help. The youth then returned re-turned to the ranch house, shot the wounded rancher three more times, bound the body and dragged It to the doorway where he fastened fasten-ed the rope to the rear end of a pickup truck, planning, he confessed, to drag the body 200 or 300 miles. Lights of an approaching automobile, automo-bile, however, frightened him and he ran into the hills. The rancher's bullet-riddled boJy was discovered a few minutes later by Arthur Bracken and three other oth-er men from Central who Immediately Immedi-ately notified the Washington county sheriff's office. A possee was formed and a search for the missing youth was instigated, the fugitive being picked up early the next day and taken to the Washington Wash-ington county Jail In St. George. |