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Show Transient Identity i In Hanging Incident Unsolved j Police officers of Iron County have found no clue to date as to . the identity of a transient who . was found dead from hanging in a tree near the highway between Summit and Parowan last Fri- ; day. The body of the man, appar-enly appar-enly that of a Mexican, was found hanging from a tree not far from the highway, and Deputy De-puty Sheriff Charles Wells, who Investigated, stated that the hanging was undoubtedly the act of the man who had been camping camp-ing In that area. The man had apparently hanged himself, using us-ing a bandana handkerchief. "It appeared," the deputy sheriff said, "that the man had stood on a rock, placed the bandana around his neck and over a limb of the tree and then stepped from thp rock." There were indications in-dications that the man had been desperate from hunger. Investigation of government files in Washington, and employ, ment records of all major companies, com-panies, revealed no Information as to the transient's identity, Wells said, Indicating that the man was a Mexican National, in this country Illegally. |