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Show ! I HELD UPIIN 1 1 OWN HOME I I Salt Lake City, Jan. 23. W. S. Fer- I rls, an Insurance man residing nt 1072 I Hast First South street had the ills- ngrecablo exporlenco of being held up B ln llls own llom0 8hriI" aftor 9 o'- m! clock laEt n,ght' lult th0 ',hol(1 "P" I fl' wis all a mistake. A few minutes after 9 o'clock neigh- bora saw a man In a front room of the V Ferris homo hurrldly empty a trunk. I Tho man had a black slouch hat on I his head and it was pulled down over 1 his forehead. Tho police were notified I by telephone that robbers were In the I Ferris homo nnd Detcctlvo George Cloveland and Patrolmen Armstrong I and Griffin hurried to the place tn the police automobile. While Arm-I Arm-I strong and Griffin guarded the bouse Cleveland quietly entered and went to the room where "tho "man" was at H work. "' I "Throw up your hands and bo quicK fl about It," commanded Cloveland aa B he pointed a revolver at tho supposed B robber. Tho latter quickly Compiled B with the order and explanations fol- B lowed, Clovclnnd quickly recognized B Mr. Ferris and lowering the revolver H said he guessed ho had mado a mis- B take. Mr. Ferris said he was packing fl a trunk preparatory to a business trip B to Montana nnd that ho put on nn fl old hat to shado his eyes. IS WANTED FOJLMURDER POLICE TRAIL MAN BELIEVED TO BE THE SLAYER Latest Developments In Groff Murder Mystery Give Officers Strong Circumstantial Cir-cumstantial .Evidence Suspect Threatened to Kill Woman. Salt Lake, Jan. 2:!. "Wanted for tlm murder o Mrs. Marela S. Grot', on January 20, 1912, William Schmidt, a German, between 30 and 31 years of age, C feet 7 Inches In height, wolghs 1G0 pounds, heavy black "hair, parts In the middle, squlnty oyes, ' smooth, round, full face, rather good looking',,, , This is an extract from one of !00 circulars issued by the chief df police yesterday and mailed to all Important cities nnd railroad Junctions In tho west. j An entirely unforeseen development in tho caso of the killing of Marc hi S. Groff, a widow, who was strangled nt her homo, 222 Kast Second South street. Saturday night, enmo about yesterday, placing at nnught all former for-mer theories of the killing hold by the police, and seriously involving William Schmidt, an eccentric char actor, who came to Salt Lako from Ogden on January 11. Reward Is Offered. Mayor Samuel C. Park yesterday afternoon authorized 11. F. Grant, chief of police to offer n reward of $200. for the arrest and conviction of Schmidt. It Is' alleged by tho police that at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night Schmidt nnd Mrs. Groff left the Fritz cafe, 211 South Stato street, together and that this was tho last time tho woman was seen until her body was discovered by John Lornln Hose, a young man who rontcd a room In tho Groff house. F. Hoffman, a waiter at tho Fritz cafe, says that Schmidt mado the statement to him that he would get oven with Mrs. Groff for an alleged wrong, If ho had to kill her. A card bearing tho name of "Wll-Imm "Wll-Imm Schmidt" was found in the ump-ty ump-ty purso of Mrs. Groff yesterday by J W. Groff, son of the dead woman. |