Show IDAHOAN ADMITS BRUTAL MURDER DETECTIVE UNRAVELS SECRET OF KILLING OF THOMAS CAVANAUGH CAVA CAVA- I. I ON I IDAHO RANCH Suspect Admits That He Shot Rancher Through Back of the Head and Hid the Body in Attic of Murdered Mant Cabin Salt I Lake l e Cit City Time rhe The mystery surrounding stir sur rounding the disappearance on 2 12 last of Thomas Ca nom his ranch at nt Welser reiser Idaho a m mystery ster search earch by which i l occasioned a wide officers and detectives In iii Salt SnIt Lake Lako and surrounding districts was dIssipated dissipated Saturday when Luke S. S Ma May a Salt SnIt Lal Lake e detective succeeded in securing securing se se- se- se curing a n confession from the thie lips o oDan of Dan Ruth now in the county count Jail a at Welser yeiser Idaho about to be he charged with murder io IJ the time first degree legree according ac HC- cor cording to a story In Iii the Salt SuIt Lake JAnIce Tribune une The Time body of Cavanaugh Was as discovered ered with the tIme skull crushed and a gunshot gun gun- shot wound through the tIme head hend about two miles from the time Cavanaugh ranch on Sunday Sunda May 13 Previous to that tha date rumors were afloat that he lie hind had gone to Salt Lake in answer to a n letter from a former sweetheart An inquest was held at Weiser Welser on Ma May 17 which determined that death was th thaI result resul of a gunshot wound through the time headIn head heat In his hits alleged confession Sa Saturday before Mr Ir May Ia District Attorney Donart Donart Donart Don Don- art an and 1 Sheriff W. W U. U Walker Talker of Weiser Weiser Wei Wet ser Ruth Ruthm a admitted 1 that he lie shot Cava Cava- through the time back of the head wrapped the body up with sacks s. s put a canvas canvas over o It and amid placed it in the time attic of Cavanaugh's cabin After the time killing he hie wrote a note to James Elliott his law brother askIng asking ask ask- ing him him to look hook after the time stock on the time Cavanaugh CU ranch Later Ruth Huth returned returned re re- ie- ie turned to Weiser Welser and Elliott asked aske 1 him where the blood In the cabin came caine from Ruth told him It was is-as from some ome beef which he had killed and put upstairs Detective e May Ia tested this blood and discovered that it was human human hu hu- man mann bloo blood 1 This was one of ot the time principal prin prin- cipal item of evidence tending to connect connect connect con con- Ruth with the murder Thomas Cavanaugh at the time time of his murder was 34 years ems of or age He lIe was a Yale gra graduate a fraternity man and had hind come conic west ivest to mme maxe Ids his for for- tune Three days s 's before his imis m he lie was offered for onus his ranch |