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Show AFTER SEVEN YEARS MURDERERS OF A SALT LAKE MISER BEHIND THE BARS. An Almoot Forgotten Crime Brought to Light by the Betrayal by Hln Wife of One of the Murderert. It Is bo'lfM'd thftt u murder iry-tory of sovi'ii years' standliiK Is about to be rlrarel up lu Fait lake City, threo nr'ii Oeurce W. Mitncy, John Hire and i A')l Hunter having been lodged In Jail, ihrrgcil with the murdor, on thn nl -lit of Folrnnrv T5. 181". of l"ro I Bupt'er. a inlseilv uiiib I'lln-miH.'er. who vns fniril tinii'lml to death In n cabin in Rait I nl.o. In a dl nu 1 rcnfessloti made heforo S o it Kn e y a Ccu"ty AtWirnr-y ! VXt ne't. Vt'iity states that on tho ulyhl In ;u''Uom Iih nud Ichn Rirvaml ' A'" 'i-it i went to Huetlur's cabin to t'i : ." i- cf i ol' lug tin' oil nrn-i of JLCO In r.orny which t'-oy uuiler-stuc! uuiler-stuc! ' j had C'!-";rJ Mi the ln-us": tlmt lie (Minrj) tin c ' Cue lr on tli liol and hell hlni down wl-ifii VAv stuffed lai In hh thruut t' stlllu hit ciIim fin- he'p, iitnl that n'tor ptoceQd-ing ptoceQd-ing thus far thoy were fiiglitcnoil by somo ono knocking on tho door, when tho tlneo would-ho rohbora mado their escnpo, leaving their fctlm nlono In his death struggles and without ovon looking for tho money which lod thorn to commit tho crime. Tho man Rluncy was never suspected suspect-ed of any connection with tho murder of DiiPtlor until very iccently, when ho let fall somo slight allusion to It In conversation with his wife, who reported re-ported what ho had said to the olllccrs. Muncy, tho man who makc.i tho confession, Is DO years old and a Virginian Vir-ginian by birth, and Is said to come from n good rnmlly. When a young man ho emigrated io Illinois, and at tho breaking out of tho civil war enlisted en-listed lu tho Forty-olghth Illinois ros-iinent. ros-iinent. At tho close of the wnr ho was dlsi'hnrKod with tho rank of sergeant, anil at once rc-enllstcd in the rogulnr winy, senlng threo years. Following this seivico ho drifted to the fnr west and has lived in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming Wyo-ming and Montana. John Rice, ono of tho trio behind tho bars, wus arrested on suspicion at the tlmo of tho murdor, but was released from lack of dlroct tNidcncc. Soon aftor his discharge John Rico went to Tooolo county, where ho engaged en-gaged In tho sheep business, and was later married, having now a wlfo nnd sewiral ehlliljon, and with his departure depar-ture tho murdor of Iltiotlcr wns practically prac-tically dropped as an impenetrable mystery. ilotii Rico nnd Hunter deny nil ktiowlcdgo of tho cilme with which thoy are rhiirgctl, but It Is claimed that Rlre hns lot fall aevcml lemnrks which It will be haul for him to satisfactorily satis-factorily oMilnln. It Is said thnt when h" was rcuiid nt Oiantsvlllo and Informed In-formed that SheiinKirqry wanted to seo hlni, ho exclaimed; "What In does thy sheriff vnntwlth me; It must bo about that Muctlef case." The statement Is n n If that Muncy anil his wife f o-Mipntly quarreled and that he had threatened to hav" her i sent to the insane asylum. She, In a splilt of leveiiKO, (rave the ollleers a clue which LI to Muncy's arrest. |
