Show R 1 GREAT I T SALT LAKE YIELDS UP CLUE GLUE RANCHER FINDS FAREWELL LETTER BELIEVED WRITTEN BY MURDERER Supposed Suicide Sought Throughout Country As Brutal Slayer of Girl Nearly Twenty v- v Years Ago i Evansville Ind Seventeen Seventeen years cars ol ot during which minions of the law have haTe carried on a relentless nationwide nationwide na na- na search for tor Guy Prescott who I disappeared from this city one day after Miss Gray pretty book hook keeper for tor the It II land find nd D furniture storo here was found In a dying conditions con con- In the vault of ot the store was broken Tuesday when out of ot the past like Uke a n voice from tho the shadows camo came camoU tx U message purportedly written by Prescott The note nott scribbled on la n i leaf from fromn n It notebook was up by the Great Salt lake of ot Utah mali is Js old age ond If It written by Prescott Provides the closing chapter to n U tragedy which has already cost three lives end ond remains behind hs us is one of the most gruesome crimes ever committed committed commit commit- ted In Indiana The note was picked picked pick pick- ed up at Promontory Point Utah by F. F 3 M. M Frary foreman of ot tho the Lonerock Lonerock Lone Lone- rock ranch It contained the followIng following follow tollow ing message I uI have decided to end It all Goodbye everybody Guy Prescott Frary directions on the opposite side dispatched the note to the authorities here and relatives re re- ro- ro lathes of ot Prescott believe it is his writing The tragedy of t seventeen years ago occurred on March 17 1907 1007 when a search was started for tor Miss Gary when she failed to return to her home after the store was closed Detectives found her locked in the vault of ot the store In a horribly mutilated mutt muti Jated condition For several days she hovered between life lIfo and death whIle detectives es strove e to obtain a statement state t ment merit from her At last she rallied and whispered Guy came and fell b hack back ck on the pillow dead her lips sealed sealed seal seal- ed forever fore Prescott an employee of ot the place was arrested and released within afew a afew afew few hours He lie disappeared Immediately immediately Im im- im mediately and when local officers were unable to locate him the search was extended over the entire nation William Pinkerton head of tho the Pink erton agency assumed personal control control con con- of the investigation and search Prescott's infant daughter died a few months month after his disappearance and his girl wife followed in less than a year Frary In his letter to the authorities author lUes hero declared the flask in which the note was found sound had been in the water several years ears The note was almost on account of or uge Miss Gra Gray the murdered girl was the daughter of the Rev William Gray Evansville's leading minister ot ut that time The Rev Hev Mr Gray Ofay died of a broken heart following the murder of his daughter Police Pollee atthe at atthe atthe the time ascertained the safe of ot the etore had been robbed in addition to the assault of ot Miss Gray |