Show BASIN KILLING BAtRES SPIFF SHE R Itt WEEKS WEEK'S SEARCH REVEALS MUTILATED MUTILATED MU MU- BODY IN WA WATERS ERS OF UINTAH RIVER Gun And Ax Are Used To Take Life of Farmer Crime Parallels f Murder Done By Indian Youths Fort l Frank rank Frank Stiffen 36 Uinta rancher believed to be he the thc victim vic vie victim tim of murderers as brutal as those who set upon Thomas Rhodes last September was found dead in tho the Uintah river rl near here with two bullet bullet bul bul- let wounds in his head and two gashes gash gash- es on his face thought to have been heen Inflicted with an ax The body was found In ht the shallow shallow low water near the bank of at tho the r river riverby riverby h by Sheriff Lafe Late Richardson of oC Uinta county after n a thorough search of ot the dead mans man's farm tarm lasting six nays had failed faile to reveal any clue as to his whereabouts The search was instigated instigated in in- stig by Mrs George Hackins rancher neighbor of Stiffen who ne- ne came alarmed b by his sudden s lisaI disappearance disappearance J and l notified the tho sheriff sherif The motive for tor the cr crimo an and identity identity iden iden- tit of ot the time supposed perpetrators are shrouded In mystery according to Sheriff Richardson He lie admitted h hire here re that the circumstances surrounding surround surround- ing the death of ot Stiffen led to the behot belief be he hot lief that time the man had been murdered u and ld that that the crime had be been n committed commit commit- t ted d by more than one person StorIes Stories Stories Stor Stor- ies told by other members of the starching searching party also conclude that the crime was committed oy ry more Ulan than one a assassin sassin i They said that Stiffen was too large a man to have flare been carried from the house to the by br one manThe manThe man I The distance from the to o the riverbank where whore the tho bod body o of Stiffen had been c cast cst st b by his murderers murder murder- ers is feet Ho lIe is believed to have been attacked attached in time the house murdered and then carried to the river anti and tossed tossed tossed toss toss- ed in Stiffen was I last st seen alive spin spin- tang Hug wood near his by br Mrs Hackins lackins She went to his home and found found him missing She said she noticed signs of of a It struggle gle in the rouse house louse which aroused her suspicions and amid I she notified Sheriff Richardson |