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Show hind the bars in the City jail. No charge has yet been made against Carlson but it is understood under-stood a perliminary hearing will be made on Wednesday next. Funeral services for the dead man were held from the O'Don-nell O'Don-nell Funeral Chapel on Wednesday Wednes-day evening. Interment' was made in the Bingham cemetery. Through tha efforts of some of his friends sufficient funds were collected to permit him a Christian Chris-tian burial. GUS CALSON ADMITS CRIME Gus Carlson, 31 years of age, a native of Finland and who has been employed on a farm in Murray for some time admitted to Chief of Police Frank Thompson Thomp-son on Friday morning last that he was the man who had fatally fatal-ly stabbed Albert Miller in the heart the night before. After taking the Chief to the scene where the stabbing occurred he was taken to Salt Lake County jail on Friday afternoon. - An investigation of the case by Deputy County Attorney Ray S. McCarty brought a statement from the prisoner that he had been drinking heavily and as he was coming down the street a man came out of an alley and induced him to come into the alley which he did. In the alley al-ley Carlson admits he was robbed rob-bed of some money he had in his pocket, after which he ran down the street and returned to the alley with an open pocket knife and seeing the man he believed be-lieved to be the man who robbed rob-bed him stabbed him over the heart. According to the files of the County jail Miller has a criminal record, and is well-known well-known by the officers there. Frank Thompson, Bingham's Chief of Police with his force of men were soon on Carson's trail after the crime was committed in a a short time had him be- George Duffy, District manager mana-ger of the Security Benefit Association As-sociation of Topeka, Kansas nas been busy in. camp the past week trying to organize a lodge here. The Wasatch Club of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove are extending invitations invita-tions to the people of 'Bingham to come to their city on Wednesday Wed-nesday next, June the 20th to celebrate Strawberry Day. The committee in charge offer to furnish as many strawerries to eat as you wish and say tne strawberries are more plentiful plenti-ful this year than last and are in a better condition than they have been for many years. They are also providing many attractions attrac-tions including a wild west show, wrestling bouts, also a State league baseball game between be-tween Provo and Salt Lake. H. N. Standish, Past Grand Chancellor of the Knights oi Pythia attended the state convention con-vention of that order at Salt Lake City this week. Jonn Bressen attended as a representative repre-sentative of the local lodge, a large number of members of the Fraternal Order ol Eagles from Aerie No. 67 of Salt Lake City visited the locai lodge here on Monday evening last and was busy making arrangements ar-rangements for the State Convention Con-vention of Eagles which will be held here on Monday next, June 18th. |