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Show ASSASSHfS-M. HAS BEEN HOST Theodore, Utah, April 23. Posses searching for the assassin who murdered mur-dered Arthur C. Marsh In his own homo Thursday nteht have returned from their long, but futile, chase along the Duchesne river and the crime 1? as much of a- mystery as ever Footprints Foot-prints which at first r.e-"""1 t- '"""I a promising clew- have led to nothing tangible, and while the tongue u- uo-piclon uo-piclon gives voice to many rumors the officers do not know the guilty person Marsh was sitting in his home on the north side of tho Duchesne river a quarter of a mile from tho center of town and was playing solitaire. Two neighbors. Charles Cummlngs, Oliver Montgomery. Irs- Mrsh.. Miss Myrtle Myr-tle Marsh, a grown daughter, and a 5-year-old son, Robert Duchesne Marsh, were In the Marsh homo, while just outside the door were two younger daughters of the Marsh family fam-ily wero playing with other children. At the card table was Oliver Montgomery Mont-gomery with the little Marsh boy on his knee and opposite was Maroh. The others in the house were chatting chat-ting while the card players wero each absorbed in his own game of solitaire. soli-taire. A glass pane had been broken out of the west window of the cabin and suddenlv a shot was fired through this hole The bullet passed through the entire part of Marsh's chest and lodged. In his left arm. "I'm shot," gosped Marsh .as he turned and beckoned to his wife and then fell to the floor. These were his last words, for In four minutes he was dead The echo of the fatal shot had hardly hard-ly died away before the neighbors, rushing out of the Marsh home, ran to Theodore and gave the alarm Constable Con-stable George Odekirk quickly raised a posse of twenty men and posted them on roads, bridges and foot bridges. This guard was maintained until davlight, hut no trace of tho assassin as-sassin was found. The guards detain ed three sheepmen, but they were soon Identified by Forest Ranger Thomas E. Woolsteuhuline and proved prov-ed alibis. Minute search revealed two sets of footprints. One trail began at the bank of the river and led to within fifteen feet of the Marsh home, giving rise to the theory that the assassin may have come and gone by boat. These steps Indicated that while the person who made them approached the Marsh home slowly he ran as he returned. The other footprints began be-gan at the well-traveled path to the bridge and after continuing some distance toward the Marsh home they returned to the bridge and were lost In the many tracks found there. It ls generally believed, however, that the assassin escaped on horseback. horse-back. About fifteen minutes Intervened Interven-ed between tho lime of the shooting and the starting of the posse and this would have enabled a swift horse to bear Its rider considerable distance from tho scene of the crime. |
