Show TUEY TOLD STORY COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIALS MAKE INVESTIGATION John Gale and Wife of Uintah Claimed Hartwell to Be Murderer of Seymour Clark County Count and city officials are rc still sUll on the tho th alert for the tho Identification and and cap true of or the murderer of o tho the late lato dOs dep deputy uty sheriff Seymour L Clark and dur during durIng ing the HIP th past two weeks certain tang tangible tan ible ihie facts if sufficiently corroborated have boon given out to warrant the tho arrest of tho the guilty guilt party part Tho The clue has lias been followed with alacrity by the and at al times they tho were much encouraged In tho pursuit even to lo the tho point of charges and making malting arrests but a careful C reul and thoroughly scrutinizing investigation has dis disclosed disclosed closed the fact that tho the clue was wa based upon misleading representations and ane the tile officers are as much in tho dark today regarding the tile atrocious crime as when whon it was committed A week ago yesterday John Gale of or Uintah told a representative ot this paper a story that fully disclosed the identity of the murderer of or Deputy Sheriff Clark and at the time lime ho lie stat stated st stated t ted ed that ho had advised the officers of the tho facts but hut that they the officers o 1 cers had hail not credited his statements The story he be told branded James Hartwell who was found in an unconscious con condition condition near Roy Ro a fow few days das after the tho killing of Clark as the murderer In Iii I his bibs stor stor lie he stated that ho met Hart Hartwell Hartwell well weB at his Gales home in tho the month I of oC October 1908 IOOS when Hartwell asked for something to cat eat and offered in payment a breastpin i this occurred only a few rew days das alter after a burg burglary lary larv on lower street in Ogden had bad been reported Hartwell gave his full name annie to Mrs Gale Galo and atthe at the tho time lime questioned her hOl as ac to the force of officers that were in the town When advised that there were no officers there except a justice of the peace and a 3 constable he said saidI I 1 guess a fellow could turn a trick here bore and not bo caught coughL Mr Gale stated that lint he afterwards met Hartwell Hartsell in disguise near he was wearing a red wig but removed It when he saw that he Gale recognized recognized recognized him and anti passed the matter off offin offIn offin in a Jocular way war Mr 11 Gale stated that the lie next time tImo he lie saw Hartwell was on the Ule night of or December 27 the night of the Clark tragedy He Ho said that Hartwell made arrangements with Ith him to haul a load of shoes from Uintah to a n point up the canyon cannon and ane that it tt was understood that he ho Gale was to keep mum AB As Galo Gale told the story stor Hartwell boarded a freight train that night at about 5 for forthe forthe forthe the cast east The rhe description he gave of Hart Hartwell ell was that on that day dy he ho wore woren a n double breasted coat of a dark color colora a cap and a n light colored pair of pants he was about 5 feet 9 Inches in height light complexion and a it l Roman nose This description quite completely an answered answered answered that lint given by Deputy Shot Sheriff Iff Murphy of the man mail who killed Clark Claih Cia Mr Mi Gale slated stated further urther that Hartwell a few days before tho the murder purchased ed oil a Browning DrownIng automatic revolver from a man by b tho the name of Dye at Echo it is believed that Clark was shot by b a Browning Drowning gun of calibre and that Kendall who took the night operator to the tile Uintah station that night gave savo the tho same description of I tho the man seen standing at the pile pHo of shoe boxes near the wagon road close to the railroad track where Clark was killed hilled The Italian and his wife who ho are supposed to have bavo met the fleeing murderer gave gaO practically the same description of oC the man Mr Mi Gale further stated slated that lint he and his wife met Hartwell In Ogden the tho day after arLel the lie murder and that he lie Hart Hartwell well recognized them and anti that a few fow days after when Hartwell Har well was lying in iii inan inan an unconscious condition at the Og Ogden Ogden den hospital he ho Gale and his wife the lie place and recognized Hart Hait Hartwell well as the man he had previously met This story being told lold to the officers by b Gale and the they from rom the beginning being inclined to lo discredit it Il they proceeded to make a H thorough hives Investigation investigation Mr 11 Gale and his wife wee closely questioned regarding the tho iden Idea identity Identity Ut they the gave gao of Hartwell as the mur murderer murderer derer a number of times by b the officers officers cers core assisted by b shrewd detectives Mr Jr Gale and anti his liis wife were given a most scathing examination until they thoy finally broke down and acknowledged ed that what they had said regarding r Hartwell was a fabrication pure and simple concocted for fol the purpose of getting the reward offered by b the gov governor governor governor of the state stale and d the tho railroad company The Tho last examination of Mr r Gales regarding tho the affair was concluded yesterday at the tho police poUce station by IY Detective Hart and Officers Robert Burk and Robert Chambers The officers state that they no fully Cull convinced that lint the story told by hy Mr Gale and his wife Is found foundation foundation atlon and they the say that the Investigation along the line given gien by Gale Galo will not be he continued It will bo be remembered that James Hartwell was as found near Roy afew l few dos days after the thc murder of Deputy Sher Shor Sheriff iff Clark in an unconscious condition occasioned by b injuries received in an unaccountable way HIt His skull was ama fractured and it was thought In the beginning that ho he could not possibly vivo O the he injury He lie was WaR taken tolie to the lie hospital and under skilled medical treatment was finally restored to lo con consciousness and practically cured of his hh injuries I He however I showed how d signs of insanity and was examined before a n medical board and anti Judge Howell Hovell as asto asto asto to his bis mental condition Ho lie was ad adjudged adjudged judged Insano and was WIlS as committed rl to tolie tho lie state mental hospital where whore he Is Isnow Isnow isnow now being held |