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Show MURDERER 0F A WOMAN IS I CAUGHT Lake City, Utah, Feb 13 r-ks of secret work on the part ' of Chief of Police B. P. Grant yeste-- 1 day resulted in the arroet in Pot ate! lo "i J C ("Jack") Meyers, who is su8peeted of being implicated In the murder of Ethel Williams in Bin. ham, December 10, 11)12. Meyers was arrested early yester day morning In the room of a woman In the re stricted district of Pocatello I by Policeman George Smith of that I city. Detective William Zeese of this! rty obtained trace of Meyers last Tuesday and went to Pocatello, work-nig work-nig with the police department there in making the arrest. Meyers was told he was wanted In Salt Lake City but was given no spe iri- information of the charge which may be- made ;iainst him Ho came , to Salt Lake without the formality of! a requisition, arriving here handcuffed to Detectiv Zeese early last evening The diamond earrings and flnpr-r, rings worn by the Williams woman ' I when she was murdered and which ' were supposed to have been torn from her ears and fingers by her murderers wrere not found on Movers, ndr on the person or In the room of his compan Ion at the time of his arrest The po lice department, however, Is of the opinion that the Jewelry' will be located locat-ed In this city today. Had Quiet Tip. Chkf Grant was exceedingly reluc- tant last night in giving any information informa-tion whatever concerning the arrpst "We have been working unceasiua; ly on this case, and only those Immediately Imme-diately concerned knew what uas going go-ing on I feol certain that a quiet tip given me some time ago however, has resulted in an Important arrest. Until I have had a talk with Detective Zeese and with Meyers 1 can make no further fur-ther statement.' Meyers, on his trip to this ciu. is I said to have talked freely with Detec-i Detec-i live Zeese on everv subject he was questioned about excepting the murder mur-der itself or his whereabouts at that time The murder of th Williams woman has heen a police mystery, although at first it appeared lo be of easy solution solu-tion Ethel Williams was 2S years of age and had lived in Bingham about six years at the time of her death Early in th evening of December 10 two men were seen lo enter her room Shorth afterward her neighbors heard the three laughing and talking. A graphophone was playing popular airs Machine Gave Alarm. Il was the constant ujjiirring of the metal point of the machine which finally fi-nally caused a woman in the next room to wonder why the instrument was not shut off Then it was noted that the voices had ceased. The woman became alarmed and notified no-tified others She called her friend but there was no response Walking around the outside of the room she peered into a window and saw the Williams woman lying upon a bed, her far discolored An electric light was shining brightlv The door was then broken down and It was found that she had been strangled to death. Fin Bjer prim.- showed upon her throat He- diamond earrings had been lorn from the lobes of her ears and her rings from her fingers. Her trunk was broken open and rifled Every thin of value had heti taken except $f0 which was in a purse. It Is believed that the playing of the Kraphophone drowned her screams, if Indeed she had opportunity to utter any |