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Show SKELETON MAY j BE THAT OF j OGDEN MAN I Is the skeleton found near Lowe I station on thp Western Pacific that j of John McGinnis. a blacksmith. J known in Offden bv a number of peo- pie and a member of the local lodg-! l of Knights of ColumbtlB? jl rircumstances seem to point tha' Way, and H. B. Duckworth of Sail Lake, president of the Standard Brass1 Ji foundry, who went to Tooele yeater- j I day to view the remahiH, declares. that there was some chance that the! dead man was his friend John Mc- ! j Ginuls, who had been working for the 1 tah Construction company In Neva-1 I da. He partially identified the re- I mains by the fillings in the teeth and H the shape of the head L J, Healy, the local secretary of 1 the Knights of Columbus, has heard J nothing from McGinnis since January I 15. On that date J I McDonald a I friend of McOinnis c-ame In from Ne-1 1 ada and paid dues for himself and i I McGinnis The address of McGinnis on the lodge books Is given as Shaffer. Nev which Is on Ihe Hue of the West' i ern Pacific McGiunlB carries an Insurance In-surance policy with the lodge William S O'Brien, manager of the Postal Telegraph, was personally acquainted ac-quainted with McGinnis. bin has not heard fro m him since he was working at Garfield The shape of the dead man's skull is long and narrow. and Mr O'Brien declares that t he head ot McGinnis was of that shape Mi Glnnls owns property in Ogden, Tooele and Sioux City. The skeleton was found last Saturday Sat-urday near Lowe on the Western Pacific with s fractured skull The evidence seems to point out murder, with robbery as the Incentive, as all clothes had been stripped from the body to prevent Identification The bones had been picked clean by coyotes coy-otes and rats Dr L A Me Bride of Tooele is making mak-ing careful description of the fillings fill-ings and bridge work of the teeih as the dental work offers the only means of ideutificaf ion. All fillings were found in ihe upper jaw. the lower teeth bearing no evidences of dental work. |