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Show SEARCHING FOR THE? MURDERERS OF EUGENE ILLEK Bingham. Utah, April 16 Active search for the men who. Wednesday night, murdered Eugene Allen. Hie Highland Boy store clerk, was continued con-tinued all day today, with but little result. Careful descriptions of the two men have been given to Sheriff Andrew Smith, who is having circulars prepared for mailing to all points In I this section of the country. A clew that a man who was In Bingham near the scene of the murder mur-der a short time before the shots were j fired and who has since disappeared was given to the police yesterday and a search for him was instituted. Up to a late hour tonight it had been unavailing. un-availing. This man. only in a general way. answers to the description oi one of the bandits. John Raleigh, the fellow clerk of Allen, who was held up by one of the men while the other shot Allen, yesterday made two Inspection trips through all of the cabins of foreigners foreign-ers In Bingham in an effort to identify the Mexic an who Is believed to have been one of the pair. Raleigh, however, how-ever, was uuab'e to pick out anyone as resembling the holdup. All possibility of following a trail over the mountains has been eliminated elimi-nated by the heav rainstorm, and the only possible chance the officers have of catching the murderers, so the officers of-ficers say, Is that some clew heretofore hereto-fore undiscovered will be found. Investigation In the Highland Boy-store Boy-store today revealed the fact that some canned goodi had been disturbea but whether this was done by the robbers or by someone else was not ascertained. In some iiuarters today it was sug gested that the Mexican who was one of the pair of holdups might have . been Ixipe.. the much-wanted bandit, but the police scoff at the story, saving sav-ing that the descriptions do not tally in the least. Deputy Sheriff Richard Bddington I and Bert Seager camp to Bingham this morning accompanied by a man who thought that he recognized one of the bandits from thr descriptions published yesterday. The deputies, however, would not say whether or not th man had been of any assist ance to them. Salt Lake. April 17 Mrs. William S haaf, who was struc k by the horse of one of the men responding to the alarm following the shooting of Alien, Al-ien, is resting easy at her home in this city. Examination at her home yesterday Indicated that while she had been badly bruised, she had seemingly suffered no internal injury. |