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Show SALT LAKE HAS REIGN OF CRIME Governor Spry Offers Reward For Apprehension of Morrison Mor-rison Murderers. Salt Lake, Jan. 12 Governor William Wil-liam Spry announced last rvenlnp ihat he would issue a proclamation today offering a reward of $500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the two holdups who murdered John G. Morrison and his son, John A. Morrison, in the Morrison Morri-son grocery store at 778 South West Tomple street, Saturday night That a murderous gang of holdup is making this city its rendezvous is the belief of Chief of Police Grant a nd other police officers of Salt Lake. While members of the police and a number of deputy sheriffs were hunUns for the murderers of John G Morrison and his son, John A. Morrison, Morri-son, who were killed in their grocery store at 778 South West Temple street, another holdup, in which the 'victim was shot by one of two men, occurred on Eighth South near Sixth West street. The victim was Oran Anderson, 19 years of age, a laborer, who was held up by two men, shot through the left arm and robbed of $11 60. Marks of blood noticed on a handkerchief hand-kerchief taken from W. J Williams, who was arrested early Sunday morn ing in connection with the Morrison murder, further convince the police that Williams had a part in the murders, murd-ers, When Williams was searched Sunday morning at the police station the marks of blood passed observation, observa-tion, but in examining William's possessions pos-sessions again last night the blood marks were noticed. Williams was arrested when he was found walking by himself near First West street and Tenth South shortly after the murder had been committed. He said he roomed at the Salvation Army rooming house in Orpheum avenue and he could give no reason for being in the southwest part of the city at 11.30 o'clock at night. Inquiry made at the Salvation Armj rooming house yesterdaj revealed the fact that Williams was not known there at all. Williams is being held in the city jail. He refused to make any statements state-ments to the officers yesterday The search by the police for Frank Z. Wilson still continues Wilson was recently an Inmate of the state prison pris-on and has been arrested frequently on burglary charges After an absence ab-sence from Salt Lake of several weeks he was knows to have returned a few days ago The police believe he may know something of the murders. The description of them en who held Anderson up does not tally with the description of the men who murdered murd-ered Morrison and his son The police po-lice are still of the belief that one of the men who murdered Morrison is perhaps senouslj wounded and safely id hidin.u within the city limits. Bandits are Masked. nil ) son, according to his story, was held up on Eighth South street near Sixth West He said two masked mask-ed men of the pnnif height approach-I approach-I i d him. ordering him to put up his bands When he refused to immediately immedi-ately obey their command, he said. th) tired at him at close range One bullet pierced his left arm directly below the elbow. Anderson said $11.60 was taken from him, after which the men fled. They ran east to Fifth West street, he snid. after which he was unable to trace them Andnrson walked to the emergencj ! hospital at the polite station, arriving there about forty-five minutes after he had been shot The wound was I dressed by Dr. H B. Spracue and ; Irom the size of the hole In Ander son's arm It was thought the lead was from a 3.S-caIiber shell. When ' asked why he had not reported the j holdup to the police sooner. Anderson Ander-son said ho was unable to get to a phone and that he had not a cent left after being robbed It was thought Anderson might possibly have been the man wounded by John A. Morrison in the battle in Morrison's grocery store Saturday night This theory was dispelled, however, after an examination of Anderson An-derson s wound revealed that it had been but reeenth inflicted- After the police officers were satisfied Anderson An-derson would not be needed in connection con-nection with the Morrison murder he was released. Anderson is a labor er. He said he roomed and boarded with the family of Jens Jensen at ill West Eighth South street. The search which was carried on throughout the city and county ot Salt Lake yesterday by more than forty officers of the police department and several representatives of thf sheriff s office failed to reveal a substantial sub-stantial clew to the whereabouts of the murderers of John G. and John A. Morrison. Bloody tracks which were discovered late Saturday night and which-were traced from in front of the Morrison grocery store at 77S South West Temple street to a ditch near the corner of Twelfth South and First West street and near the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railroad tracks furnished the only clew upon which the officers could work. The tracks led from the Morrison grocery store north on West Temple street to the Mitchell Van & Storage eompanv at 27?. South West Tempie street From there they were traced west to First West street and thence south to Twelfth South street. From Twelfth South street the tracks led across a small ditch to the railroad tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande. The police believed yesterday morning morn-ing from fresh boot marks in the side of the ditch that the wounded per son had bathed his wounds with water wa-ter from the ditch. It is also believed be-lieved by the police that the murderers mur-derers have been unable to get very far away. They entertain the thought that the men are posslbh in hiding in the neighborhood of Twelfth South and First West streets and that perhaps per-haps they forced some resident ot the neighborhood to gie them refuge. ref-uge. Traces of Camp. Near the ditch at Twelfth Sou'h street, which the murderers are sup- posed to have crossed were fouiui ashes, smouldering from a recent fire The police made a thorough search of the railroad yards, or warehouses and other buildings in the vlClnily or Twelfth South street where it was thought the murderers might have possibly sought a biding place. Early yesterday morning a complete search was made in Murray and Midale for the murderers Men from the sher Iff'fl offices are guarding all outside points in an effort to check the bandits ban-dits if they should attempt to leave the county. Believe Wound Serious. i From the blood left on the trail Which went north on West Temple street to Third South street, thence west to First West and thence south to Twelfth South, the police think the murderer was seriously wounded and that it will be only a matter of a short time till he will be forced to give himself up When seen at her home, S77 South First West street, last niKht, Mrs Morrison was bearing up remarkably under the strain of her terrible and sudden bereavement Former Sher iff Jesse Harmon of Utah county, a friend of the family, arrived yesterday yester-day from Provo to help the stricken family, and will assist them and the police in any way he can to run down the murderers. "I cannot understand why any man could have such a crudge against my husband as to cause him to do that, said Mrs. Morrison in commenting upon the traged Mrs Morrison said that she knew of no one of whom her husband had spoken as an enemy who might be dangerous She recalled the holdups in which her husband had been, but said ber husband had never considered himself seriouslv endangered en-dangered for his part in prolactin; himself. Roy Recalls Tragedy Merlim Randolph Morrison, the only living witness to the shooting, the 11-year-old son of Mrs. Morrison, vividly recalled the scenes which have burned themselves into his mind to remain for a lifetime Occasionu ilj as he spoke he would ruh his hands over" his swollen eyes, as If to blot out l he memory of those awful moments mo-ments that took from him a father and a brother. For a Tribune reporter report-er ho took a photograph of the interior interi-or of his father s store and described the shooting The boy said: "The men rushed in the front door and ran to a point about opposite the scales on the left hand counter, there (as he pointed to the picture) Father had just gone behind the glass showcases on the right side through the aisle, there at the middle of the store Brother was back there, at the end of the counter on the right hand side and I waB in the back of the store at that door you see there. "Of course when the men rushed in, we all turned to see w'ho they were. Without giving my father a moment's warning the first one rushed rush-ed to a point about opposite the scales, there, and yelled: "We've got ou now ' The shots followed It was all so sudden that it is hard to remember "As father fell my brother turned around to the shelf by the Icebox which Is at the end of the left-hand counter. There was a revolver there and he picked it up. He certainly was brave for he ran up to where the scales are and shot I think the bullet hit one man. They wheeled and fired at mj brother three limes I He fell right there by the scales back of the counter "The men realized I guess, what a I noise they had made, for they didn't stop, but rushed right out again 1 i saw them turn south toward the ! corner and other people saw them 1 run into the alley running north and ! south between Eighth and Ninth j South in the block just west of West j Temple. "I am sure that the men didn't mean to rob the store, because one ol them said as he rushed in: 'Wove got you now!' And then he fired It must have been revenge I stepped behind some shelves down there in the back of the store when they began be-gan shooting to protect myself, but I kept mv head out far enough to s?e It all " The plucky lad was silent for a time then, and his recital of the tragic eveuts cast a momentary pall of silence si-lence over the house. "Clearly the men knew Morrison well," said former Sheriff Harmon "The fact that they didn't hesitate a moment or say a word other than 'We've got you now." would indicate that they had known their victim." John (I Morrison was a member of the local police force a little more than nine months. He joined the force January 22, 190G, and resigned to take active charge of the grocery business October 31 1906. He was known by his friends for his thrift. It is said he leaves an estate valued close to $20 000. This includes, according ac-cording to the report, the property on which h's residence is built, and other real estate In the city. |
