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Show j MORE ARRESTS IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake, Jan. 15. Robert Erick-son Erick-son and W. J Williams were arrested arrest-ed yesterday as suspects in the Morrison Mor-rison murder case, and a vigorous hunt was Instietuted for Otto Apple qui6t. who mysteriously disappeared soon after the murders were Inaugurated. Inau-gurated. Erlekson and Applcqui-n were I friends of Joseph Hill or Hill6trom. the wounded man who was arrested early yesterday morning, charged with the double murder Williams was previously arrested by the police, but released. He was rearrested soon after the arrest of the wounded man The officers are now convinced that there were three and possibly four accomplice? in the murders at the Morrison store, though but two were inside the store and did the shooting. shoot-ing. The circumstantial evidence against Erlekson and Williams Is not nearly so strong as that against Hillstrom and Applequist. but the officers are holding them pending a thorough investigation in-vestigation of the stories they tell , Neither has yet been able to prove an alibi. Hillstrom Talks. Hillstrom yesterday broke the si lence that he has maintained since the shooting, and in a sullen maa-ner maa-ner answered the questions put to him In. a rigid examination made by Acting Act-ing Sheriff Atha Williams. He still insisted that he was shot during a quarrel over a woman, but stubbornly refused to give any names or the details of the story. He refused to toll at what address the shooting occurred. oc-curred. His answers to all of the questions were unsatisfactory He admitted having had a 38 automatic pistol. He said he threw It away while Tiding In the automobile of Dr. A A. Bird from the residence of Dr F. M. McHugh to the Esllus Developments of the day wove more tightly the chain of circumstantial evidence about Hillstrom. During the afternoon V Cram, a resident of the neighborhood, where the killing wa3 done, called at the county jail and identified Hillstrom as a man who called at the Morrison store Saturday Satur-day afternoon and conversed with J G. Morrison, who was murdered later la-ter that day. Dr A. A. Bird, who took Hillstrom to the Esllus home, where the wounded wound-ed man found refuge until his arrest early yesterday morning, recalled that when his automobile stopped in front of the Esllus home Hillstrom whistled twice. His whistle was of a peculiar scund, evidently a prearranged signal to someone within the house. When the doctor and the wounded man entered the house they were re-reived re-reived by members of the Esilus family. Later it was learned that Applequist had been in the Esilus home, but he was nowhere in sight when the doctor entered. Less than an hour after Hillstrom's arrival Applequist Ap-plequist left the house and has not been heard from since. Applequist and Hillstrom had been friends for some months at least. They are said to have been working in Park City together. Some weeks ago Applequist came to the Esilus home in Murray with Hillstrom The latter had been stopping at the Eli6us place intermittently for about seven months He told those in the Esilus household that Applequist was a friend with whom he had worked in Park City. After that Applequist was a frequent visitor at the Esilus home On last Friday Applequist and Hillstrom Hill-strom went to the Esllus home. The two slept on a folding cot In one of the rooms of the house They remained re-mained there all day Saturday and were still there when the Esllus boys left for Salt Lake Saturday evening When the Esilus boys returned after the theater, Applequist was in bed. He had reached home, it developed shortly before 1 o'clock. Where he had been the Esllus family professed not to know They said he must have gone out early In the evening, but none saw him leave the house. Soon after the Esilus boys returned from Salt Lake Hillstrom was brought in wounded. Within an hour Applequist dressed and left the house, after having talked quietly with Hillstrom. Hill-strom. Members of the EbUus family had known Hillstrom for a long time, two of the boys having met him in San Pedro some years ago. He came to the home of the Esilus family for the first time on June 23 of last year. He said he had been working as a machinist in Park City. Since that time he has worked very little, and has spent a great deal of his time at the Esilus home. Second Man Taken. The investigation of the murder case at the Esllus home yesterday by Acting Sheriff Atha Williams. Deputy Sheriff Riley Beckstead, Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff David Guest and Chief of Police Fred Peters of Murray resulted in the arrest of Robert Erlekson, a relative rela-tive of the Esilus family. The officers offic-ers believed that the description of Erlekson corresponded with that of a man seen near the Morrison store immediately after the murders They do not believe that Erlekson was one of the two who fired the shots that killed J. G. Morrison and his son. but thought it possible that he might have been the lookout. The officers found that the occupants occu-pants of the Esllus home were John Esilus, the aged father of the Esilus boys, Ed, Vic and John Esilus, his sons; Mrs. Olson, a daughter, who is the housekeeper at the home, and a Scandinavian and unable to speak any English. The other occupants of the house individually told the stories of their acquaintance with Hillstrom and with apparent reluctance of the presence of Applequist in their house on Friday and Saturday. The stories of the different members of the family fam-ily differ in some points which the officers believe important. To the officers Ed Esilus told this story: "On Saturday evening my two brothers and the two Erlekson boys left early to go to the Utah theater They returned home about 1 30 o'clock. Hillstrom and Applequist were here when the boys left for the show. They probably left soon afterward, after-ward, but I did not Bee them go Applequist Ap-plequist was asleep on the cot which he and Hillstrom had occupied when the latter arrived. Soon after the boys came home the doctor brought Hillstrom home. ".We got Appleq.ulBt out of bed and put Hillstrom In his bed. Hillstrom asked for Applequist as soon as he got in the house and the two talked together for a few minutes. I didn't hear what they said. A little later Applequist said he was going to start cut to look for work. He told us that Hillstrom had got shot in a row over a woman and suggested that we say nothing about it. He then went out of the house and I haven't seen him since." Suspicion Raised. As the description of Robert Erick-BOD Erick-BOD was similar to that of one of the men whom Miss Xellie Mahan, 800 J South West Temple street, saw crossing cross-ing the street immediately after the shots were heard suspicion was raised rais-ed She said two men ran rapidly across the street and another followed follow-ed with his hands clasped over his breast One of the men in front wore a light suit. She heard the man behind be-hind cry out "Hold on. Bob, I'm shot. ' The fact that Erickson was known as "Bob" Erickson and that he wore a light suit of clothes was regarded as a circumstance that justified taking Erickson Into custody. nn |