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Show BELIEVES MOTHER WAS MURDERED Salt Lake, Dec. 10. That Mis. H. V.. Williams, the aged woman whose body was found In her home, 60- 'last Second South street. Tuesday, was murdeied. is the belief of her son. A. J. Williams, of Lake Point, who ib here conducting an investigation ThQ body was lying in a room adjoining ad-joining the kitchen, and the interior of the house was blackened with ?moke from a pile of charred papers rnd magazines in the kitchen. Mr. Williams has learned that his mother, on December drew money from her savings account in the Dos -ret National bank, and is at a losr to know what became of it. The ..mount was not stated by Mr Williams, Wil-liams, vho last night conferred with George Cleveland and Carl Carsten-Ben, Carsten-Ben, city detectives, who investigated the woman's death the day the body was found A storekeeper on East Second South street related to Mr. Williams ii circumstance which mav develop a clew to foul play It was to the ef-fect ef-fect tbat a btrange young man entered en-tered the store with a $5 bill, saying Mrs. Williams wished it changed. This was last Friday The storekeeper did not have the change to spare, and the young man went out. hut soon returned re-turned and made a purchase amount Ing to 30 cents, receiving the change. The storekeeper also said that earlier in the same day .Mrs. Williams had entered the store and exhibited currency cur-rency and bank checks and that he advised her against showing her money mon-ey in public, I M. rill,.mo will lnmnn,l nil I autopsy for the purpose of determining determin-ing whether death was due to suffo I I ntion from smoke or other causes. If the autopsy shows that thn woman I was dead before the house became ' filled with smoke the theory that she was murdered will be gr atlj strengthened. The body had been I repared for shipment to Lake Point yesterday, when Mr. Williams came into possession of information indicating indicat-ing foul play. He will confer today with H S. Harper, acting coroner. |