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Show oo BDDV OF MURDERED Ml F0UI I J011 RIVER Salt Lake, Jan. 21. With skull crushed and part of his brains beaten beat-en out by blows from a hammer and neckyoke, the body of John Lynch, 30 years of age, a farm hand employed employ-ed at the dairy of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Krupp, Twelfth South street and Redwood Red-wood road, was found at 9 o'clock yesterday morning by Mrs. Krupp. Official Of-ficial Investigation was made by the county attorney's and sheriff's office. Both brutality and mystery characterize char-acterize the murder of Lynch and tho officials conducting the investigation are baffled to find a motive for the crime or a chain of circumstances that directs suspicion toward any known person. Made Home With Family. Lynch, who was a native of Austral-la, Austral-la, had been employed at the Krupp dairy for nearly a year. He made his home with the Krupp family, sleeping in an attic bedroom reached by stairs from the kitchen. It was his duty to start from the dairy at about 7:30 o'clock each night to hitch up a team and deliver a load of milk to the wholesale station at Tenth South and Tenth East streets. From thpre he went to various uptown establishments es-tablishments and collected swill, re: turning to the dairy usually about 2 o clock in the morning. Wednesday night Lynch left the dairy with his load of milk about the usual time. When he arrived home with his load of slops is not known. When they arose yesterday morning Mrs. Krupp and her brother, David Sherkin, one of the owners of the dairy, found a pool of blood in the yard. It had soaked into the snow. Also a trail of blood leading from the barn, 300 feet from the house, westward, passing the house, extending extend-ing nn wosf fn. nVinuf n mr in tho high bank of the Jordan river. Woman Finds Body. Lying face downward in the river was the body of Lynch. Mrs. Krupp Immediately notified the sheriff's office of-fice and came into town. She, with Justice of the Peace L. C. Mariger, Deputy Sheriff C. C. Carstensen, Dr. Hardio Lynch, Harold M. Stephens, arslstant county attorney, and Deputy Sheriff Richardson went back to the dairy, where a thorough investigation was made. Descent of the bank of the river, which is twenty-five feet high at that point was made by means of ladders and the body hoisted by means of ropes. Investigation disclosed that the head had been crushed by an instrument instru-ment apparently both blunt and sharp. An ordinary carpenter's hammer, used about the house and which had been seen in the granary at the rear end of the house the afternoon before, be-fore, was found concealed under the house. It was covered with blood stains and also with what appeared to be brain tissue. In the yard, near I the wagon, was a neckyoke, also !: bloodstained, on the tires of the wag- j- on were numerous marks of blood. f Trail of Blood Seen. r The trail of blood was faint near the barn, but at a point near tho l house a pool of blood had soaked, into I the snow, and then the blood could be I I traced along tracks of two or more 1 persons to where the body had been , thrown over the high bank and Into & the river. J- The investigating officers learned that Lynch was a man of reticent and quiet disposition, who seldom went t any place other than necessary to perform his duties. Ho received a t 1 salary of but $15 per month and his f, I board and room for his labors at the E dairy. 1 |