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Show f raw BOY IS FOHD I m m mm I NEAR CAPITOL V SALT LAKE, April 2. Whether B Raymond Johnson, 17-year-old son of H A. J. Johnson, a teamster residing at H 374 I street, -who was found dead in H the south fork of Dry canyon about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon with a H bullet wound immediately above his heart, was murdered, accidentally shot or committed suicide, is a mystery that go far has baffled the efforts of the entire force of Chief of Detec- tivos Joseph C. Sharp. All these I theories, it seems, aro weakened by a I circumstance that the detectives find fk difficult to explain. There were no powder marks on young Johnson's body or clothes, and the wound was clean cut, indicating that the shot was fired from a distance. dis-tance. This, according to the detectives, detec-tives, impairs the suicide theory. On the other hand, Johnson's sweater sweat-er was pulled almost up to his chin and his undershirt unbuttoned and parted, leaving his breast exposed, when the body was found, lying on its back In the snow just off the trail leading up the canyon, by George Car-tor Car-tor and Carl Reynolds, special officers of the Salt Lake street department, and Walter Brown, an employee of the Orpheum theater, who were in the vicinity looking at some land they contemplated purchasing Those circumstances, cir-cumstances, the officers say, point to sulcldo. Body Found Under Snow. When Carter, Reynolds and Brown discovered tho body, the wound was covered under a small pile of snow that had been heaped on tho dead man's breast, and his face also was partly covored with snow. A .3S caliber cali-ber Colt array rovolver containing two loaded and one empty shell inder the hammer was found by Brown about twelve feet from the body, and a second empty shell was found in the snow about three feet from the gun. Some distance down the trail Johnson's John-son's horse was found hitched to a post. The snow and brush had been trampled down within a wide radius of the body. Carter swung himself upon the horse and rode into the city to notify the police, who sent a patrol wagon to the canyon for the body, which was taken to the mortuary chamber in the city jail. The young man's parents were notified, and his father recognized recog-nized the body and also Identified tho revolver as his. Went Coyote Hunting. "Raymond left the house about noon and said he was going to shoot some coyotes," continued the elder Johnson. "Wo waited with dinner for him for a long time, but when ho did not come it never occurred to me that he had had any trouble with his gun, though I had repeatedly warned him against taking the gun out with him." Young Brown was seen in tho com-pany com-pany of three other young men at the gun club near the mouth of tho canyon can-yon by D. F. Shepherd, 1159 East Sec ond South street, early in tho afternoon, after-noon, when air. Shepherd spoke to the boy, whom he had known for some time, on |