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Show SAXON'S SLAVER . il F0I9 SALT LAKE, Nov. 12. Efforts of Sheriff John S. Corlcss and deputies to apprehend the man who stabbed to death Henry Saxton in Knudsen's grove, Big Cottonwood, Sunday night had proved fruitless up to a late hour last night. Shoriff Corless and several deputies were out all night, scouring the country. coun-try. They found that Hyrum Bateman, suspected of having done the stabbing In a fit of jealous rage, had returned home with his automobile shortly after the fatal attack upon Saxton, but had not been seen since. Saxton bled to death at tho home of j his sweetheart, Lydia Schelker, nearj tho grovo where the stabbing occurred. I Examination of the body after death revealed the fact that he was not onlyi cut badly upon. both armB, but that he! was stabbed Beveral times In the body. the wounds giving evidence that the! knifo used had been twisted after' being thrust home. pieces of flesh actually act-ually being cut out. Tho girl explained to tho officers that tho man who committed the murder mur-der had first tried to run Saxton down with an automobile and, driving past, later returned to attack him In the grovo with a knife. She expressed to the officers her belief as to the Identity Iden-tity of tho assailant, who, she ald, had threatened to shoot anyone who paid hor' any attention. She said that she was paralyzed with fear when the attack at-tack occurred, so much so that she was unable to call for help Saxton walked with hor from the grove to her home near by after he was stabbed. The investigating in-vestigating officers found the vicinity of the attack. as well as the place where the man died at the premises of the young woman's home, soaked with blood. Deputy sheriffs continued tho search of the vicinity throughout yesterday and last night without finding a trace of tho assailant and without locating Bateman. oo |