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Show I BROKEN HOME . AND TRAGEDY "Murder will out."' Shakespeare uttered ut-tered that prediction. Yesterday in Salt Lake the latest tragedy was cleared of mystery by two arrests in the Faus murder and a double confession. confes-sion. Looking back, the actions of leading citizens of Salt Lake in demanding a larger police force and offering to help patrol the city presents evidence of hysteria. The disclosures in the mur ner prove that an officer on every block could not have prevented the crime. The maid of the homo and a bireet car conductor planned the robbery, rob-bery, and the killing was not premeditated, premed-itated, but came as a result of nervous excitement of a man who was not a hardened, self-composed holdup. The maid of the Faus home was An-geline An-geline Wacaster, 16 years old, who had served the family two years. The history of the girl Is a recital of tragedy. trag-edy. Angellne was born in American Fork. When 5 years of age, her father fath-er was killed in a drunken brawl. A year later the mother died and the child was placed in the care of her j grandmother Then she commenced to slip and at 14 was committed to the state Industrial school at Ogden. The story of nearly every wayward girl is that of a broken home and ncg lect. At the time in Angellne Wacas-ter's Wacas-ter's career when she should have been receiving the finer impressions of life, her father was coming home drunk, and creating in the mind of the ' I hild a wrong idea of the world and a m misunderstanding of her relation to I society. Then, with the death of tho I mother, and the bad beginning, the lit-I lit-I tic girl began to drift, as does wreck-I wreck-I nge on the surface of the old ocean, and finally the crash came which de I i tro ed her. I Countless thousands have gone the f wa of Angcline Wacaster and each j recurrinc tragedy of Ihe kind in a re minder that a neglected home in American Fork may bring a shock to I lne whole of Utah. w Though sometimes we seem far re- :noved from the influence of abnor-I abnor-I ! mal homes, in reality we uto very close. -on |