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Show BRIGHTON Dili ! SHOOTING GIRL TELLS POLICE i Pistol From Which Shot Was Fired Found Where Man Hid It POLICE GET REWARD Description of Accomplice Sent Out to Many States and Cities SAIT LAKE Feb. 10. Tho local police received word today from San-taquln. San-taquln. I'tah. that a man answering the description of Frank MllU-r. want-! want-! cd in connection with the slaying of 1 Charles A Faus, wholesale druggist. was being held there. Miller is al-j al-j loged to have Joined Gilbert L. Bright-I Bright-I ton in entering the Faus home. Btlgh-I Btlgh-I ton in a reported confession to ihe police. Is said to have stated that It was Miller who fired the fatal shot Angelina Waoaster, maid at the Faus home, has confessed, according to the police that she framed the "Job" whereby the two men could rob the home In another statement she Is reported to have told the police that she did not realise that there-would be any shooting. County Attorney Arthur Moreton announced an-nounced that ho would Issue a Joint complaint, charging Brighton, Miller and Miss Wacaster with first degree murder. SALT LAKE. Feb. 10 That Gilbert Gil-bert Lang Brighton, who confessed to the police that ho was a participant partici-pant in the murder of Charles A. Faus Inst Friday evening, is the man who fired the fatal shot, was the positive declaration made Thursday night by Angellne Wacaster. former Faus maid, who is being held for complicity In tho crime. Tho girl made the declaration to detectives. Nearly JE000 in reward money Is to be paid out to the detectives and others who brought about the arrest of the girl and the street car conductor. con-ductor. When first arrested ihe girl said she thought that Brighton did the shooting, but hesitated in making a definite statement. After going care-full care-full over the events, however, she remembered, she said, that Brighton and not his partner had worn the army overcoat at the rear door of the home before entering and that he had done tho talking She further fur-ther suld that she knew his voice and that she was sure he also had done the bilking and the shooting in the home. DAMAGING EVIDENCE. Other damaging eldenco tending to fasten the pilnclpal part of the crime on Brighton was the finding J a .38 calibro reolver which he admits ad-mits la the one with which Mr. Fans was killed. This gun was fuund hidden hid-den carefully away under the rubbiMi of a woodhouse at the old home of Brighton! father. 841 East South Temple ntreet The gun was shown to Brighton and Chief of Police Joseph E Burbldgo questioned hlri again regarding the crime Brighton admitted that the gun was the one used, but held to his original state ment that the other fellow did the shooting. THOUGHT INOOMPIiETl Brighton is the actual murder r. according to tho opinion of tho mo i-bers i-bers of the police department, an. not merely an accomplice. His one hope now seems to be in ihe fasti ing of the- principal part of the crime on the other two concerned. In I. s confession relative to planning the iuulm-i ue o.i ,-u .in ui me, oiarr.e on tho Wai :ister girl The actual shooting he blames on the missing i on i pan Ion Despite his claims, however, ana those of tho girl as to who actually did the shooting, all may be held infl the police nay all three probably will be charged with first degree murder. No charges have been prefcrrod OS vet. Brighton still is held for sate keeping In th? state prison and the girl Is carefully guarded In the City Jail It is felt that no violence Will be attempted toward ihe girl on ic-i-oiint of her age, but with tho feeling feel-ing relative to the murder null at high pitch, it has been thought beal to take no chances with Brighton MILLFK WAS SOLDI I lit. Determined efforts to find Franl Miller former soldier, who, Brighton nays, was his occompllce In the murder mur-der ol Mr Faus, have been taken up. Telegi a phl da i riptlona ol him ha o been sent all over the country, an I these are being followed by detailed descriptive cln tilara The records at Fort Douglas nhnw that Milk-r was a BOldler there for a short time and was dlscharrd about a year ago as unfit for military mili-tary service About two weeks he-fore he-fore the murder he ' nl to th pO (Continued on Page Two.) I BRIGHTON DID SHOOTING GIRL TELLS POLICE K On tinned from Page I.) and tried to reenllst. but was ro- Jooted ( 01IPLI4 1 DEW RIBRD. Miller ll described a follows Twenty-one yearn of age w ith a thin face, narrow at the mouth and wiihj a drooping lower lip He has nar- row teeth, black hair, swarthy complexion, com-plexion, and Is loose-Jointed and overgrown for his oge. He Is undj-pendable. undj-pendable. erratic In disposition, and appears to bo underweight for his height lie is nearly 6 feet tall. Dr J A Phlppn, guardian of the Warnster girl, accompanied by Y Marks, attorney of Tooele, came to Salt Iake last night and was In conference con-ference with the girl and with 'h police. Mr. Faus who was shot In hi home at 066 Baal South Temple stre.'t last Friday ovenln. was burled with IfMOnlC honors In Mount Olive cemetery cem-etery yesterday afternoon The interment in-terment was private, following sorv- ; ea held in tho ICaaonlo temple, onlj the members of a family a few friends and members of the fraternity frater-nity being prcHcnt. The main auditorium of the Masonic Ma-sonic tempi wus crowded with th" who gathered at tho public funer.i' services J(e had been prominent eft! u buslncMH man and as a uncful cltl-f-n generally and those who attended attend-ed hln funeral were from all walks of life and from practically all l -nominations. oernor Muhey wag there and so also were Mayor Nes-len. Nes-len. the secretary of state, stnte treasurer, auditor and attorney general, gen-eral, and the) city commissioner? Practically every organisation and every line of business In Salt Iako was represented The servleen were under the direction of Elmer D JoneH. WOnhlpfUl master of Argerla lodge No. 3. Free and Aerepted M.i-Hons, M.i-Hons, of which Mr. Kaus had boen a n ember Tho lodge also conduce 1 the services at tho grave. |