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Show LURED TO HIS DEATH IN SALT LAKE CITY. Salt Lake City, March 4. The body tf John C. Barnett, a palnte-. w is found today in a room In a uotorlous lodging house on Commercial street. The surrounding circumstances? indicate indi-cate that Barnett was lured to the room last night, robbed and then brutally bru-tally murdered, lie had evidently been beaten to death by some Lluut instrument that had cut his face nnd head so as to be almost unrecognizable. unrecogniza-ble. From all appearances he hnd been bound and gagged before luring been killed. The disordered condition cf tho room was evidence that he nad irad a strong defense of his life, b it persons per-sons sleeping .in adjoining roons declare de-clare they heard nothing except lend talking and laughing In the r mm. Barnett entered the room about midnight mid-night last night with two oth-sr men. one of whom had previously rented the room. Both these men have ills- i appeared. I |