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Show STATION AGENT IS MURDERED S. E. Turner, at Devil's Slide, Beaten and Shot to Death and His Office Looted by Unknown Cut-throats Three Men Are Arrested at Bountiful and Are Held as Suspects. The Union Pacific station at Devil's Slide, 32 miles east of Ogdcn, was the cceno of a murder and robbery some time last night. The dead body of 9. K. Turner, the stal.on agent, was iound In the office, at 3 o'clock this morning, there being evidence of a denperate (struggle. The agent's bead had been battered with a heavy In-fftrument, In-fftrument, presumably the butt end of a gun, and the place bad been looted. Turner was about 22 years of age and had been mornej not more than a month. Falling to return home at his regular hour last night, a search was Instituted by his wife, which ended in tho startling discovery of bii mutilated body where it had fallen fal-len in the battle with the robbers. Word was immediately sent to Ogden Og-den and surrounding country and a thorough search of all trains is now being mudo for the perpetrators of the cr.'me. Signs of a deadly struggle, In which the agent had battled for his life, were in evidence in the room, but no trace of the murderers has been found. Tho Union Pacific sUtlon at Devil s Slide Is located about three-quarters of n mile from tho little lllage which 6urround9 the cement works. The little lit-tle railway building Is locAted. between be-tween the track and the Weber river and onlv about one hundred feet from the base of the igrcat mountain slide from which tha village derives Its name Mountain loom up darkly Just across tho tracks In. front 1-f Ithe station and behind It. Turner had be-on stationed at Devil's Dev-il's Slldo only eince July 1. About a month, ago he was married to a sweetheart, whom he had wooed in the east, prior to, his coming to this sUte. The couple were living in tho tillage and it was tho anxiety of the wife at the- continued absence of her husband that 1?I to the discovery of tho body at such an early hour, as tbe station would not bae been opened otherwise until about 7 o'clock this morning Efforts of the wife to communicate com-municate with her husband by telephone tele-phone aroused her suaplolon that something was wrong and a party of men went to the station at her request. re-quest. Lying on the floor In a pool of blood, with his head and face mutilated by the blows of his nssasslns. was found tho body of the ticket agent He bad been shot through the body and then, us If to make more certain cer-tain of his death, had been beaten over the head with the butts of the robbers' rob-bers' guns. The disarranged furniture furni-ture In the room and the appearance of tho agent's clothing told their mute story of the fight which the victim hnd made for his life. The safe was open and had been rifled of its contents, Tho pockets of the dead man had beeji ransacked and his personal belonging1 taken. A gold watch, tho numbor of which v.as 1076571, was also mi?lng from the corpse. The Ogden police and tbe Sheriff's force were notifled'of tho crime ami a trip was made to the scene of the murder this morning in the sheriff's automobile. tt Is l-taied by local railroad men that the amount of loot secured by the thieves could not be large, as It Is the custom of the agent at Devil's Slide to express the receipts of the day to Omaha on the enstbound passenger, pas-senger, which rasses the station nt about ft o'clock In the evening. Tho crime was moat likely committed about 9:30 last night. Three men were arrested at Bountiful Bounti-ful thU morning under susplclot) of having been Implicated In the murder. The men came Into Bountiful In a box car and, not being able to make a satisfactory explanation of their trael during the past few hcutrs. were arrested and will be brought to Og don this evening. Sheriff Wilson and other officers early this morning followed three i'Hn into the Jungles and It was supposed at the time that they succeedel In making a truln out of the city toward Bountiful. Tho fellows hid in the Jungles. It Is also said that these men came down Weber canyon during last nUht. |