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Show a3(Q) 1 m E ' STI 1 ST 1 1S E MPT f ' SHERIJT E0LD3 FACT IMPORTANT ':r SUter Assert! Mn. Moormeister .0 ; : ; Left Homo at B o'clock. A y i . .. .. TATtlf? imporant developments ! f markast the fourth day of the search for the slayer of Dorothy ; Xoermeister, whose broken body was found early Saturday morulas; moru-las; ea a lonely highway south-of south-of TeylorsvilLe Thsy are: Mrs. Moormeister was seen driving her big sedan into the pel line road, where aha was k later murdered; at about 5:35 ' p. ml Friday by Mr. and Mrs. oka W. Jones and members of tkeir family of Magna.. She weaaloae. - Mrt. Moormeiir was an Ml 16:45 p. m. JTriday driving we oa Ktntk South trU S3k wu Mcitira'.T -identified vation is keen. ' "He called my attention to th doll and to the firs two figures ol the license number." Mr. Jones detailed. Mrs. Moormeister's club sedan is license No. 13-829. Jones asserted he came to Salt Lake Sunday to report the incident, inci-dent, but failed to do so and returned re-turned to Magna, where he is employed em-ployed on the night shift at the mill Eleven witnesses appeared before a coroner's jury at the city and county building at 10 a. m. yesterday. yes-terday. County Attorney John D. Bice conducted the inquiry. Murdered Woman ' Husband Among Witnesses. the witnesses included Dr. Frank Moormeister, husband of the murdered woman; Perry Holt, deputy sheriff at Riverton ; Clifford Taylor, deputy sheriff; Samuel Howard, deputy- sheriff; L. L. Larsen, ehief deputy sheriff im ohmrar nf tha murder investi- I is charges of the murder investi-k investi-k gatioa; Ray Peterson, Magna k Smelter employe who discovered r Mrs. Moormeiater'a battered body on the Pole Line road; Alvah r Stout, finger print expert for the I sheriff's office; Police Officer P. J. Dastrup; Haskell Merrick, special spe-cial officer who found the abandoned aban-doned ear oo the slain woman at Second West and Broadway, and Smith Sutton,, deputy sheriff at Magna. TT VMmnl Sutton iustice of if Art O. Smart Sit Zwrt Via fo1a itrtrt, a Ueal aria Mr. Dm was aeeompaaisdl by tot mn. , - tbm. Heermeiitsr loft ' ker haws, tM last lontk Tamils treat, at 5 y. au Friday, for tfce last tfaae. The testimony . of Mr. and Mrs. ! Josta, supported by their ehild-j ehild-j rtu. is regarded by Sheriff Clif- 1 ford Patten as highly . significant, I Isasnxaeh as it opens the question' ' as to why Mrs. Moormeister was driving alone toward the scene ' that later made her the victim of ' ef the most brutal crimes in asnals of the west. -49av Oar turn Southward at draifer M&eting House. Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their I three boys, Ellis, Robert, and Lloyd, of Magna, agree that they aw a large closed automobile on the Salt Lake-Magna highway, the peaee at Magna presided at the hearing. A jury composed of i William A. Orant, and M. L..Ben-nion, L..Ben-nion, farmers, and E. Thomas Barton, dairyman heard the testi mony of the officers and others interested in the case. The find-ings find-ings of an autopsy - performed Sunday and an analysis of the woman's stomach were presented by county physicians and by state Chemist Herman Herms. I, driven by a woman, attired in a black coat with a white ermine collar and wearing a black hat. y This was at 5:35 o'clock and dark ! nm had not arrived. They noticed he motor car turn " southward at. the Granger meet- f ing house corner into the little travelled Pole line road. Lloyd. Ione of the boys, noticed a doll dancing in rhe rear window of the long, black automobile, and , 4. he also remembered that the figures fig-ures "13" were the first two numerals on the, license plate. Deuty Sheriff Smith Sutton of Magna communicated immediate-I immediate-I lr with Sheriff Patten and Chief Deputy Larsen. Mr. Jones met with the sheriff and Mr,' Larsen at 9:45 o'clock. Wednesday morning to further identify the death car. "Wt were driving home from Salt Lake when about two miles east of the Pole line road we csme witihin view of the large closed automobile." said Mr. Jones. Relieved Ante for About BOe and a half. "For about a mile and a half we followed the machine and at a :r point about 300 or. 400 feet east e fthe Granger meeting house, a small sedan swung out and passed pass-ed the big machine, which I judge was travelling, at a rate of be-tweea be-tweea tweay and twenty-five kiles aa hour. . "Th I drove around aad a-brad a-brad ef the blaek automobile. My fife aid particular attention to the woman, at the wheel of the ear. She noticed particularly the black eoatw,ith the white eollar. And she also noted the blaek hat. "We all observed the machine aad its lone passenger who was tlit wemaaat the wheel. "Then -after we had gone a- beat 200 fee pat the Granger Mtetiag house, the boy who were sitting- in the rear seat and who were still watching the slow-mov-rnf antemwbile,, remarked that 'It's genedown the road.' Oar Turns Suddenly ItU Pele line Road. "The woman seemed to make a very sudden turn into the Pole line road, as though she did not see the stretch until about even with if Lloyd is a youngster who is pard ef hearing, Mr. Jones ex-j plained, but his power of obser-j v' |