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Show MURDER MYSTERY PARTLYGLEARED UP HAUNTED BY FEAR, BURGLAR TELLS POLICE HIS WIFE WAS KILLED BY ROBBERS. Declares Woman Who Was Murdered Near County Jail in Salt Lake Was Beaten to Death and Robbed of $10,000 Worth of Jewels. Salt Lake City. A murder mystery which engaged the attention of the police of several cities in the country, the tragedy . occurring in Salt Lake, was practically solved at Chicago on December 9, when a man giving his name as Howard DeWeese and his age as 31 years, walked into the detective bureau of the Chicago police department depart-ment and acknowledged that a woman who was murdered in Salt Lake on a night about the 20th of September was his wife. De Weese admitted to the authorities authori-ties that he was a burglar and that he was guilty of a number of crimes, but declared that he was not guilty of the murder of the woman. His story as detailed to the police: "My name is Howard DeWeese. I am a burglar. On September 20 in Salt Lake my wife was murdered. Her diamonds, valued at $10,000, were stolen. I fled because I was afraid, with my record, I would be accused of the murder. I want to clear myself. "Under the name of C. D. Robbins I had been employed in a haberdashery in New York City and in November, 1916, eloped to Reno, Nev., with the wife of the proprietor, Mrs. Harry Fisher. Mrs. Fisher obtained a divorce in Reno in August, 1916, and a few days later she and I were married there." DeWeese claimed that he and his wife came to Salt Lake, and that while he was away from their apartments his wife was murdered and her diamonds dia-monds and jewels taken. The mutilated body of a woman was found September 24 in a room at 455 South Second East. Her head had been beaten almost beyond recognition rec-ognition and the body was partially decomposed. Indications were that she had been dead at least three days. Near the bed on the floor was a flatiron wrapped in a bloody towel. With a man who represented himself him-self as her husband and who gave his name as D. C. Robbins, they engaged the apartment three days before the body was discovered. Robbins was missing and the police and sheriff's force began a search on the theory that he had slain the woman. The body of the murdered woman was buried bur-ied in the potter's field after all efforts ef-forts to identify her had failed. |