| Show 6 SALT LAKE TRUNK MYSTERY the rhe Suppo supposed ned victim in 1 living and has H TR TO ills identity chica chicago 0 O april 19 oliver pike the abe supposed victim odthe of the salt lake utah mystery lim has turned up efella lie has written to his mother and friends at fayette 0 where his body was supposed to be reposing in a grave rave in the fayette cemetery and after meeting with some opposition has succeeded in establishing his identity pike it salt lake in he ams ms disappeared from 1694 1894 and according to his own story went to sound and later to california where he is known harry price he assigns no reason fc for r chang ing ng his name the alib history of the trunk mystery is is follows lu in the su summer in mer of 1894 a man took to to the union pacific freight depot in salt lake a box which he shipped to chicago as household goods paying laying the freight thereon the box was never delivered and after lying around for two years the company sold it at auction to get storage charges the box was found to contain a trunk ond and the trunk a scaled zinc case con taing the decomposed remains of a human being there had disappeared about the time of the shipment of the box a frenchman named prosser chaz I 1 zel ills his friends at once claimed it to be his body in the trunk believing tie lie had been murdered for the jewels he be usually wore an uncle of pike however appeared in chica chicago o and identified the remains as those of pike and secured them for interment it lias has since developed that he stated he would prove they thep were pikes remains if it cost him the settlement of an state detate bein being involved |
