The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-23
Link by Link is the Chain
of Evidence
RNCIRCLING e. T. HAYES.
His Missing Son saidtep be in Connect
cut-While Here it is SAID He Feared
Hayes ana Said That Hayes Had
Threatened His Life.

OF suspicion over ana around Ola man
Harry I. Hayes. Link by link is the
chain OF circumstantial evidence being
encircled about him. Already in the
minds of big majority of the pub
lie is he convicted of the horrible Peli
can Point triple murder, and the off,
GERS are hard at work on the case trac-
ing up several clues which they have
every reason to believe will bring to
light evidence that will convict Hayes
judiciallY of the awful crime. He has
not as yet been placed under arrest,
but he IS being watched closely.
If he is not guilty of this crime, if he
is an innocent man, he is in most
terrible situation, for it is one OF the
most revolving, most hideous crimes
that ever was perpetrated by the hand
OF human fend of which he is sus-
pected. But when it is recalled that
he quaked and trembled whenever an
officer came near him before ever he
was suspected, while another man in
fact, MIR Slade, was thought to be the
murderer of Albert Err sJrom; that he
was the hTst to attract suspicion to-
ward himself by asserting positively
that the other two bodies, the team
and wagon were ail in the lake; that
no inquiry for the missing boys had
been made by him who first knew that
they were gone; that he it was who
assuaged the fears of others who be-
came alarmed at their continued alb.
sence by giving out that she boys had
| gone to Arizona; that he first said there
were no firearms on the ranch when
the boys were there nor when he
placed MIR. Peterson in charge and
then was compelled TO admit, after
hearing the evidence of Others, that
there were that he selected Mr.. Peter
son to take charge of the ranch, d man
over whom he has entire control, a
man not overly bright, who believes
everything Hayes says implicitly; that
he has been known to have many Yio-
Lent quarrels with his stepson, Albert
Ernstrom; that it is evident from the
surroundings that johnson and Ne son
were surprised and murdered at night
after they had retired; that these boys
to Pelican Point from Goshen on the
day ErnstrOm is supposed to have been
killed; that, IN fact, they must have
reached there on the evening of that
day; that Hayes testified that he has
had little or no sleep for about two
months because, as he says, he has
been sleeping on The cot and in the
bedding which his stepson Albert
used; that he says one Of the blankets
has large corner cut out which has
been cut out for months and that he
has had this blanket wrapped about his
feet and kicked about IN the wagon
back and forth with him on several
trips to Lake Shore and to Eureka, and
that during all this time this piece
has been cut out but the cut when first
seen by the officers was not frayed at
all but looked fresh and as though it
had just been made; when these and
many other circumstances are remem-
bered it is easily believed that Hayes,
at least, knows more about those
murders sthan he is now telling. I'm
doubtedly that corner of the blanket
was saturated with blood, blood that
oozed out of the ugly hole the cowardly
assassin bored through the head of
poor Andrew johnson as Johnson lay
quietly and lnnocently sleeping. DID
Hayes cut that corner out within the
last week OF ten days and bury or
burn it?
Some there are who say that the
triple murder could not have been
committed by one man because john
son was very heavy and strong man,
of 10 Hrr,
Nelson was feet of foot and very &C
tive. If Ernstrom was shot in the after
noon during the progress of a quarrel
and Johnson In the evening as he lay
sleeping and the boy Nelson as he was
fleeing from the awful sight, one man
did the job easily. 1t was possible for
him then to pick the men up, place
them in the wagon, drive the whole
out Oh to the ice and sink it. If this
were done, however, it seems that ere
this the carcasses Of the horses would
have risen TO the surface of the water
and carried with them even the wagon
and harness. A thorough search of the
lake is being made in the hopes of
finding the wagon and horses. Sheriff
Brown has charge of this work, should
be succeed in finding the team and
wagon it can be seen that considerable
light will be shed upon the affair, that
a strong link in the chain of evidence
will have been welded.
The idea that Gus Slade had any
thing whatever to do with the tragedy
is now generally secuted by all except
Hayes and some of his relatives anu
friends.
The idea has been advanced that
young man who came from California |
last year and was first represented as q
nephew OF Hayes and then as Hayes |
son, was probably connected with the
murders and has skipped with the
team and wagon. Some say that be
also has been murdered and expect to
find his body in the lake All that
has come out in evidence concerning
him is that he was quiet, inoffensiye
and we'll meaning man and left these
in, DocoDohaf Lost and hoo MT