Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-04-22
AN ATROCIOUS CRIME
The Bodies Of Andrew johnson and
Allied N.iIsOl Found.
THEY WERE HnOwNIS HE LAKE.
They are supposed to Have Born Nur.
dercd While Asleep In tue Cabin
-lIayos Suspected.

Tho bodies o. Auirlw johnson and
Alfred Mellon, the two missing
cousius o. Alert Hansen, who was
murdered a. Pelican Point, were
found Saturday evening, AMI the cir.
uum taucUd Indicate tla, oil three Of
tho young men wofU murdered by tbs
Same party.
The Unleiai party who were IN search
% the boIies, did not mud them;
they were found 10y old man Hayes
siep'aIIcr OF young Hansen. An.
Grew Johulou'B body was found
floating on tho 90 lscp and
Allied Nullsou'a wss imboldrd
Ia the mud "a. tue shore. They were
pulled 90 ,no shore aud an examine
ton showed that Nelson mad been
shot IN the head with rifle tall, but
mo- wounds wufr visible IN the rE posed
pJitious Of JohusJaS body. a t,tp.
s9u OF Mt, uayr, named rcrrll, was
with the iatiy when the boiie1 were
l1uui. aus was sult 90 Lshi 90 modify
over iuu bodies -alufisy night Mar
shnl Karen was notihui aud loft 3r
Provo, From tIugp party c9uE|alilg
of Coroner Berg, JufurH Geo, HtWsr,
NINU Ryan and James Brown, Df.
ss,brght AMI Thorpe, anu U;htt
Uilicgrs were glspaICnei 10 the place OIL
tuu IND.
Arriving Of the scene they proceeded
At ulyo 90 examine tHe u8fpsra. The
body " Andrew Johnson lay on tue
beach face lwuwari, tho greater part
Of bic body bviug naked, and was great.
yHwJlion from exposure iu tue sIu. A
bullet had entered the right silu %
bic head, little more than an iuc1
shove the night car, and came cut
about two inches back Of tho loft cat.
The face presented dreadful appeat-
har' AMI above the rignt eye was =
clnfu.ign, probably csugrd by tho face
striking hUuldUrs lu the lake.
ihp body OF Alfred Nelson lay
about thirty PAGES south, also face
downward. A large bullet hole was
found In he head also, and the bullet
had lodged over tho LEFT aye, 10 was
taken out ny the doctor, anu was
found ~ be badly battered, but AZ
pURTcI to be "a ii,calibOT bail.
There IN little doubt that the three
boys were killed by the came person,
tlt the uUiur' ot the cflnlc Il a myB-
| tuIy, Albert HguGen, whose body was
uUUI some time urrviuuH 10 the
OtACr, was aged - yeato, Andrew
j UIurIu 20 ana Allfuu Nelson Is.
The boys were all Of scandinavian
descent anu are well spoken Of by
itiauds nui acquaintance. At the
timc they wbtr murdered they only
had sjll between them, 30 they could
not have been KILLED Tor lhuir money.
They were intofcaied In stock on
small ranch at Pelican Point, on the
west shore ~ Utah lake, twelve miles
south wtat " Luhi. ltis supposed that
tue victims were asleep ia little
board cabin on too ranch some night
600 February after the IAN, when they
were CfCpt upon iu shr darkness by
ono VI two men, who shot them denu,
sitter which tue b0dltn were carried out
aui thrown into Utah lake, The team
amt wagon which was kept by the
boys on the ranch IL missing, Rud
lhrfa n s0me suspicion that It hgs
been taken out VI the country by She
ION OF old man Hayes, VINO Is
itepiaiuor ~ one OF the murdered
! tuya. This sou isBlid 10 have paid
| Hgyos visit last iall. Ihu Officers
| bylioyo he was implicated with the
| glhUr IN the murduL Although Hayes
| IL suspected Of tho crime he maintains
| that no 10 innocent aud declares no
viii do his utmost " ferret cut tho
| myHtefy.
The people living at Pelican Point
arc mostly connected and this theory IL
advanced by some that the murder was
| the rrsulI Of family cut
The COfoucr's inquiry is In progress
today, at Luhi. Dragging the lako
win ue continued In tue hope Oi mad.
ing Ihu team aud wagon, which disap-
pcArud at the time the murders were
committed.