The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-30
THE WOUND.

When an examination Of the body
was made it was found that every shot
from the cartridge had entered the face.
The 9oint of entrance was near the
point of the right cheek bone, and the
entire upper jaw, the right eye and half
of the nose was torn away and driven
into the cavity of his head. A peculiar
thing is that not a shot came out OF
/, the head, though the whole charge
ranged a little upward, and is evidently
! lodged just above the left ear.
The weapon with which the deed was
done was a 12-gauge shotgun, and. the
shot used was No. or 5. An empty
shell was found about noon under a
granary nearby, that had just been ex-
ploded, and this may yet assist in de-
| tecting the criminal. 1t was a W1ncheS-
ter paper shotgun shell, of the "Blue
RivaI' brand. A Wad found near the
body Just fits the shell.
| There is much conjecture as to how
the assassin contrived to enter the
store without arousing the watchman,
| who is said to have been SO light a
sleeper that one low call to him was
! sufficient to awaken him at any hour
of the night. OF course, entrance was
not made through either door. That
would be impossible No windows were
disturbed, and all of the lower win
dows are heavily barred. Even the
chute through which coal is shoveled
into the basement is covered with a
grating of two-inch bars Of iron. This
CRATE can be moved, but it is fastened
inside. The theory of many persons is
that this chute was the vulnerable
point of the building, and that it was
through it that ingress was made.
Tracks in the coal would indicate that
some one had entered there and then
closed the grating after him. But il
is stoutly affirmed by the employees
that it was locked last night, and hence
the query is: How could it be un-
fastened from without? A bar of iron
that would pass through the CRATE
might do the work, and just such a
bar was found in an old we'll nearby
this morning. 1t is said that the same
bar of iron was lying by the building
yesterday.
Once inside of the basement. the in
truder would have no difficulty in going
up the steps into the store, and his
coming up the steps might have arous-
ed the watchman just in time to meet
his death.
ANOTHER THEORY.
Another theory is that Mr.. Sandal
had stepped outside during the night.
and that during his absence the fellow
had slipped in, While there are others
who incline to the belief that he en-
tered the store before the closing hour
last night and secreted himself until his
opportunity came. Still others think the
watchman might have been called, and
that he opened the door to admit, as
he supposed, a friend, who might de-
sire to purchase some medicine In the
absence of anything definite to base an
opinion upon, each of these theories is
believed by some.
While it is clear that if robbery was
intended, the purpose was abandoned
after the shooting, still it seems that
an effort was made by the intruder to
make the robbery theory seem D aus3bIe
The money till on the north side Of the
store had been opened and searched. but
it contained nothing of value but a few
coppers, and they were not taken. The
safe was untouched.
A pistol that the dead man had to de-
fend himself is missing, and it might
have formed a good clue but for fhe
fact that no one knows the make of the
pistol. 1t was, however, a 38-caliber
weapon The keys to the front door
were also taken, but after the murderer
had gone outside he threw them under
a granary, where they have since been
found.
Instead of using the keys to unlock
the 'front.' door and let himself out that
way, the culprit had, it is presumed. be-
come frightened of detection. if he went
out at the front, and he therefore re- |