Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-19

r,r,ns the whole VI 1900 a,, II,
Duriue an,ire police department al
night n. '' a.v v',tNs At the disposal Of
= w " yaylor more than one hundred
shellH n at Forest Dale and this
le0V' s,,0 done their utmost to pnrayel
% ~ mystery u" that surrounds the , murder u,
l'' D' ',Nsry Of James X. Hay last Mon
fhO 'y WI, put there Is little change
=, ", ~ situation over that OF 'sst night
" IVY 's,rya polnt more conoluslvely
f"a y AsmasIpsly towards Mortensen
'lu ~ vesterday; others have arisen
Which 'c contradict the suspicion mat ne
i The guilty man . ....,,,o !. 10.
: Meanwhile everything possible Is De-
doue that can be done to fathom
Z. case, II transplres that i , was Inc .ne
,.s,s, from a "A calIbre revolver that
.' 'S', Young Hays life the missile being
moved from his brain last night duf-
'0s an autopsy at the undertaking e'-
, y. Of Joseph %, Taylor. The
".. ,ael az sure today that Morton
" g me murderer as they did on
Ia, w. INIT ne was not sbadily con-
,,etsd With the affair. On II being
,soru,d that Hay died from a bullet
,'mOa the officers Immediately searched
Nor,.nyen's house in the belief that
,bsy would find a revolver which cor
,ssoonded in caliber TO the bullet which
d,6 me fatal work, But not SO; the gun
urd at Mortensens home was ~
,uAb,r Weapon and bore no evidence
= having been recently fred, II nat
r,sv follows that II Mortensen did the
'NootIpg he aid II with another gun
!, |, hat gun for which dlligent search
!, now being made. Hays hat, too
!, also missing. An Of his other wear
me- apparel was on his body at the
time i, was eShumed from It's crude
resting place in the pasture ut the side
Of the railroad track
Motensen is stlll in the city jail, put
,,rIned to be less communicative to-
day than yesterday--this probably on
|,be advice Of counsel. During the DAY
I'm 81 the acts Of his past life so far as
known have been gone into. II IS
clearly proved that he has been asso-
clated with number OF questionable
transactions though never convicted OF
wrong doing. The police believe thai
within another twenty-four hours they
win have such a web Of evidence woven
around him that he viii not be able to
escape answering to the charge that
has been laid at his door. They say
that the alibl Mortensen expects 10
prove from the fact that he took MS
sister.In.law home does not count, II
Is their opinion that he went into the
yard with Hay from his own house
where the money is alleged to have
been paid over, and that he slugged
the young man Immediately on step
ping outside the door and that he re-
turned to the house within a minute or
80, as he states and then accompanied
bis sster-in-law as claimed by all Of
then; that after his return to his own
home he picked up the body and bore
y to the place where It was buried
These charges however do not shake
'he faith Of many Of the people of For
|sS Dale In Mortensen. They declare
Plat he Is not that kind Of man, and
|are Of the firm opinion that the de-
|Selopments Of the next few days Will
M the shadow Of murder from his
name notwithstanding the fact that he
|las madesome apparently contradictory
statements, among them the one that
ne bad $500 10 gold stored In fruit bot
|ues at specified place In his cellar
An official examination Of the cellar
|ulsclosed the fact that the dust at that
|tpot has not been disturbed In any
|nanner.
Wnat the police viii have TO clear up
"ii De the conversation that took place
'e'ween Hay and Mortensen on the
u as uey journeyed home together,
Hu wnat Induced the former to so to
'oe latteTs home that night for the
'n0ney In face Of instructions to the
'OnuaFy from the president OF the
Ompany and further, how the body
'1me 10 be two blocks distant in a d.
''u0n mat Hay was not called upon
uayerse In order to go to Morten-
pens house
iOuns Hays funeral will take place
hS S% ule Twentieth ward meeting
1esn,o, ~ y o'clock on Sunday next, The
bs %1e' Win which he was held by the
rss,s ~ u mat ward and the sad and
<5emis,V circumstances attendant upon his
lrrss,s,. WY probably bring out the
hresss,l lumber Of people ever seen at
1 II That part of the city.