The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-04


piece of cloth covered the girls face
and another was wrapned around her
head.
The autopsy. told the rest--Iiila
H0yIe hs6 been somebody's Vlctlrns 70
hide this and shield the guilty she had
been chlOrofornled to death.
solomon Shunanay prepared TO do ms
duty 70 the little community which
With only that worn and frayed piece
of rope, which had been used TO tie
the feet and hands as a. clue, he start.
he'd to solve the mystery. The towns
people and state officials brought an
| other detectives. That made subway
mad
.If the state oficials know so much
4 about this mystery he announced one
day, they can solve it without my
I aid.
For months the detectives worked on
/ the mystery. So did solomon Shum-
4 way, ON the quiet
With the coming Of springtime Alice
+ Hoyle confessed. Thomas AIcQuade
1 little Lila She said. The girl then
! told of how she and her uncle -drugged
8 the girl, sent tor 1fcQ9ade and all Eyent
I to the country with the body. En-
Nfved and Struggled but was choked
and again drugged. Finally she was
left in d Meld bound hand aud foot to
die alone.
Hcyle's confession fell to the ground.
She refused TO stand by it, and the
two men were trfumphantly~ acquitted.
-Four years later Alice Hoyie CON
fessed' again This time the name of
andrew HOyle. anDther uncle of the
girls was bruited about But the nlyS-
terry Was. deepened when Alice tEI0yIe
EelopeQ with her uncle, Andrew HoyIep
2 He deserted his wife and family.
once again Sol Shunfvay sneered
T
He knew the right ones and they were
none OF those W no had so far been
talked about in the case. Not lpng
& ago, to two men ne told the secret he
, had guarded fer so many years. One
was a lawyer, one OF those VINO de-
Tended AtcQuade and Coyvie. Both were
pledged TO secrecy. promising never tC
let out what they knew till Shumway
should have died. They kept their
old shunWay said that in the girl
ear was, one small, cheap earning. ats
mate was missing. He found it. But
was only atter n1o2ths 81 patient
TABOR. The earring had been Dropped
iron a mans pocket. Somebody else
a friend Of the piqUed old deputy
sheriff, saw it fan ana quietly picked
il up. He turned 1t ever to- SUBWAY
I'm a fortnight he had the fun STORY.
more guilty bhan the rest. That man
the murderer Of Lila HOWE, accord
ing to Shumway, lives today in Weo-
sters prosperous and. respected. He
Killed by accident Lila, Hoyle- his
fthree, friends helped him dispose OF the
body.
Lila HoyIe had suecumbed to the
soiee of the ternpter a year before heI
. death. There We're tour young men il
, this little town who were rivals foI
: her. A { the crucial time all agreed t
: stand by the unfortunate girl and eacf
z other
know something about medicine.
I said enc of the four young men, %anC
:. i think a little chIorDfor9h viii give
! her relief. a little was used. but Lille
Hoyle had an affection OF her heart
3 The chioToforu killed her The mex
7 night, at midnight, the5, Ieftsthefr rem
9 devious in a. closed carriage and tool
the body to the held where it wa,
{ found three weeks later While tle1
were taking the body, from the car
I riageS one Of I-illais earrings fell out
i driving home, one Of the young meI
< noticed it lying on the carriage floor
r he put it in his pocket
Z %And now, gentlemen, said old So
+ ShUmway when he reached that par
4 of the story, here it is.
He drew out drawer of his ok
I desk There in a boz lay both of tn
: ngs-those that Lila Hoyle hat
E Worn on the night she went out 10 he