Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-21
Ho1a, MOrenSen
Killed Hay.
!. g)s,,as Of the Darkest Tragedy Ever Committed
!, Uah-Fach cAre in Possession 81 Officials ana
any Be Publicly Used in Ae Event Of SVe~ Trial
Being Grained

s",ng Of James r. by Peter Mortensen .,
orc presented OF the ntormahs
s @ for reasons which readily be comprehended but they
G the belief they true and that they comprise the 'eN
% ta most shocking in the history OF the country
% n friendly relationship OF the neshoor
wen aratey which was the real root Oh
and the cruel nhuman detail of the tragedy the ~ " ~
m,, ,ov the ingenuity Of Sherlock Holmes to duplicate
ry Hay left his the night of Monday DEC
e nav that he was going Mortensens to e0'~c.
reF 100 Ds and that he be back Sin minute,
N Instant later said might have to stop little time
NV aver some plans work which Mortensen had IN FeE
MoRTENsENs HOME COMING
p, Mortensen left the $50 o'clock and
at Ii o'clock breathing heavily and apparently muh exhaust
the matter peter have been working hard VenuTed
I'M, MGensen -, 49,. ,.on s,ro,vhtanne IN some
on no" replied Mortensen; ! nave just ' '
ms few minutes Mrs Henry who was visiting at
L. u for her home accompanied by Peter who upon reuhms'
Eot bed this time Mrs Morensen suspected nothing V
not experience occurrences until next morning
4 BURNING OF THE BLOODY SHIRT
M as that Morensen white shirt which he had worn
[ Moro He had apparently the blood the sleeves
h and upon until this time He lifted the I'D from n
and throw the shirt when Mrs Moensen
r @ vow burning that shirt peter7 shirt to
burn said she 49,, . .,,., ,,or,s,
mind It IS can wash it. Don't destroy shirt like that
&Uby heres blood IL How did you get that?
NV nose and some Of 1t got on the shirt
DsUpO.e It did, that VIII wash all right"
oh we'll never the shirt under the stove I'D
p.ym seen him previously object into the and re-
h w. & had the appearance OF hat Mrs sIortensen
E, At the thought that mind And especially did
n, o suspicion haunt her that something
the coming Hay the early morning to look for her husband
IN having gone with the night before
LED TO THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY
when Hay the house Monday night was not to
R from the hed they were merely walking around for
HI purpose talking proposition that Peter desired " make to JIM
@ they likely be overheard Much for Mortensen
~ upon rejection OF the proposal he had make
their conversation he led the unsuspctng man 10 lonely spot "he
sn.ra alternative exercised the event of refusal
!. " iDIsHoNoR OR DEATH
proposition Hay the effect that he turn over
cancelled
Ne the but that on the way from the Mornsen
up robbed for this Mr. Hay was to
half Of the which he had collected
firm contracts Little dreaming what was to follow poor Jimmy Hay In
and Morensen face
very embarrassing the mind that could
s out of the dilemma except
|hrash the death Of his friend and neighbor
FIRING THE FATAL SHOT
fatal pursued by
m and suspicion lest his deed should be discovered upon the
dropped formed by the railway grade and
sy until he reached the OF his own premises Here he
M the his watching both his own house
pa The railway Cautiously surveying the nghborhood and the
cation tragedy minutes the sunshot
pa brought any inqusitve nelshbors to their DOORS
FROM TO BODY.
Seeing moonlight that the peaceful 1T
hamlet Forest serenity Monsen at
|d his crime by preparations to
the character OF his dead friend and neghbo He would bury
pay and make that had abscoded with the money that
supposed have been paid him Taking his long handled shovel from
@ and nov being moened by the fact that apparently no one had
|d the brayey walked down
rack the moonlight He crossed the street railway track and saw
approaching the crossing Seventh East For fatal instant he turned
nmy Hay and satisfied himself his neghbor indeed dead
GRAVE IN THE PASTURES
was quite hard Job had lift the body the wire
but Jimmy light and by dnt Of and rapid frantic
|hg Mtensen had the the body OF the
PEA dead covered by little mound Of earth The shallow to be
Out who could sayPpehaps might then cold and the
excavation made hacked through earth Why should not the
mound freeze and the comparatively mpgnabe
Then would be months And who would
suspect Peter Mortensen the disappearance
X Hay remained In the ami attended his business
L any other good cizen2
DISPOSITION OF THE
WIN feeling Of satisfaction graduation
""e fence again and strobe
Exclamation he Jmmys spot
S earth shall do with that? only
10y m way to Jmmy's gravel"
" was little time avoid suspicion at his
voc hat with him and watching for and see
Ha ne thought opportunity was plunged into the
AS TO AIIBI AND AID
MS arrest Moensen attempted the alleged fact
| nKlng his sisrinlaw home the time fired
s facts however desiring friends
stated him that satisfactory xplana
m whereabouts hours Of 80 and II o'clock an the night
DEC IT, 1901 the nnanc and other as
Ehh require He replied that his attorneys him to So
would do so but that he had been ad
" make no such statement
OFFICIALS HAVE THE FACTS
lay story Of the crime positively certain officials who
.s e'snt Of second " ~ ~ ' ~ I" Is '"ouSn' De removed
does not desire this instance the
or BY truth and tells the d.
va 40 hy may be told BY another murderer himself