The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-22
FOLLOWED
TO MURDERERS
Sheriff Believes He KnSWs Per-
petrators of Deed.
GYPSIES UNDER SUSPICION.
PERSONS DESCRIBED BY HER
AID TRACED NoRTHWARD.

IN EN EA-Of' I'm 1 = yesterday IN tAS I
William y. Ryan murder mystery
tend to confirm the suspicious
that the band Of gypsies seen with the
peddler by Matthew Rhodes near Sy-
racuse Point had something to do with
the old mans death and robbery. IL
has been learned that the gypsies
camped near Ryan at Winchester ranch
the day before his death and he took
dinner with them the evening of the
lcth. After the murder the gypsies- dis
appeared and have not been seenFsince
except by Rhodes. when they were hur-
rying north. The officers are bending
every effort now tOWads locating this
band of fortune tellers. Messages
have been sent 10 arrest any
gypsy party that many be found and
hold them until an officer from here
can make Investigations. No trace of
the party has been found yet but the
sheriff believes that within the next
day or two they viii be apprehended.
Sheriff Traces Movements.
As soon as the story related by Matt
Rhodes and recounted IN The Herald
yesterday morning became known 10
Sheriff Emery yesterday he set his men
20 work TO trace the movements of the
CypSies from Syracuse Point TO the time
that they reappearCd there on the 18th
lie learned that a party of nOmads.
among whom was a woman with red
hair, another Of dark complexion, and
a strange man. followed Ryan TO Win
chester ranch and camped a half-mile
or more away, during the time that ny
an remained i'm that vicinity He learned
also that Ryan seemed TO be we'll ac-
Quainted with the party and that they
went back and forth 10 each others
camps. On the evening Of July TO- the
night before he was murdered. Ryan was
zen eating dinner in the gypsy, carr1S5';
/ The next day he moved north and made
his camp I'm the fatal spot on Little Cot
UOuWOO0 creek. The gypsies moved their
camp July II, also. but as yet the Of
ficers have not been able 10 learn where
they camped on the night OF that day
The fact that they had been camping
near Ryan for days before that time
le5- is the officers to argue that they
must have pitched their tents near him
on that fatal night. The story of the
farmer who saw man and woman AT
Ryan's camp an hour or more before
the pcddlCr was murdered. goes stlll Iur-
thsr to convince the officers that the
gypsy camp was not far away and that
the strangers seen by the farmer were
from that camp. The murder and rob
berry were committed that night the man
and woman seen at the camp dlsap-
at the same time Ihls IS taken as
proof that the man and woman seen Dy
the farmer committed the crime and that
/ they Were members of the gypsy party.
Gypsies Suddenly Disappear.
After this an trace of the gypsies is
lost until the night Of The 18TH WAea
they were agaiH seen in the vicinity oi
Svracf Sc Point. this time hurryN1lg
northWard and acting suspiciousiy. 10
the party when they were first seen
by Rhodes were the man said by Rhodes
to be from JacksOn's Hole the dark
woman and the red-haired woman. me
same persons were seen IN the party
that passed on the night OF July a.
From this the officers believe that the
I deed was done by the man described by
Rhodes and that he was assisted by
] 81. I'll
1T is fooIishness." said Sheriff En-
cry. Ito believe that the woman commit
I ted the crime herself she was SIMPLY q
l tool used by the man that he might be
/ able to get into the good graces OF Ky
an. She probably did all the drrduBlng
and shaped matters around so that me
murderer would be with the oeduleE
! when the opportunity presepted lJselt
! for the fatal blow TO be struck.
The sheriff believes also that the Wo-
! man seen coming and going to and from
Ryan's camp when he was near HOT
! Springs was travelling between the syp-
| sv camp and that of the peddler.
! When Rhodes last saw the gypsles they
were going toward Weber canyon out
/ every effort TO get any trace OF t.eHl
/ I'm this vicinity has proved unAN,'-liIlS-
/ The sheriff is determined to locate this
band Of gypsies and to that END mas
| notified the officers along the road De
| tween here and the Jackson Hole coun-
/ try to arrest any gypsies that may come
4 through their district
Clue Found in Logan.
Last evening word was received from
/ Sheriff Rigby of Logan that he was ON
I the trail Of the suspects. While return
/ ing from Salt Lake Sunday night he To-
/ Gated two men and a woman who Ut
/ the description Of the woman with Ryan
/ on the train going to Logan from Cache
] Junction. The men remained IN hlolng
( i'm Logan until yesterday, when they and
/ the woman left for the north, presuglm1-
| ably going toward ReXburg. Ida. The
| sheriff learned that they had hired a
team at Brigham City and driven 10
/ Cache Junction through WeusViue can
! yon At the JUNCTION they telephoned
I back to Brigham City for man 10
! come for the team. and 10 send the bill
/ to 500 Ternplet0n building. Salt Lake
! a man went from Brigham for the rig
/ and sent the biz TO Salt Lake but re
ceived no reply. Sheriff Rigby notified
/ Sheriff Emery of the matter and the lat
/ ter gave him instructions TO follow ana
/ arrest the parties. Late last night now
I ever Sheriff Emery received word Ihal
/ the persons had been located and tnat
/ they were not the suspects The occu-
/ liant of 5O4 TempietOn building could not
be found last night and the identity on
tho persons is not known. The Sherlll
/ telephoned 20 Malad. Ida. last night
/ where the persons are, to learn Ihelr
! identity He is Of the opinion, from
| their strange actions, that they are some
( other persons who are wanted by the OF
ficers here