The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-21
NEW LIGHT ON
RYAN MURDER
Railroad Man Gives Clue to
Identity Of the SIayers.
SAW RYAN With BAD MAN
THE SUSPECTS HURRIED NORTH
AFTER CRIME.

Information WAS brought to this city
carly this morning, which il is thought,
may throw some light on IN Ryan
murder mystery II tends to confirm
the theory that the peddler was killed
and robbed by gypsies with whom he
had been camping before the tragedy
on Little Cottonwood creek A Voc
man corresponding to the description
of the woman seen with Ryan at Muir
ray and a man said TO be of desperate
character were seen with the peddler
on July 3, and eleven days later they.
With some gypsies. were seen travelling
north at night. evidently. in a great
hurry
This Information was furnished by
Mat Rhodes. formerly a policeman on
the force in this city. but now en-
ployed as "A section foreman on the
Short Line. According to the state
ment made by Rhodes. he noticed three
rigs containing some gypsy fortune
tellers, a strange woman and man
from the Jackson Hole country camp
Ing near Syracuse point on the Short
Line. July g. Mr.. Rhodes does not
know Ryan, but he stated that there
was a man i'm the crowd who exactly
fits the description of Ryan and one of
the rigs corresponds with that owned
by the murdered man. Besides this.
Ryan's camp was with the party that
camped near where his gang Of Jap
anese were working on the Sd. The
dog, he declares, he would know any
where, and there is no mistake but that
the animal now held by the officers is
the same one. Mr.. Rhodes says that
.he party spent the night near his
camp and during the afternoon the wo-
men busted themselves telling the for
tunes Of some of his men. They disap-
peared during the night ana he saw
nothing more of them until the evening
of July H. At that time, according to
his statement two rigs, containing the
gypsies, the strange dark woman and
the man from Jackson's Hole, drove
by his camp. They seemed to be in a
great hurry. he stated. and appeared
to be getting away as fast as possible.
He declared that their actions were so
markedly suspicious that it attracted
his attention and he remarked at the
time that they must have gotten into
some trouble and were hurrying away.
Ryan's rig was not with the party and
he also noticed that the bulldog was
missing. The gypsies did not stop. but
drove hurriedly in the direction of
Neber canyon.
Mr.. Rhodes asserts that one Of the
women in the rig fits perfectly the de-
scription given OF the woman seen with
Ryan at Murray. He says he noticed
her particularly because she seemed to
be shy and would not leave the wag-
ons much when the party was first
camped near his construction car.
The man. according TO Mr.. Rhodes
has a ranch in the Jackson Hole dis
trict and is known to him. He asserts
that this man has a reputation IN
/ Idaho for being a desperate character
: and making his living by rObbing peo-
/ pie whom he can victimize. He be
! lieves that the party is making it's way
/ back to the Jackson Hole country
I 1t is known that Ryan had just re
/ turned from a trip through Idaho anC
] it is believed that the gypsies and thu
/ man fell in with him while he was
( travelling through there. Mr.. Rhode:
] does not hesitate to declare his belle
/ that these are the parties guilty of thu
/ crime