The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-06

Cross Shows Where
been learned and that point strongly to
suicide as the only Jenable theory ID lhe
minds of the deputy shefltts VINO nave
been working upon the case.
Seen in Gambling Houses.
eve have learned that Ions spent sew
Light gambling house. said Deputy
Sheriff Steele last night. zone Of the
prOprietors called az Evans undeTtak-
ing parlOrs and positively identified Long
as the man VINO haQ peen hanging
around the gambling room for several
found After leaving the Green Light
Long met Ed Anderson. telephone inc
man, and a friend i'm the Success saloon
something He played game Of pool
with Anderson and paid for IT, He re-
marked at the time that he was nearly
br0ke-that be had but S.
''Iu company with Anderson he then
went 60 the Albany hotel on West Sec
about midnight. Anderson went immedi-
ateiy 20 bed but Ions, remaridns that
ogden. purchased "a pint flask Of whisky
ana went out. He was never seen alive
by any acquaintance after that.
Why Clothes Were Dry.
Everything points 10 his walking down
the railroad track % MURRAY D ne iatt
that his clothes were dry when INC ooaS
was found IS proba bis due 10 his sleeping
I'm box car. as from the railroad tracks
10 the suot where the body was found -
not over fifteen minutes walk, ana l4e
shots were not fITeo u-Ll aEtef 3 81 t-oCH-
Deputy Sheriff Dave Recksteao and MS
brother carefully examined the premises
ard gave III as their opinion that the ood}
could nor have been placed I'm the posi-
zion fu which 10 was found AFTER oFdtn
had arzued-aud death certainly was all
There is mo- doubt fin my mind or. in
the opinion of Deputy Becksleau lnat
Long committed suicide. The very facl
OF his having no papers I'D ms 9olAst.ss
take as a proof that he wished 20 niue
every trace that would lead 20 MS eN-
posture. Only two weeks $50 Ions, ~
speaking 20 James Heguey. proprietor OF
the Albany. remarked fndJ lT he ever gpt
into any trouble through emDezzletng4t
he knew a sure way Of ending all He
iUuimated that he would have no heSltd-
lion In taking his life 90 avoid detection
or az least escape the penalty
Long Fond Of Gambling.
". 3 Evans Murray Hueman. whose
friendship with the dead man extended
over a period of several years. said yes
LONG was a great gambler. and fire.
gueutlV lost his entire wages Tor the
month at q single throw. I have known
him TO have his watch lu and out or the
pawnsh0p a half-dOZeu times 1n month
baIieve that his mother lived until re-
Gently in Pueblo Colo. / snow lhaL NE
was heavily in debt ..,.. 1900
der having been committed Deputy Sher-
iff Beckstead Immediately after belhE
notified Of the diseoeet] esl ,i, ,i.is ~
the vicinity Of the spot pa "hlCn Lne -
mains were found. He was accompanied
bv William Hibbard, Neil Anderson
Rube Peterson, Conner bIeWlf Wlitlel-
bird Frank Reading and Charles Brown.
AN oE Murray, each Of whom. az BECK
stead's request, assisted ID lle es4iL-l--
ALTON Nothing was found. according TO
4Ie deofty that would indicate that foul
play had been done and the bodE dlteT-
wards placed in the position in when
Brown and Reading found It,
The position Of the body was peculiar
THE man law upon his back I'm the thick
pst part Of the hedge. The lert arm was
on the breast. the fingers just our or
reach OF the pistol butt The legs were
slightly crossed. The revolver was stick
iuE upright iu the soft ground
Bbg6IufeTv no powder burns marked the
entrance OF the lead Iaklus me case
stem BIZ step the statements OF those
vghrse TESTIMONY must be- relied upon 20
great extent in clearing up the mystery
follows,
Story Of Boy Who Found Body.
Ell was me and Frank Reading that
found the dead man. said -+-l -al-gll
Charles Brown Yesterday afternoon "
were out hunting mushrooms. and j In
sure it was only few minutes aLLef ID
when we came across 0 he man 4ne nooL
was lying On one or .Ie ---ithy.7- ~ p o-
the woIloWs and might nave ram tNele
long time IL We hadn happened 10 sLatii-
hTe noon IT, The willows are so thlcA
that I'D is kind Of hard 20 force way in
ar. Reading and 4 didn't stop only "a lew
minutes after discovering the dead man
Z noticed that he had black soIl mar
on one side of his head ana remember
thinking Do funny that lt should stay tnat
way when he fell
Il fell the mans arm and it was warm
The blood that had soaked into ms Fedora
and that had run out OF ms mouth was
stiU warm. The body couldn't nave been
there all night because the clothes we're
dry and 90 raiued hard the night before
There was kind of a steam coming or his
clothes
young Browns assertion chat the DodE
was warm and could not have been ODD the
field I'M uighf ls further borne ont bF
Mrs. Emma Iurpln statement pm re-
gard TO hearing two shots carly Tuesday
morning. go,
s'If was Just a few minutes after So
said Mrs Turpiu- chat I heard me SHOTS
know the difference between pistol ana
shotgun reports ana iAes1 80 1'i, ,,.5-1.t
en- Our house IS puit 4 rev Huils5
yards from the spot i thoueht hotiii4s
~ the shots until Z heard of the BODY be-
me exact spot where the remains were
discovered is about fifty rods south OF
Winchester road ana aDout LaiL q LlliEE
west oil the Highland Boy smeltef Ioad
that rims 10 Murray Tle snclter p
about three-quaTters ~ q sniie 5oulneast-
CTnea a. where the body Was FOUND 81 a
ditch the banks of which are coNefe.
with a heavy willow growth d. p a pi-tte
little freuuented, being almost luac-tH7ioi
because OF the Wir3 trees.
Saw Three Strange Men,
The Statements of aIrs. Henry hinches-
Ter ~ me effect that snc saw thfee
strange men enc of whom appeared 20 %