Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-05
u,,y Conflicting Circumstances
fo,brond the Tragedy 10
Mystery
BoARD OF EDUCATION MEETING
o.,rloo Man Dies Ia Hospital
'V,ddIug-OpsratIou for Appen'
dleIus-News Briefs

c,oJaerabe mystery seems to sur
VA tho Identity OF the man founc
,.o,,d I'm a box car In the depoI
IA. on Tuesday evening So many
'sslc,lpe circumstances have deyel'
,,.1 during the last "a hours that II
',.ms impossible to explain them ex'
IN, on the theory that there were two
=, named Fred Scott. 1t is pretty
r,n established, however that the
,,a.red man is not Fred Scott Of
u.,,b Ida. although one OF the
..,,hors Of the Hatch family Joseph
cos called az the undertaking parlor'
.,,s,day and gave as his opinion that
!Ss dead man was the Fred Scott OF
Hatch - 9 brakeman
..mei Harrison told the officers that
man boarded the train at cache
I,ocGon Tuesday last and rode at
iad a part OF the distance toward
osisn This train was the one that
tionsbt me car In which the dead body
,,, mund into this city. He said that
M man was intoxicated and his de-
s,Intion fitted the dead man exactly,
sy,6 10 crippled hand and a rag on
bis finger ,-.,. .,..a
Win Scott on the sewer claim that the
dsod man worked with them but he
rss smployed there only short time,
anal Is possible that they might have
ben mistaken. d.,
lmportapt information was furnished
m " c. Howarth OF the w. o, Kay
company which employed Fred Scott az
cache Junction loading grain He Is
quite positive that the dead man Is not
Scott and does not resemble him at all.
Hcwirh saw Scott for the last time a
week ago last Monday. -.
post norton examination made las'
f.fhl showed that the bullet had not
passed through the heart as at first
supposed, although II had passed near
bh. II would therefore have been
possible for the man TO have been shot
soon after leaving Cache Junction and
live until a short time before the body
was found. This would account for the
body being warm when turned over TO
The undertaken The physicians max
Ing Inc autopsy found no food I'm the
stomach, which As a strong indication
that this man Is not the Scott who left
No ogden hotel with Stone about 2
o'clock the day Of the murder.
Another circumstance tending TO
show that the dead man had not been
n Ogden long was the bit Of paper
found under the swaziland of his hat.
THIS paper was a portion OF the Salt
lake Herald. first edition Of oct. 80.
The first edition We are informed, Is
not circulated or sold IN ogden, but
calculates in Idaho and Cache county
only II therefore seems probable that
th're we're Two men named Scott Stone.
Ne man arrested for the murder, and
Who admitted that he was with Scott at
lacIock ON the day Of the crime. was
lilerday taken TO the undertaking
R'ors and shown the dead body He
Immediately said that that was not
m Scott he knew that he had never
sen this man before. The officers are
nov convinced that he Is telling the
ug,h. and he VIII likely be released In
day or two.
81 another clue is furnished by
ufnmen, who say that the man an
MeIlng The description Of the dead
,aifh told them az Cache Junction
,nlt hls name was James Lynch, that
m formerly worked IN a livery stable
~ anaconda, and that several years
,S Dc was coachman for Walker
N'thers In Salt Lake.
DIED ~ HOSPITAL
Harry Simpson OF Rawllns. Wyo..
s S1 thursday night at the Ogden gen
Ii' hospital of pulmonary troubles.
a. az p gas manager Of The railroad hotel
= 5 ava" 'lNs ana arrived In Ogden only
s,, .sy on Two ago. coming here for
sl, vla.leht lie was promoted 10 the no.
,o ',,H az, as manager Of the Rawlins hotel
eoS S,y uIne ago from a position in the
ns ,s,.'t,s IIy department. of the com
Tsi nto,eI Ia Ogden Mr. Simpson was
ra0ro,@ss o ,. ana popular among the