Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-12
yrlins We're Julius Weber His
WIFE, Their Daughter and
Their Son,
rgFyrHE HOME WAS BURNED.
~. San Of the Family Rcmlins-No
tIu to Perpetrators Of 'he
Awful Deed.

vtom cal. Nov. il-lt Is now
,, ba. Julius Weber, his wife,
.l. fo.v.m-ull daughter Bertha and
"., .or man, aged years were mul'
"5 ms. night by an unknown as
.tb1 IRE TO the home IN an
,n cover up his crime, Before the
a.nl made any great Roadway the
,t.s.o. Oh. mother and her two chill
NJ, ror. rescued from the burning
t..., Mv Weber and her boy were
m alive but dled almost as soon as
nsyrelcfod the abr.
A., ,amnatou OF the bodies showed
n,, Mrs Webor ana the children had
,.o murdered before the fire had
,.r started. The daughter had been
.mJ by pistol wound, as had been
yr weber on the boys head were
ueraI deep cuts. lie had also been
shot,
An Efforts To- reach julius Weber, the
.bsr vh0 was also thought to be In
M bunmr house. were abandoned UNI
H today when O search was made IN
Al. burning embcrs, and his body was
moi I'm the bathroom OF the dwelling.
n. ,o, had been shot down before
rsIsff fu be consumed by the flames.
makes the death list as follows.
n.ms Weber aged as.
Vrs Julius Weber Al.
Bertha weber. their daughter 10.
pi1 Weber, son. IA
The body of Mr. Weber was 10 badly
hr1ed that It has been impossible to
,,su1u how often he was shot, II
IA, been ascertalnod beyond q doubt
blt the women were killed In one room
md their clothing set on fire aud they
as,e then dragged into the apartment
Where theIr bodies were discovered
one very peculiar circumstance OF the
tragedy Is that while the bodies OF the
mother and daughter were burned 10
some extent. the apartment IN which
Ny nere lying was not on fire when
n, dpmen broke into II, which showed
hltthey had been killed IN some other
pt0n Of the house, partially burned
ni then dragged into the room whore
hy were found
Aloph Weber. 20 years Old the only
surviving member Of the family left
h. house shortly before the crime was
discovered He says that when he left
D family was AN well and In good
spirits. entirely without apprehension
o Impending harm
DE declares he has no suspicion and
no, me slightest idea as 10 how the
house was set on Ere,
The physicians are holding an au-
tory over the baily.charred remains
q julius Weber Coroner Shepard and
Shaft Keena and District Attorney
Robinson are making a thorough inves-
tIn,IOn OF The tragedy They are adj
unc1g no theories, but the facts and
circumstances would indicate that Il
VAS murder either the work Of a mad
man or cool. calculating. premedi-
nti crime The robbery theory is
about exploded, as no incentive has
BEEN found
Mcph Weber the son. who Is the
only member Of the family alive, talks
bl' little, but to the coroner and u
,ht sheriff De said that he did not think
ho motive was either robbery or re-
re1ge When asked II he had a theory
be said he had but would not give It.
We DID say reluctantly that his father
bod violent temper
Tho hoy said that ne left the house
ABOUT $3.50 ana came down town, pur-
chased a pair OF trousers and did sew
ua other brands When he went 70
he One DE dropped his old trousers
NhIth were in the bundle IN the burn.
Ms building Tie Is now at the home OF
deputy County Treasurer John Adams
lolHs Weber was very quiet fellow,
great reader and thinker, a chess
Mayer palm.s, and dyspeptlc
Two @.caIIber rifles were found but
lh' bullets extracted from the bodies
wee Of G-oIibcr The officers are
"Nng Tor Che pistol from which they
were iIed The inquest has been adj
plIuel 70 await the result OF the au-
i0psy
julius Weber was retired brewer
ana was possessed Of considerable
Neallh. Tho family lived IN a hand
@ne nome here and Mr. Weber pos
@el valuable property IN Oakland
W. he Was about As years old, Mrs.
weber was a years old.
I9e autopsy tonight on the body
Ar Webe disclosed a bullet
wound through the heart. The dla-
ne'er of th' wound was the same as
wa ~ The bodies Of Mrs. Weber and
A.s Weber who were shot with a SO.
~y.oIe weapon. owing TO the fact that
w Weber, body was badly burned
1o bullet could be found. Two %.
4loFe ufes were discovered IN the
leuse but mo- trace OF 32.callbre
PISTOL The opening session Of the I'm.
o.