The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-24
JURY IN HEASL|P
CASE SAYS MURDER
Few New, and No Important,
Facts Brought Out in
Testimony.
SUICIDE THEORY HAS BEEN
GENERALLY ABANDONED
Some Unimportant Corrections
Made in Statements 0rigi-
nally Given Press.

"We, the jury, fnd that Irving Hea
slip came to his death between O. NJ.
July 16, 1906, and 6:15, July 90, 1906
at the hands of some person or persons
unknown, and by what means or
weapons to the Jury unknown; but, nE
said jury believes, from the evidence,
feloniously,"
The foregoing is the verdict arrived
at by jury composed Of 0. j. Bourne,
foreman, salesman at Mullett g store;
O. p, Miller, bishop of the Mormon
church. and r. ]. Williams, a carpenter,
in the case of the old soldier who was
pulled from an irrigating canal at Cres-
cent last Friday afternoon.
Few Additional Facts.
The testimony furnished few facts
not already published. Deputy Sheriff
Joseph Sharp, who has boen investigat-
ing the case, gave it as his opinion
that the body had not floated moro than
q mile from the point where 1t was
placed in the water. Ho stated, also,
that he had made careful search
along the banks of the canal but had
been unable to find any stones similar
TO those found in the pockets of the
dead man, except at point near the
home Of a farmer named Kemp.
Opinions vary as to the Importance
OF this information. It may tend TO
show that the murder was committed
at or near the Kemp ranch, but its i'm
portance will depend upon the discov-
cry of other evidence tending to sup
port tins theory.
DR.. Caldcrwood was a witness before
the Jury. but told nothing that The
Tribune has not already published, ex-
cepJ that the dead man s eyes gave no
Indication that poison had been admin
istered TO him.
Suicide Theory Abandoned.
Everybody except a few stubborn
persons who do their thinking with
their feet have abandoned the silly
that no man could have tied his own
hands and feet as IIeaslips were tied
means anything. They can see him in
the act of tying himself hand and foot
and then hopping off to the pool in the
canal where he met death. II is posi-
lungs of the dead man were inflated
with air IS enough to prove with abso
lutte conclusiveness that he could not
have drowned. Men drown in water,
not in mir, and everybody who thinks
knows that Irving Heaslip met death
IN the open air.
Bruise Oil the Neck.
In face of the deartb of known facts
upon which TO build a theory as to
the exact manner In which death was
dealt TO the old soldier, there is moth
ing to do at this time but surmise
that the bruise found across the back
of his neck was caused by a fatal
blow. The doctors say this blow might
have caused a shock sufficient to pro
duce death In the absence of other
apparent causes, there is nothing TO do
but decide that it did produce death.
1t developed at the inquest that Hea-
slips purse was not left at home, as
his landlord, j, +. Vincent, at first
stated. Vincent testified that he had
been mistaken in this matter; that the
purse had been taken away by its own
ner. His watch. however, had been left |
at the house. Vincent found it in the |
pocket OF pair of trousers hanging |
in his lodger IS room
Another Error Corrected.
Vincent corrected another error in |
his original statements to the press re- |
porters. Instead OF $50 which he
gave as the amount Of Heaslip's month |
ly pension allowance, the vouchers |
show that he received but S4O.25
Investigations are still in progress, |
but owing to the lack Of known facts |
there is next to nothing upon which to |
hang hope that the slayers of Irving
Heaslp VIII ever be brought to jus.