The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-04

l,stsrv ms It was printed in the newspa-
ns at its worst q complex case OF corpse
vet it was never solved. and II finally
eFshe u the police books of the great city, in
snes' tsr opVVbSs %hsa there s9sN i, t mo-
il to be supposed that the police were at
c,ucs or motives or ideas concerning tho
contrary the motive was plain-to inc
. ldy had been stolen and was being held
AXIS 4 identity by band of professional corpse
ing. G, knew that their victim was the uaueh'el
oct On, rVandoyer But nevertheless. they were
lou Scame TO explaining how or by wnom the
red Zen committed.
- SIfand fully the queer details Which COM
s9e q story OF the crime it is necessary to go
.cu nrs Murcl VandoYer was. the only daugh-
Des wen Svandover Eastern capitalist and million
80 ~ hciress TO the Vandover millions and
kyounger society of her city. a brilliant
lie st,, a social position of great prestige were
70 rrotrsrsE by her ambitious iather, ana as con,
ender as sorely disappointed and angered when
s u, !, with handsome Martin Fagleby. Fagleby
81 eS.n u E Muriel was wilful and she married him
tthhsn thn live in q quiet little home In a modest
cIonsse here after three years Muricl grew sud
sen died. While she was lying in her coffin
led f,-.l some one apparently entered the room
I'D open the loose coffin lid and stole the
=, 1T the watchers who sat outside tho door
is s " when they entered the chamber In tho
hsass hss the coffin broken into and the body gone.
ihssss inSsss 6 another case OF that dastardy crime
'egatiSldants merely noting that the body was
lrsl stop to examine the premises nor seek an
nsAs to how tho body taken out OF the
i. .spoAr rried to spread the alarm. Tho dead
T.'s /. ser who had been summoned to the house
ms -, was the first on the scene after the alarm
en- Next came the broken-hearted hus-
p, er they summoned the police, and with the
-a@the newspaper reporters The sleuths of
cAl.e and of the press Instantly began to bend
TO the solution of the affair, but In vain.
vs-s s-sss mystery
ae7 sf place the manner in which the body had
.ua,. p nm the room suggested the impossible. The
hb I5f escape from the room, other than the
lnE as guarded by the death watchers, was
leh I'D door in the roof. This trap door led 10
y shsi In the garret was window leading out
\, n @ s' roof. from whence a ladder descended to
'1ss A'he body had evidently been raised through
vs1 q carried TO the window I'm the Gnrret, and
~ Il on the adjoining roof down the ladder
- where carriage had been waiting, The
ty'tv, of this feat were quite within the realms
PEE but the first stage, that of putting the
m m,1es the trap door was we'll nigh Impossible
~ ~ tLse accomplished this would have required
] ~ be supple as when in life' for the trap
al, and i:s entrance into the garret In
4 q tunnel-like passage. through which a per
eH Hawl and squlrm considerably before en-
'Har Sfected. body which had grown cold
Ihle be taken through this passage than
,,-. ave amoled through II. Yet this is what
Id = D. II there was anything in the evidence OF
'rdsr se body gone. stolen and II was only
ss1r that 1t could be taken from the room.
k.Arer put II In his paper: The body couldn't
o'ent)len In the suggested by the evil
sat 8 was"
= 3 - - e worked at the mystery for a month.
/. III absence of clues forced them to drop all
po,l. had been working on the supposltion that
,r- .yould soon write to the millionaire father
- big ransom for the return OF his daugh-
" Nothing OF the kind happened. No word
ssn-ly one concerning her. and the case was
,az
sAszzt me Story OIL now inc oooy oleappearcd. Be
ua Eand won Muriel VandoVer Martin Fagleby
he at is termed "a wild one He had gone
0 q ngmall fortune left him at the death OF his
ic'c AIKEN to drink and cards. and had finally
c company of refined bncklcgs who lived
shtt sanctioned by the police At the worst
81 career he had been arrested for forgery,
Fs .ntenced to four years in tho pcnitentiary,
d Sin was not Fagleby. In prison he became
lnt Eat the life he had been leading not
ne and when he once more was free he took