Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-09
INQUEST over
SLAIN OFFICER
officers Still in Dark as to Muir
derer but Are Given Hope by
Statements of HartWeII.
HERRIck TESTIMONIAL.
ministerial Association Elects Officers
enlargement of S. +. shops
-NNoodmcn Initiated.

ogden, Dec. 9.-After hearing the
evidence introduced at the Seymour L..
Clark inquest, which was held yester-
day afternoon before Judge Murphy, in
the police court, the jury brought in a
verdict last evening to the effect that
the said Seymour Il. Clark, came to
his death at Uintah, Weber county,
Utah, Nov; 81, 1908. from the effects
of gunshot wounds; said wounds being
inflicted by a revolver in the hands
of n person to the Jurors unknown"
Most OF the uay was occupied IN
hearing the witnesses. the chief one
being Deputy Sheriff Murphy, who was
with the late Deputy Sheriff Clark OIL
the night of the murder. Among the
other witnesses We're the officers who
had been working upon the case, those
that visited Uintah on the night Of
the murder The testimony all went
to show how utterly in the dark the
officers are in regard to the murderer.
One witness VINO gave much valuable
testimony for the state was H. S. Helm,
who testified that on the night OF the
murder he was beating his way to Og
den on a freight train and that when
the train reached Echo he alighted
from the cattle car he was riding in
and began running up and down near.
the depot platform to get warm, He
said that he noticed a young man
alight from Il box car ana ne addressed
him In II casual manner, to which
the stranger replied in a gruff Voice.
Helms description of the man tailed
with that given by Deputy Sheriff
Murphy o[ the murderer. It Is the
opinion of the officers that the man
whom Helm saw at Echo on the night
Of the murder and on the train. a car
of Which was robbed Of shoes. was
the man that killed Clark,
A remark that was dropped by James
Z Hartwell. the man who was taken TO
the hospital III a critical and uncoil-
scioils conditional last l'riGaS. has given
the officers new hope. Three times since
he was taken to the hospital Hart
well has been conscious and started to
tell how he WAS injured. That he was
struck upon the head byi.a blunt in
strument in the hands of the slayers of
Seymour Clark seems to be the general
belief of the officers. as there IL no
doubt Hartwell knows something OF his
assailants and the murderer of Clark.
Yesterday afternoon Hartwell became
semf@conscious and told two nurses of
his connection with the shoe business
in Denver Then he said, that shoe
deal was an awful thing--that shoe deal
was a--dirty affair. 1t vas These
broken statements by the injured man
lead the officers 10 believe that he
knows all the facts connected with the
murder, as it will be remembered that
on the night of the murder the muir
;'erer was sitting with six cases of shoes
which had been taken from a Union
Pacific freight train. The shoe deal
referred to by Hartwel is believed to
be one and the same. *
Since the statement made by Hart
well in regard to the Denver Shoe deals
the officers are OF the opinion that for
many months past box car thieves have
been stealing shoes from the Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line and
shipping the goods to Denver over the
Rio Grande Western and stealing from
the Rio Grande and shipping to Denver
over the Union Pacific. It IS the gem
crai belief that If Hartwell RECEIVERS his
mind that he will not only be able to
throw light on the Clark murder but
upon some OF the box car robberies
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