Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-15
COR|NG MYSTERY
LEFT UNSOLVED
Police Department Accepts Story
OF Landlady and Drops
Investigation.
SON CHARGES MURDER.
says Ills Father Did Not Fail Down
stairs. But Was Killed and
Then Robbed.

ms pite on the fact that Edmund +.
Corning demanded rigid official iuves-
tigation into the circumstances sur
rounding the mysterious death Of his
father Ernest r. Goiing. who sue
cumbed last Monday night 70 injuries
received in the Crescent rooming
house, $50 south state street. chief OF
Police Barlow has refused 10 take any
action IN the natter and the case has
been dropped for good. as far as the
police department is concerned.
Last Monday night hurry call was
sent IN TO the police station from the
rooming house and the patrol wagon.
iu response to this cali went 10 the
place and returned with Goring 10 the
city prison. whore he was placed i'm the
emergency hospital Dr r. -. steele.
the police surgeon. was called iu. and
after Goring died two hours
later Or Steele signed GER
tificats 70 the effect that he
had died OF fracture % the skull at
the base of the brain The aged man
had also sustained terrible blow on
the front part OF the head so that the
scalp WAS peeled over the skull for
several inches leaving the bone Of the
skull exposed
The police, Monday night. gave out
the report which had been given 70
them by the landlady Of the place. Ca
the effect that the old man had rpgis-
tered at the Crescent rUomiug house
under the name Of Judge" Harper:
that the andlady and other habitues
Of the place had seen him drunk there
Tor three days previous TO the time OF
his injury that he had occupied room
no. that he had fallen over the banisters
from the third 90 the second floor
SON MAKES INVESTIGATION.
Last Saturday. Il was stated. after
an investigation by young Gorine and
his friends. that the landlady had de-
lberateiy lied 10 the police and that
the police had swallowed her story
without making due Investigation.
CHIEF Barlow had accepted the land
ladys statements The laudlady last
Saturday admitted that Goring had
not registered under the name OF
Judge Harper, she stated that she
had made a mistake IN giving her
first report Of the circumstances 10
the police. that she was not present
when GOring came In TO the roonlng
house; that her assistant Maudie
Darke. had assigned Gorng to room
9 on the third floor about o'clock,
heard noise. and ON going out she
found Goring lying at the bottom Of
the stairs head down. with a pillow
In his arms and that his head was
bleeding
Justice of the Peace and Acting
Coroner Hanks stated that DE could
not hold an inquest because Dr NJ
Y, Stewart the head Of tho board of
health. had told him that he had made
4ftt fI4raat fs.s,
official action was necessary.
Edmund r Goring, the son. visited
the chief Of police Saturday. after the
latter had returned from a duck hunt
ing trip and Insisted that a thorough
investigation be made, and that the po-
lice should compel the landlady OF the
Crescent rooming house and Maudle
Dar1e 10 explain their conflicting state
ments regarding the ease.
NO INVESTIGATION.
Chief OF Police Barlow has made no
personal Investigation. He simply re-
ceived the reports Of the police. who
had swallowed the landlady's story.
As this mysterious case stands now.
chief Of Police Barlow refuses To take
any action whatsoever lie saws that
Gorings death was an accident" He
does nor explain the fact that the
landlady told the police that GOring
had been drunk In her house for
three DAYS previous 90 the accident"
which was false, that she said Goring
had registered as Judge" Harper.
which vas false. that Goring had oc-
cupied room 10. which was false.
Instead OF trying 10 get az the truth
of the matter. and unraveling the
highly suspicious circumstances con-
nected with the case. chief Of Police
BARLOW ignored young Goring's de-
mand for official action. and lightly
waved or the young mans Hat allega-
tiong that his father had been drug
ged, rolled" robbed of $40 and that
the aged man was murdered