Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-15
GOR|NG MYSTERY
LEFT UNSOLVED
Police Department Accepts Story
OF LandIady and Drops
Investigation.
SON CHARGES MURDER.
SAYS His Father Did Not Fall Down
Stairs. But Was Killed and
Then Robbed.

ms pite OF the fact that Edmund r
Goline demanded a rigid official inves-
ugation into the circumstances sur
rounding the mysterious dea5h Of his
father Ernest T.. Gorng. who sue
cumbed last Monday night 10 injuries
received IN the Crescent rooming
house. 329 south state street. chief OF
Police Barlow has refused TO take any
action Ia the matter. and the case has
been dropped for good. as far as the
police department 81 concerned.
Last Monday night a hurry call was
sent tn 10 the police station from the
rooming house. and the patrol wagon.
iu response 20 this cali went To- the
place and returned with Gorng 10 the
city prison, where he was placed in the
emergency hospital Dr. r b. steele.
the police surgeon. was called IN. and
later Dr. Steele signed GER
tihcats to the effect that he
had died of fracture of the skull AZ
the base of the brain. The aged man
had also sustained q 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 poice, Monday night. gave out
the report which had been given to
them by the iandiady or the place. "a
the effect that the old man had regis
tered az the Crescent rooming house
under the name OF Judge" Harper:
that tho landlady and other habitues
OF the place had seen him drunk there
for three days previous 20 the time OF
his injury; that he had occupied room
10. that he had fallen over the hanisters
from the third 20 the second floor
SON MAKES INVESTIGATION.
Last Saturday. II was stated after
an investigation by young Goting and
his friends that the landlady had de-
liberately lied 20 the police and that
the police had swallowed her story
without making due investigation
Chief Barlow had accepted the land
lady's statements The landlady last
Saturday admitted that Gorlng 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 to
the police. that she was not present
when GofinE came in to the rooming
house; that her assistant Msudie
Darke. had assigned Goring TO room
g. on the third floor. about o'clock.
MDNNAN uAElts lilhA NJ = % CLOCK. she
heard a noise and on going out she
found Gnrlng lying al 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 he could
not hold an inquest, because Or NJ
y. Stewart, the head Of tho board uf
health. had told him that he had made
an investigation and that mo- further
official action was necessary.
Edmund r Gorng. the SON visited
the chief OF police Saturday. after the
latter had returned from duck hunt
ing trip and Insisted that thorough
Investigation be made, and that the po-
lice should compel the landlady OF the
Crescent roomng house and Maudie
Darke 10 explain their conflicting state
ments regarding tho case.
40 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 Co take
any action whatsoever. He says that
Goring death was an "accidenr' He
does NOT explain the fact that the
landlady told the police that GOring
had been drunk In her house for
three days previous to the accident"
which was false that she said GorinR
had registered as Judge" Harper,
which was false. that Goring had oc-
cupied room 30. which was false
instead OF trying 10 get az the truth
NJ the matter, and unraVelinR the
highly suspicious circumstances con-
nectcd win the case. chief of Police
BARLOW ignored Young Gorings de-
mand for official action and lightly
waved or the young mans hat allega-
tions that his father had been drug
ged. rolled" robbed OF $40 and that
the aged man was murdered