The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
Thirty Minutes After the Murder
nm Hays and Harry Thorne
Are Arrested Charged
With the Crime.
IS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED
BY MAN WHO WITNESSED SHOOTING
1 Established by the Police Department
Under the Direction of Detective
George A. Sheets.

|,ly minutes after George
\ years of age, grocer IN
besn murdered, while be-
Il his store, at 6l1 East
meet, Saturday night. at
John Hays, 26 years OF
.,ed at the Angelus Room
(aief of Detectives Sheets
, TIE police station, where
lively identified by the
|oyed at the store, a. f.
|si5 Sego avenue, as the
h done the shooting; by
F. Of 40 Sixth East street,
| men he had seen in front
|just before the shooting;
owen, of 667 East Third
sbo also had seen him
b store prior to the shoot
Hardrick Vowles, of 40
beet
4 the fact that the murder
good their escape and had
~ a mile between them
! Of the shooting and were
II their room, which they
Eiihont anyone connected
h department. seeing them.
Thin thirty minutes, and
Ratification are the most
ifees Of pure detective
|1tals of Utah crime.
||s sss accompanied 10 the
,u4s,ts by Chief of Police
! Dsieetives Chase and
' tncted with Hays, Harry
'cltiyely identified as one
'sr, and Burt Brown and
a pair of overalls, in
nd been dressed, and the
-ied strongly with powder
dlseoyered lying on the
I1crn and Hays. who were
I'd at the time of their
'ogh they had Just entered
had lain down on the bed
= Get Hands Up.
stll and Jacobsen were in
|afday night three men en-
Lts. One Of their number
isssell to hold up his
sstond man through the
handed Jacobsen TO hold
fsssell was slow in com
'aeobsen, seeing the three
'osi no time in obeying.
q commands, Fasscll held
when the man identified
'ed Jacobsen into the cor
Pfe near the doorway and
rp TO the back Of Fas-
Sanding behind the gro
n,h his hands above his
the gun into the left
HAYS commanded Fas.
',ef. Jacobsen then heard
NE gun and saw Fassell
~ The bold.up then rifled
contained about $50, a
oi which was in 50-cent
" gold pieces, a SO bill
change. The hold-ups
o. the store.
'seohsen saw Fassell fall
of the rear door of the
4 % y the home of w. Scott
East Fourth South street.
q revolver. Jacobsen
ssek 10 the store, but
~ tne hold-ups had gone.
ae met F. n. Boyd. a
~ sna solicitor employed at
lold the news of the
'epsen = then ran across tho
:. Al. Chandler, COS East
,steel, who went to the
but FasselI was dv-
nved and expired a few
ssts on Trail.
'a telephoned the Dolice
.ne patrol wagon, filed
/ ,ssa' to the nccne of the
4 CIV eS minutes later Chief
4 Vsgfge Sheets entered thc
y ssa was told Of the mur.
a sp.o the Office of Chief
sacets asked Chief Bar.
Ives Chase and Shultz
A ,t tt.a'' Stating that he was
'Tss TsSe men who committed
n D pour Iour went directly TO
4 onA;OSpining house. Chief
q iIucd ~ by his wonderful
|sivsSg 1g slight description of
, s fe,,. over the telephone.
IA H.. officers entered the
Hasss hays, Thorn. Brown
. br,s,SSg and Thorn were living
y tba' sa'oing hard. Between
>.ej r;,l ,,lli'eallbro gun. still
<es;SIn' SI',n "a powder smoke. On
M, w ~. .ne bed was the pair
by RRoasltively identified as
lke hays hays when no entered
,'yereJ % OF the overalls
"A TIu With wer mrd ,rl
''ik W.. and Hays were also
brosvs., brss mud. Hays was
Rhers IN. coat and n darl.
|'ita sSs thorn was searched
',sisl;Suoo was found in bii
ID sOg s0lgs..of Of two $40 cold
h snsll nsylIlfeHt pieces and The the
a, is, sts,.Ss change. Boyd. 5"i' tbr tbc
M ISea rIneeao that he had l. seen cen
vol niied with half.