The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-05
SUICIDE MADE TO
APPEAR MURDER
Love Disappointment Tragedy Crowded Into Life of
S E. Turner the Young Man Found Dead at Devils
Slide-Carefully Planned Effort to Make
the Crime Look Like Murder.

After deliberately manufacturing
every bit of circumstantial evidence
possible 10 Indicate murder S Z, Tur-
'ner, the ticket agent found dead at
Devils Slide Saturday morning, cool
ly turned his own automatic revolver
upon himself and committed suicide.
This is the conclusion of Union
Pacific Detective George Lewis, who
tigation of the mysterious death of
the Union Pacific agent
When the body of Turner was dis
covered In the station early Saturday
morning no one suspected that the
young mans death was due to any
pther cause than murder. The Of
llco furniture was upset, the dead
mans clothing disarranged, and the
safe open, the combination having
been tampered with. The agents
watch had been torn from his vest
and the chain broken A bullet hole
showed in the right temple and the
automatic revolver Of the agent was
found several feet from the body. The
door of the station was partly open.
Immediately after the finding of the
body word was sent out TO the Og-
den police and the authorities at 9TH
er points along the Union Pacific line,
giving notification of the supposed
murder. All of the pawn shops and
second hand stores in this city were
notified to be on the lookout for the
dead mans watch.
At Bountiful three men, who had
passed through Devils Slide and who
could not give very satisfactory ac-
count of themselves. were locked up
on the suspicion that they might know
something of the killing of the agent
and the robbery OF the station. This
was the condition of things when
Detective Lewis was sent TO the scene
Saturday morning.
Lewis found that only one bullet
had been fred from the automatic gun
lying on the floor He also learned
that the gun was the property Of the
agent, The Office was small and a
careful search of the walls, the floor
and the ceiling OF the place failed to
disclose any bullet holes. The thought
swept through the detectives mind
that Turner might have committed
suicide. He secured permission to
have the bullet taken from the dead
mans head. The leaden pellet was
steel capped and was similar to the
bullets remaining in the automatic re-
Yolyer which belonged to the agent.
Next, the detective learned that the
domestic life of the dead man had
not been satisfactory. 1t was learned
that he was receiving letters from a
girl In the east. despite the fact that
he had two months ago married
girl at Morgan. with whom he was liv-
! ing at Devils Slide.
Further investigation brought out 4
number of interesting facts in the
young mans life which were not gen.
orally known. According to the In.
NeSugation made by Lewis, Turner.
though but % years of age, had been
married a few years ago and later
divorced Before coming west he had
engaged himself TO marry a Girl in the
east but at the same time was the
cause OF another girls deep sorrow.
1t was under these conditions that
Turner came west About the first of
July he secured the position at Dew.
lis Slide. and in anticipation of his
marriage he rented a house and bur
chased the necessary furniture to be-