The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-03

during the night. The family Physl'
clan WAS present TO attend 10 the WON
en- in the household. who were suffer
ing from severe shock. and he Informed
INC that Mr.. Temple had been killed by
q pistol wound in the forehead. !
looked of the dead man aud saw Just
above the temple a small hole which
looked bike the wounds | had seen made
in the head by bullets, and | took it for
granted that the ply sician was correct,
! had murder then upon my hands,
as well as the robbery. which ouly be
came an incident in the Investigation
HI followed the usual form. which 10 a
second nature iu the detective. of look
ing over the details Of tho robbery, to
see if The work had been done b. cX-
perls or chance visitors. ! hunt~l high
and low about the premises. and ] could
not find the, slightest indication as TO
how The thieves had gained entrance.
| had IL upon the words Of the servants
and several members Of the family that
every window and door had been found
locked IN the morning. when they had
examined the house, with the exception
Of the window ON the second floor over
the plaza. and this was never locked.
." II would not have given any good
second story men trouble TO have
reached the window by climbing from
the etoup. but there were no scratches
anyw here TO show that this plan of
entrance had been adopted The work
on the safe showed clearly that first
class men had been on the trick. and
the lock had been operated by knock.
ING out the spindle of rhc combination
and working tho tumhers. The bur
glarproot compartment had becu bat
tered in by some system that ! was
not familiar with. and il was n wonder
to me that tho noise hal not hcon heard
by everybody in tho house.
MIR. Temple 5 body had been found
in the dining room adjoining the of
fec. and hIs appearance indicated that
he had been dead several hours. He
was dressed only in his night shirt, and
there were several slipht black and blue
marks Oh his shoulder and back which
might have come from fall His bed
clothes wcrc not disturbed any more
than n person wonld ordinarily disturb
thcrl i'm getting ont OF led and ]
could not sec any reason Tor his going
downstairs without hi. clothes. or, at
least barefootcd. 4 peculiar circum
stance was that he had two large re-
volvers in his room, and thcv were
found whore they were usually kept
II naturally struck me. that II hc had
nSblu IHleN'S NOrhlHE III me lpN''
part OF the house he would have armed
himself, before starting out 60 make
an Investigation. ANY sane man would
have taken that prccautlou. MorcuvcT
| could nc' understand how q pistui
shot could have been fired in tho house
without arousiuo tho family. The safe
had been cleaned out entirely. and even
papers had been taken which were ~
no value or use to ANY one except Mr
Temple. | thought a few days later
that | had found Il solution To many
OF tho peculiar circumstances, but in
fact was miles away from the truth
"After Mr. Temple was buried
search was made for his viii. and one
was found in his desk in his Office in
this city. II was dated ten years be
fore his death, and il gave Robert TEN
pie the oldest boy one-third of the es
tate. after providing for Mrs, Temple,