The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
MURDER OF MARSH
REMAINS MYSTERY
Gate Keeper at Lynn Believes
He Saw Soap Manufacturer
in Auto With Two Men.
WAS BEING HELD IN CAR
Two Women Mentioned in
the Case, but Neither Ap-
pears to. Be Implicated.
VAS BEING HELD IN CAR
Ev International News Service.

Ey International News Service.
LINN. Mass, April 13.-An amazing
disclosure in the great Linn tragedy
came tonight, Amos r. Potter, rail
way gate keeper. whose station is near
the spot where tho body Of George Z
Marsh. the wealthy soap manufacturer,
was found Friday morning, furnished
it.
Potter declares be saw an automobile
at that point: that it contained three
men. two OF them holding the third in
the cur.
II believe the third man was Marsh
and that he was dead,' said Potter
with great positivcness.
Potter's statement is considered by
the authorities at work on this, the
greatest Of all New England mysteries,
as perfectly reliable and the police
hone it may have q material bearing
in its solution.
In the murder of Marsh, the police
of this city and state have presented
for solution one of the most perplexing
problems that New England ever has
brought forth.
Mystery Unsolved.
Mr.. Marsh was slain. according to
Medical Examiner Pinkham. between 7
and o clock last Thursday night. His
body, pierced by four bullets, was
found Friday morning. But tonight the
police practically are no nearer the so.
luton OF the mystery.
The search of the police for a pos
sible woman factor in the case has
mentioned. So far as one of them is
concerned, it never has been seriously
considered that she was involved The
other, Mrs. Jane Carney, has known
Mr.. Marsh for more than twenty years.
There was rumor some years ago that
Mr.. Marsh intended to marry her, but
he denied If. She has fully satisfied the
nohce that she is IN no way implicated
iu the crime.
Outside OF Potter's statement, the
police have not one tangible clew So
far as known Mr.. Marsh had not an
enemy. Nor had he any intimate
friends. His brother Caleb, two years
his Junior. was his only chum and the
two were inseparable.
Last Seen Alive.
George Marsh was seen about Linn
Thursday afternoon. A few minutes
before q O'Clock he was seen half
block from his home. walking toward
it. He never reached there and the
next morning his body was found be-
side the boulevard running from Linn
toward Boston. The police believe he
vas taken there in an automobile. They
do not know where he was killed, nor
when, except for the estimate of time
gwen by the medical examiner after
the autopsy.
Thev have followed end after end Of
the skelu which looked as if it might
lead TO something and every effort has
ended in disappointment. Now they
have only two theories. no facts, be-
vond the one that Marsh was mur-
dered.
Rewards aggregsting $4,000 were Of
fered today for the arrest and convic-
ton of the slayers. Half Of this amount
was offered by the Boston American,
$500 by the city of Linn through May
or Gonners, and $500 by the Marsh
family. It is expected that this will be
increased by James Marsh, the muir
dered man S son. when he reaches here
from California, unless the slayers have
been run down before he arrives.