The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-15
LIVES OF SUSPECTS
ARE INVESTIGATE

Otto Appleauist parted company Will
Joe Hillstrom at the Esilus house in Muir
ray at about o'clock. on Monday morn;
ing, according to information secured
yesterday by members of the police de
partment and the sheriff's force. This
was shortly after Hillstrom was taken
and after Hillstrom's wound bad been
| dressed by Drs. McHugh and Bird at Dr.
| McHugh's residence.
According TO the story told to officers
plequist was In tae front room Of the
house when Hillstrom and DR.. Bird Were
taken into the room through the kitchen,
John Esilus protested to the officers
that he was much surprised 10 see APP
plequist In the room He was eating IN
the kitchen when Dr. Bird and EiUstrom
entered. and showed them into the front
| room.
| the couch on which he was lying. Apple
| quist stayed In the house only long
enough 10 have a secret conference Win
IIillstrom; being left alone with him BY BY
Dr. Bird had gone. Shortly, Applequist
went from the front room into the htch-
en-, waere John and Ed Esllus were Sit
ting. He, told them that he was going
Esilus brothers TO the officers, and that
he was going to find work. John Esilus
sa id that Applequist mentioned Garfield
as his goal Both brothers protested,
was not very good time 10 start In
search Of work, but were met with tae
response that Applequist had been out Of
work so long that he was determined to
move and wanted an early start
The fact that the automatic pistol,
which both Drs McHugh and Bird saw
i'm the possession of Hillstrom, was not
found at the Esilus place has led to the
belief that the wounded man gave the
weapon TO Appequist When he was be-
ing attended at the home of DIR. Nc
Hugh, shortly before y O'Clock on sun
ster containing the pistol and laid It on
a table After his wound had been
dressed, IIIlstrom stuffed the pistol and
holster, into his hip pocket before being
taken TO the Esllus house by DR.. Bird
Dr. Bird was on his way home from
Garfield when he saw the light In DIR,
McHugh's residence and went In TO in
ciate was caused by anything in which
he might give professional assistance.
II was in this manner that he came to
be in position TO give the wounded man
lift to the Esilus home.
According to the story told by the
Esilus family. both Hillstrom and Apple
quist first visited them last August.
Both Ed and John Esilus became ac-
that time In place known as Happy
Hollow. near San Pedro, they told the
police. For short time Applequlst was
employed in Park City as cable rigser
Later he secured work as q structural
iron worker on the Eccles building in
Ogden Two weeks ago he applied for
membership in the Salt Lake local Of
the Structural Iron Workers. The story
that he had been employed on the Eccles
building In Ogden was proved correct
Yesterday by the findings OF Detectives
w. c, Geese and Herbert Leichter, who
were sent there to investigate The de-
tectves found that ne was known in
Ogden and that while employed there
STAYED at rooming house on Twenty
first street. Later, a picture taken of
the workmen on the Eccles building was
found in Salt Lake. 1t included Apple
quist.
According to the Esilus family. both
men visited the Esilus home frequent
ly. and STAYED two weeks in August.
"A week in September and for three days
Just before the murders.