From The Salt Lake Telegram (Salt Lake City, UT) - Saturday, September 5, 1936:
FAY'S STATION, Alabama (AP) - Chief Walter K. McAdory of the Alabama highway patrol announced the body of Wesley D. Amott, resettlement administration investigator, missing since Tuesday, was found today in a cotton field near here. The body was discovered ten feet from a lonely road. McAdory said Amott's head apparently had been crushed by a heavy weapon. A man giving the name of Frank Greene, 29, was arrested late Wednesday driving Amott's car near Demopolis, Alabama.
Amott, former L.D.S. missionary, whose family lives in Salt Lake City, disappeared at noon Tuesday when his superior in the resettlement office at Birmingham sent him to Montgomery, 100 miles south, to investigate a government case. A filling station attendant at Homewood, Alabama on the Montgomery highway, said he sold Amott gasoline at 1 p.m. Tuesday and at that time he was alone in his new automobile. Detective Chief G. C. Giles of Birmingham quoted Greene as saying he stole the Amott automobile in Birmingham and that he knew nothing of the missing man. Greene was arrested by state patrolmen after he was reported to have driven away from a Demopolis filling station without paying for gasoline.
A murder on an Alabama highway brought a tragic end Saturday to a romance that began in Salt Lake City. Wesley D. Amott, 32, a popular student at the university of Utah a few years ago was to have been married her at Christmastime. That Mr. Amott planned to return home this winter for his marriage was revealed by a grief-stricken brother, Eugene Amott, a department manager at the Tracy Loan and Trust Company.
Amott, his family here said, had found much satisfaction in his new position as n investigator for the federal resettlement administration, a job he was performing at the time of his death. He joined the R.A. last spring and according to his superiors in Birmingham was an exemplary employee with a fine record.
Mr. Amott was born at Cardston, Alberta, Canada, October 17, 1904 and came to Salt Lake City when a youth. He attended Emerson grade school, East high school, and the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1927. At the university he was prominent in both social and athletic circles winning a letter in track. He returned for study of law in the 1927-28 school year during which time he was cheerleader. He finished his legal studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and for a time practiced law there.
He served an L.D.S. church mission in England during which time he was M.I.A. head in the British Isles. Recently he was a clerk in the Washington office of Senator William H. King, a position he left to join the resettlement administration.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Charles Amott, brother Eugene Amott, another brother, Ralph Amott of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a sister, Mrs. Guy B. Rose of Montclair, New Jersey.
FAY'S STATION, Alabama (AP) - Chief Walter K. McAdory of the Alabama highway patrol announced the body of Wesley D. Amott, resettlement administration investigator, missing since Tuesday, was found today in a cotton field near here. The body was discovered ten feet from a lonely road. McAdory said Amott's head apparently had been crushed by a heavy weapon. A man giving the name of Frank Greene, 29, was arrested late Wednesday driving Amott's car near Demopolis, Alabama.
Amott, former L.D.S. missionary, whose family lives in Salt Lake City, disappeared at noon Tuesday when his superior in the resettlement office at Birmingham sent him to Montgomery, 100 miles south, to investigate a government case. A filling station attendant at Homewood, Alabama on the Montgomery highway, said he sold Amott gasoline at 1 p.m. Tuesday and at that time he was alone in his new automobile. Detective Chief G. C. Giles of Birmingham quoted Greene as saying he stole the Amott automobile in Birmingham and that he knew nothing of the missing man. Greene was arrested by state patrolmen after he was reported to have driven away from a Demopolis filling station without paying for gasoline.
A murder on an Alabama highway brought a tragic end Saturday to a romance that began in Salt Lake City. Wesley D. Amott, 32, a popular student at the university of Utah a few years ago was to have been married her at Christmastime. That Mr. Amott planned to return home this winter for his marriage was revealed by a grief-stricken brother, Eugene Amott, a department manager at the Tracy Loan and Trust Company.
Amott, his family here said, had found much satisfaction in his new position as n investigator for the federal resettlement administration, a job he was performing at the time of his death. He joined the R.A. last spring and according to his superiors in Birmingham was an exemplary employee with a fine record.
Mr. Amott was born at Cardston, Alberta, Canada, October 17, 1904 and came to Salt Lake City when a youth. He attended Emerson grade school, East high school, and the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1927. At the university he was prominent in both social and athletic circles winning a letter in track. He returned for study of law in the 1927-28 school year during which time he was cheerleader. He finished his legal studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and for a time practiced law there.
He served an L.D.S. church mission in England during which time he was M.I.A. head in the British Isles. Recently he was a clerk in the Washington office of Senator William H. King, a position he left to join the resettlement administration.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Charles Amott, brother Eugene Amott, another brother, Ralph Amott of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a sister, Mrs. Guy B. Rose of Montclair, New Jersey.
From The Salt Lake Telegram (Salt Lake City, UT) - Saturday, September 5, 1936:
FAY'S STATION, Alabama (AP) - Chief Walter K. McAdory of the Alabama highway patrol announced the body of Wesley D. Amott, resettlement administration investigator, missing since Tuesday, was found today in a cotton field near here. The body was discovered ten feet from a lonely road. McAdory said Amott's head apparently had been crushed by a heavy weapon. A man giving the name of Frank Greene, 29, was arrested late Wednesday driving Amott's car near Demopolis, Alabama.
Amott, former L.D.S. missionary, whose family lives in Salt Lake City, disappeared at noon Tuesday when his superior in the resettlement office at Birmingham sent him to Montgomery, 100 miles south, to investigate a government case. A filling station attendant at Homewood, Alabama on the Montgomery highway, said he sold Amott gasoline at 1 p.m. Tuesday and at that time he was alone in his new automobile. Detective Chief G. C. Giles of Birmingham quoted Greene as saying he stole the Amott automobile in Birmingham and that he knew nothing of the missing man. Greene was arrested by state patrolmen after he was reported to have driven away from a Demopolis filling station without paying for gasoline.
A murder on an Alabama highway brought a tragic end Saturday to a romance that began in Salt Lake City. Wesley D. Amott, 32, a popular student at the university of Utah a few years ago was to have been married her at Christmastime. That Mr. Amott planned to return home this winter for his marriage was revealed by a grief-stricken brother, Eugene Amott, a department manager at the Tracy Loan and Trust Company.
Amott, his family here said, had found much satisfaction in his new position as n investigator for the federal resettlement administration, a job he was performing at the time of his death. He joined the R.A. last spring and according to his superiors in Birmingham was an exemplary employee with a fine record.
Mr. Amott was born at Cardston, Alberta, Canada, October 17, 1904 and came to Salt Lake City when a youth. He attended Emerson grade school, East high school, and the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1927. At the university he was prominent in both social and athletic circles winning a letter in track. He returned for study of law in the 1927-28 school year during which time he was cheerleader. He finished his legal studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and for a time practiced law there.
He served an L.D.S. church mission in England during which time he was M.I.A. head in the British Isles. Recently he was a clerk in the Washington office of Senator William H. King, a position he left to join the resettlement administration.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Charles Amott, brother Eugene Amott, another brother, Ralph Amott of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a sister, Mrs. Guy B. Rose of Montclair, New Jersey.
FAY'S STATION, Alabama (AP) - Chief Walter K. McAdory of the Alabama highway patrol announced the body of Wesley D. Amott, resettlement administration investigator, missing since Tuesday, was found today in a cotton field near here. The body was discovered ten feet from a lonely road. McAdory said Amott's head apparently had been crushed by a heavy weapon. A man giving the name of Frank Greene, 29, was arrested late Wednesday driving Amott's car near Demopolis, Alabama.
Amott, former L.D.S. missionary, whose family lives in Salt Lake City, disappeared at noon Tuesday when his superior in the resettlement office at Birmingham sent him to Montgomery, 100 miles south, to investigate a government case. A filling station attendant at Homewood, Alabama on the Montgomery highway, said he sold Amott gasoline at 1 p.m. Tuesday and at that time he was alone in his new automobile. Detective Chief G. C. Giles of Birmingham quoted Greene as saying he stole the Amott automobile in Birmingham and that he knew nothing of the missing man. Greene was arrested by state patrolmen after he was reported to have driven away from a Demopolis filling station without paying for gasoline.
A murder on an Alabama highway brought a tragic end Saturday to a romance that began in Salt Lake City. Wesley D. Amott, 32, a popular student at the university of Utah a few years ago was to have been married her at Christmastime. That Mr. Amott planned to return home this winter for his marriage was revealed by a grief-stricken brother, Eugene Amott, a department manager at the Tracy Loan and Trust Company.
Amott, his family here said, had found much satisfaction in his new position as n investigator for the federal resettlement administration, a job he was performing at the time of his death. He joined the R.A. last spring and according to his superiors in Birmingham was an exemplary employee with a fine record.
Mr. Amott was born at Cardston, Alberta, Canada, October 17, 1904 and came to Salt Lake City when a youth. He attended Emerson grade school, East high school, and the University of Utah, from which he was graduated in 1927. At the university he was prominent in both social and athletic circles winning a letter in track. He returned for study of law in the 1927-28 school year during which time he was cheerleader. He finished his legal studies at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and for a time practiced law there.
He served an L.D.S. church mission in England during which time he was M.I.A. head in the British Isles. Recently he was a clerk in the Washington office of Senator William H. King, a position he left to join the resettlement administration.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Charles Amott, brother Eugene Amott, another brother, Ralph Amott of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a sister, Mrs. Guy B. Rose of Montclair, New Jersey.
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