A day in early Brigham City:

On February 17, 1920, a man who was assumed to be associated with a burglary at the Leader Store was shot and killed near the bridge over the Box Elder Creek on 300 North (location in photo) as he tried to escape local authorities. As no one could recognize him, his body was placed in the window at Stohl’s furniture store (as they also had an embalming business and mortuary) for two to three days in hopes someone would. Fingerprinting was a new technology at this time and utilized in hopes of discovering his identity. This led to more confusion as he was positively identified by his wife, Mrs. Walter Taylor, but the fingerprints did not match. He was also identified as William Condro but his brother never made the trip to confirm the identity. He was also said to be Clyde Land but this was also refuted. The Record of Funeral indicates that the last identity was that of, "The husband of Lucile Parkin." A personal history noted that he was then buried in a pauper’s grave in the Brigham City Cemetery though newspaper and the record of funeral (included) state that his body was sent to be used by the medical school in SLC.

Click link for the details of the incident:

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=24362952&hl=identify%20remains%20stohl

Stohl Furniture Store (now Wells Fargo) roughly around the time of the story

Further back photo of the location (Stohl's was the north east portion of the building)

Site where the burglar was shot and killed

Record of Funeral- note the confusion on the identity of the individual.