In 1965, a 59-year-old section hand for the Great Western Railroad was arrested in Wendover for murder. Melvin J. Hurley made an offhand remark to a longtime friend that unraveled his world.
It turned out that Hurley, whom everyone in Tooele County knew as a hard worker, a loving husband and stepfather, was actually Tilton James Hall, wanted by the state of West Virginia for escaping from a prison road gang in 1948 where he was serving 99 years for the 1930 murder of his mother.
Hall was extra...
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