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Show "GUNPLAY" MAXWELL IS DEAD Notorious Gun Man Draws on Deputy Sih&riff, But is Too Slow and Falls With Revolver in Hand. Price, Utah. "Gunplay" (C. L.) Maxwell was shot and instantly killed here Monday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Ed. Johnston. Maxwell was out looking for trouble and drew his revolver first, but Johnston was the quicker of the two, firing two shots through Maxwell's breast, one ot which passed through his heart. "Gunplay" Maxwell was one ot the last of the "bad men" of the frontier .imes. it is said that his parents were well-to-do people living in the outklrts of Boston, where his father iwned a hotel. Maxwell became involved in-volved in a saloon brawl when a v'outh and soht a companion, who iied. Maxwell fled to the west, landing land-ing in southeastern Wyoming at the fine of the cattle wars of more than wenty years ago. Cattle rustling proved his forte and he drifted to the southwest for a time, returning to .Wyoming in 1892, where he continued his business of cattle stealing with gambling as a side line. After serving a term in the Wyoming Wyom-ing penitentiary for grand larceny, he Jrifted to Utah, and was employed by he Utah Fuel company as a guard luring the strike of ' coal miners In 1902. Maxwell, with an accomplice, attempted at-tempted to rob the bank at Sprlng-ville, Sprlng-ville, Utah, in the summer of 1898, and an employe of the bank was killed. A posse chased Maxwell and his companion up one of .'the canyons near-by and Maxwell surrendered at the approach of the officers, while his companion was shot in resisting arrest. ar-rest. Maxwell was tried and sentenced sen-tenced to eighteen years in the state penitentiary. Five years later he assisted as-sisted the officers in preventing an uprising in the prison and was pardoned. par-doned. It is claimed that since he ha; been at liberty Maxwell has been Implicated Im-plicated In at least a dozen hold-ups; two jewelry robberies, one stage rot) bery, and has passed several hundreds hun-dreds of dollars' worth ot worthless checks, escaping prosecution in near ly every instance and conviction in every case. Maxwell's character is so well known that there is little doubt but what the verdict will be one of justifiable justi-fiable homicide, as he had uttered many threats against Johnston, and a dozen other citizens of Price. |