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Show CHIEF km TWO DEPUTIES SHOT DOWN BY MEXICAN Officers Ambushed by Murderer, Who Fires Three Shots, Each Shot Dealing Death. Bingham, Utah. Chief of Police J. W. Grant, Deputy Sheriff Nephi Jensen Jen-sen and Deputy Sheriff Otto Witbeck. all of Bingham, were shot and killed Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock near Saratoga Springs, Utah, 'by Ralph Lo-paz, Lo-paz, a Mexican miner, who escaped from Bingham early Friday morning after he had slain John Baldez, a fellow fel-low countryman. Lopaz has escaped, the trail which he has made in the snow indicating that he has gone in a general southerly souther-ly direction toward Mosida, where it is thought he 'may make an effort to get into the Tintic mountains. The trail over which Lopaz is traveling trav-eling is covered "with three to foui-inches foui-inches of snow and it is thought that if he is not captured he will either starve or freeze to death. He is lightly light-ly clothed and has no provisions. Bloodhounds have been placed on the Mexican's trail. The officers were shot from ambush as they were trailing the' murderer. Lopaz fired but three shots, each one killing an officer. The fourth officer in the party fired several times at the fleeing Mexican, but is doubtful that he wounded him. Investigation shows that after the shooting, the Mexican, hidden in a trench in the greasewood, crawled for forty or fifty yards. Then, his footprints foot-prints show, he ran. But darkness descended de-scended upon the searchers, and for the night all hopes of following the trail were given up. The crime which was the cause of the murder of Chief Grant and Deputies Dep-uties Jensen and Witbeck, occurred at Bingham Thursday morning about 1 o'clock. Ralph Lopaz and John Baldez had an altercation at the cabin cab-in of the latter above the Highland Boy mine. Both were miners in the Yampa mine and had had a disagreement, disagree-ment, the exact nature of which could not be learned by their companies. |