| Show UTAH BOY OY KILLED I IBY BY AN ASSASSIN IN n Hunter of if Charles N PI Johnson at ai I MOTHER LIVES AT BINGHAM t gAM FO 70 YEARS DABS W HE SUPPORT RAPPORT Charles N Johnson John sort who is was as mur murdered murdered dered under peculiarly atrocious cir circumstances circumstances at Dunton Colo Coto May Hay 21 was a Utah boy who had gone to Colo Col Colorado Colorado rado for the purpose of ot making a home for his mother nother and her other ehll chil children dien dren dr n The young cuing man had started a farm planted his seasons season s crops and gone to work on some mining claims foi for the purpose e of f raising money to send to his mother in Utah when hen he heva was waa va killed He was vae murdered early arly in the morn morning morning ing loe while en route to work While Charles If B Johnson passing trough through a heavy vy growth of willows fringing an tut old fish pond the young man was shot in the back and killed almost instantly He had had some trouble with a man named aed Joseph over the title to the land had d lived Jived on the theland theland land several years before ore but had not secured a title to it and when John Johnson Johnson I son took up the claim and filed upon it in proper form endeavored to drive the Utah boy bay out Johnson J n refused refu ed to give up his bis b J land and bitter feeling resulted Witnesses aea at the trial testified to paving bavins VIne beard heard frequently say he would flat fix John Johnson J eon son for far H It The jury jui returned a ver verdict dict of guilty in the second Cond lI degree and Bamide de was promptly sentenced toe to toe serve e thirty th to forty yeans at hard labor 1 bor In the Colorado Colordo penitentiary Was torn Born Ja Jn l County fh I The murdered map man had bad been the chief support of his bia mother and tHe younger er children for many years year He was born In hi Smithfield eld but lived most of 1 his 8 Ufe life at Sandy SaDdy where hee his hi moth mothers mothers ers bogie now BOW Is al she ehe is tem tern esi ing at atH ae There Tb re 0 tape are four our brothers and ba three sisters i iJ left J ft One brother about 24 1 years of I age e enlisted during the i ilean I lean Ican war went to t the Philippines re returned returned L turned and enlisted in the revenue cut I Iter I Iter f fter I ter service servi e About four tour years ears ago he I wrote his mother from San Francisco that he was about to sail Ball on a trane trans transport I port and since nee that time U me nothing has haa been heard beard of him I The dead boy was 21 U years y rs of age aile and is spoken of as a model young I man In every eV lJ respect His Hi mother is I heartbroken She lad had d been depending on Oft him to create a home for her so that her old age aae might not DOt be passed m in hard bard labor as her ber earlier life has Been n but his hip death has shattered battered her hope The father and mother separated sepa saps separated I rated some ome years go and since then the family has bas been dependent wholly I A upon the labors Jabon of the mother and the murdered son The young man was s a afine fine violinist In his J a last Jut letter to his mother written a couple of days be fore he was killed he be told of the im improvements improvements he had bad made madeen en his farm expressed the hope epe that he would soon have a little nUle money y to send end to her Mr and I Ith asked that th t his bis s Violin Ve W sent to him t so he h could earn a little extra money I by playing g at dances dancea He never nevel used liquor or tobacco and was as known chief t ly by Ms his J a Industry and devotion to his bIs I mother nr and her ber dependent dent children The mother r did not learn earn a of his death I until May 2 three days after the fu aeral when a letter let brought the sad d ae news to her I i |
