Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-04 | Page 5 | Lawyer Slain from Ambush

LAWYER SL SLAIN IN FROM AMBUSH Killed While Driving Automobile unto Auto mobile in Park in Com Coni- pany party Tr With ith Girl New York Sept 3 Dwight D Dwight P. P Dil Dilworth worth a lawyer was shot an and killed tonight while In an automobile In Van Cortlandt park with a young oung woman companion Two men with caps drawn closely over their foreheads sprung sprung- from the darkness In front o othe of the car when It stopped near some golf ol links an and fired thed three shots shot according to the young woman who ho said she was Miss 1 Mary a 1 fc 19 years r ars old Miss lIss said she e ran nearly a amile amile amile mile after e eluding the assassins before she came upon upon a railroad flagman in inthe inthe in the park paik who escorted her to the Kings Kings' Bridge police pollee station Miss accompanied b by the coroner an as assistant district attorney and several detectives hurried back to the scene of ot the shoot shooting ng but no trace was found of oC the assailants Dilworth had three bullet wounds in hl his bod body Dilworth was fort forty years old and lived in Montclair N N. J J. J According According- to Miss fiss he 1 invited her hor for a rl ride o through the tho park and the they ha had stopped but a moment when the two men appe appeared red in the roadway comman commanded com corn man e-d e them to Throw up their hands and shot Dilworth Wife Uc IH ts Kansas CIl City Sept Z Mrs Grace Dilworth wife wiCe of or Dwight H H. Dilworth killed in Van Cortlandt park in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York tonight is visiting relatives es in Kansas City She was prostrated on receipt of oC news of ot her husbands husband's death cath She said she did not know Miss Mc Mc- tho young oung woman who jas as with Dr Dilworth when he was shot