Show mw i it i V w GUNPLAY MAXWELL IS DEAD notorious gun man draws on deputy but Is too slow and palls falls with th revolver in hand price utah gunplay C L maxwell was shot sho and insel instantly a killed here monday afternoon by deputy sheriff kd ed johnston maxwell was out looking for trouble and drew ills revolver first but was the quicker or of the two firing two shots through maxwelll maxwells Max wells breast one ot which passed through ills his heart gunplay maxwell was one of tile the laal last ot of the bad men of the frontier almes it la Is said that his parents were well to do people living in the out outskirts kirts of boston where his fattier father a hotel maxwell became involved in a saloon brawl when a youth and a companion who aled ailed maxwell fled flea to the west landing in southeastern wyoming at tho the time lime of the cattle wars of more than twenty years ago cattle rustling proved ills forte and he drifted to tile the southwest for a time returning to wyoming in 1892 where lie ho continued ills his business of catalo stealing with gambling as a side line after serving a term in ili the wyoming penitentiary for grand larceny be ha drifted to utah and was employed by the utah fuel company as a guard during tho the strike of coal miners in 1902 maxwell with an accomplice attempted to rob the bank at spring ville utah in the summer of 1808 1898 and an employed of the bank was killed A posse chased maxwell and ilia his companion lip one of the ethe canyons nearby near by and maxwell surrendered at the approach of the officers while ills his companion was shot in resisting arrest maxwell was tried and sentenced to eighteen years in tho the state penitentiary five years later lie he assisted the officers in preventing an uprising in the prison and was pardoned lt it Is claimed that lie liwa haa been at liberty maxwell has bas been implicated in at least a dozen hold upa two jewelry robberies one stage robbery and has passed several hundreds deeds of dollars worth of worthless checks escaping prosecution in near neap ly every instance and conviction in ID every cabb case maxwells maxwelll Max wells character Is so well known that there Is little doubt but what the verdict will be one of justifiable homicide as he be had uttered many threats against johnston ands and a dozen other cIt citizens IzenA of price |