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Show H Masked Highwayman I 1 Shoots Ed. Leiter H '88 TIioiirIiI (n lie (he Work of mi Amu H S Iriir Wlm I.hcs In I.tM-Lrltet B jffi3 Still Holding UN Own nud OOlccrs H- Bw Working On I lie Cn-f. V!'j '3lll AIr ''J' J'tllor WUB mot by n high- i v$H wnymnn Saturday night Just as be H ' .JM wrni entering thu Lcitor homo and H j3j was tiliot by a bullet from the rob- B''V ln'rs KU"' w,l,cl1 may Prvo fatal, -iFf though thu doctors Buy that ho hat iiiB -ur'i$l " f"'r c,KUICt' ,0 recover. Tho bullet LLLmTSJ entered tin abdomen Juat below tin VfBw stnmiich, having passed between two Blffir lobes of the liver. It then passed H-r 0Vtr t,' mrKc Intestine, tore a holt B''-tSI through the upper part of the kidney Ho t3 nnd Indeed somewhere under tho ribs B $ r 'olu1' 'llul banked a part of the B Mb' day's receipts, but had about $35.00 BBLB' . ItHI "'" biihincit of what was taken Iti BBBBBBBBhtfliitt Saturdny, on his person. Ho Walked Hu home north from the drug store t BIbSS "' Vaughn corner, then turned wes Bnffflj for n block, and us hu turned tho J Hh9m K. lioiio corner, he noticed a mat BwPSB B'undlng close, to tho fence that dl bbbbbbBM vldes tho Leiter and Olmstead lots BjF jjB TIiIh wiih about 10:40. As Mr. I.eltei BSroS neared the guto to his home, the rob BQri l"'r. vv tcli a white handkerchief ove BjflH th.i lower pHrt of his fuce, stepped t BsflB few paces forward (.ml with drawi BBBBBBm'liS revolver dcniutuled, "Give mo you' BmM&Ii money." I.elter's uiiswer was a roplj BrB thut iho man wiih a coward, und start K9 ed toward him. The bandit hackee BtUidS 0U " '''W b(i;I'h' "n'1' "H S'lot UIU' rnl ETn Mr, l.elter staggered Into his liotiu BKaJB turned on thu Unlit und told his moth Hn9 or he wns shot. Sho Immediately rai Bl&mB for u doctor, and J. 10. Hone, win HS&jB heard the shot and Letter's cry o' H&9 "l! Oh I Oh!," hurriedly dressed am H8 I came In. Mrs. Helier Allred also bean HB tile shot and Mr, I.elter's answer thu BN&M the man wiib u coward, She got ti ftsjH and looked out hut saw no one, Mrs BSuB. Mm le McCurrle and visitors at ho BH. homo heard the shot. Mrs. McCnrrh BLBB ( wo,lt ,0 licr 'rout door, nud as slw B was standing outside, alio saw a mat H i run past within about two rods of her Hl i pass underthn electric light and on MH up the Intcriirban track. Shu des- Bjfl I crlbes him ns being rather short ani Ppfli wearing i cap nud a brown suit, HRM . Dr. llnlbrook dressed the mnn'r BSb v ' wounds nud ndmliilBtored some oplutoi Blt! to relievo thu pain, and lift with Mr BflB J Loiter on tho 11 MO cur for Salt Lake BLbB! ! City, where ha was placed In the L BPB I. S. hospital. Here nil operation war GB, performed to open up the bowols anil HB remove the largo amount of blooi HB which hud aceiimulated, nud to sto B any further How, The doctors sa) BH that the bullet mndu a big hole, about BB like ii lend nosed :iS-cnllbro revolvei B bullet would make. Mr. Letter wui B under the ether for an hour and i B half, and milled In such a mnntiei B that tho doctors snld he had an uvci H break for his H ' City Marshal J. S. Hvnns wns Ii H) bed when the robbing was committed BiH I but hurried on his clothes and wlthlt H j n few lulnutes was on tho trail of tin H robber. The reeent snow showed thai B' the migi's trucks had turned Hebet H Allred's corner, then turned west oi HB3 tho south side of the street to Asr BDl Clark's corner, where they took t B' the lutcrurbau track. Tore they wen HN nppareutly joined by the tracks frou Bfl a larger man, nnd the two proceeded HHI nloiiK the liiterurbtiu to the street BH west of the canning factory. The) HlyPl then crossed over to the I), nud It. 0 BE nud went north for u hnlf mile herr MmI all truce of them were lost. How. BftSB ever, the Murshal nud his ulds took Bw the liiterurbau car to the Jordan Nnr BJW rows, where two men sitting beshb Bffl a lire wero fishing. Aa they had bean' Bjflj no one. puss, the return Journey wilt BfB made down the 1). nud It. Q. nnd Oretr fjlf lines, but no more trneks were Been I jffl Karly Sun lay morulug, the search fm IjXj tracks mih resumed, and some re- B c.eiiibllni; those above described, werr IH found leiullng south from the I), am' IH H (i mi the street west of the Clh Park. They wero tuado by men running, run-ning, nnd wero plainly seen where the snow had not melted. rotlceman Jones picked up from be-side be-side the Lcitor fence u thong mnde from an apple, tree limb, mi which hnd been slipped a piece of heavy rubber hosi- cut from a I), und It. O. air brake connection. This would have been an excellent billy club. It may havo been left cither by tho robber, rob-ber, or n companion. Sheriff East nnd Marshal Evans worked on the cuso nil dny Sunday and Monday, questioning boys nnd iien, running down nud discarding cluo nfter clue. They feel sure that It was an amateur whose homo Is In Lehi. They say that It was done by someone who knew where Mr. Leiter lived, nnd that ho wns In thu habit ot taking his money homo nt night. Mr Loiter said repeatedly that he. know tho man from his voice, build nnd actions; that ho did not know tin young man's name but that he was short, rather dark complexioned, had a peculiar quick movement nud wiip between IS nnd 21 years of age. Hi was sura that the young man luu' been In his store a number of .tlmec 'n the past two weeks and made pur chases. Edward Leiter Is about thirty years of age, Hu wus taking care of hip brother, llalph's, store, while the latter lat-ter wus undergoing a nine week'r operation ut the Holy Cross hospital At the present time Messrs Kell Long und Lester Stnuln are In charg of the store. Young Ed die Jones nud KlgW Rhodes were out with n buggy ft on Hammer's Stable Satunlay night, am' the description given of his ns inlliit by Leiter led the officers tr, suspect Jones, Sheriff East took hlir to Salt Luke City Tuesday. When they entered I.elter's room, ho reached reach-ed out, shook hands with the .Tone? lad, called him by name, nud Rnl' that this wns not the boy who shn' him. Mr. 13. V. Jones, the boy's futh er, Bays that his sou Is entirely t it no-cent. |