Show YOUNG THUG SHOT DEAD OFFICER Patrolman J M Lyon Kills Joe Smith in in Lone LoneStar LoneStar I IStar Star Saloon to Save Himself From Serious Injury Policeman Prostrate Under Blows of Assailant When Fatal Shot Is Fired Removing Terror of the Tenderloin Joe Smith a notorious character of the under world was shot ahot and killed by Policeman John M I Lyon last night at in the Lone Star saloon 60 South Vest West Tem Tern Temple Temple pits street It was as a swift swift and sudden ending of a bad career such as all had of ot often otten ten tell been predicted Smith had earned the sobriquet of Fighting Joe chiefly through his exploits in attacking po policemen policemen policemen I He was also a terror to his associates of ot the tenderloin Smith first attracted the attention of the police pollee about ten years ago Since that time he was arrested a number of times limes for various petty offenses and served seved one om term for burglary in the state pe He pretended to be bea bea bea a 1 but spent his time chiefly with ith disreputable dl reputable women from whom he lie extorted their earnings Where There he came from the police pollee were never able to learn He was a giant In strength and sev several several eral oral members of the police force last night recalled desperate struggles they had had with Fighting Joe Policeman Lyon Lon who fired the tile fatal shot idiot has bas been on the police force for I about two years ears Before that he was for fur a number of years employed by bythe bythe bythe the Utah Light Railway company He lie lived at 1044 1041 South Ninth East street A Desperate Struggle The struggle which resulted in Smiths death grew out of Policeman Lyons attempt to place Fighting Joe under arrest The policeman was de detailed detailed tailed to investigate the theft of a va valise lise from ruin a West Vest Temple lodging house and first firt entered the Lone Star saloon about 9 last night in search of ofa ofa ofa a man named Bobby Laws He found Smith standing at the bar and aimi asked I him if he lie had seen Been Laws Smith re Se replied reI I plied lulled that Laws was vas wa In another saloon i 1 if 2 W z if 1 I II I i t if I I I I I 1 I c A AI I JOE SMITH Shot to death by Patrolman John M Lyon on whom he made a vicious attack further up the street Policeman Lyon went there but did not find the man He however obtained Information which led him to believe that Smith was Implicated in the theft of the va valise vaUse Vause Use lise Returning to the Lone Lon Star he lie asked for Fighting Joe and was told by Raley Haley MIo the bartender that Smith was upstairs talking to Violet Brown Browna a woman with whom he consorted As Ascending Ascending Ascending to the upper floor the police policeman policeman policeman man found Smith and ordered the man manto manto manto to accompany him to police pollee headquarters tern Smith descended to the barroom with Policeman Lyon but instead of ot passing out of ot the door wheeled to the bar Ive gone as far as I 1 intend to go with you ou he said Lyon informed him that he was un under under under der arrest Dont talk to me shouted Smith Ill not listen to you OU and Ill not go with you Policeman Lyon at this placed his hand upon the mans shoulder houlder You must come he lie said id He Hc had scarcely uttered the words w when Smith struck him a stunning blow upon the left side of the face Lyon reeled several feet backward striking at Smith with his club The Time Theman Theman man dodged and then leaped le ped upon the time policeman bearing him to the floor He was a powerful man and easily h ld the policeman down do n He circled Lyons neck with one arm and with the other fist rained blows upon the face fac Lyon called to the men Thea in the saloon to help him Then thinking that they were unwilling or afraid to give him him assistance he reV his revolver and shot Smith in the stomach With a hoarse hoar e cry of ot terror Smith released his hold upon the policeman clasped his hand over the wound and ran from the place Policeman Lyon did not fire a second shot at the man but followed the fugi fugitive fugitive tive from the saloon Smith ran north northward northward northward ward as far tar as the alley at the side of or orthe the Moran barn Into this he plunged Policeman Lyon followed A few feet from the entrance to the alley he lie found Smith unconscious and lying face downward where he had bad fallen Dies in Twenty Minutes The man was unconscious when picked up and removed to the emer emergency emergency gency genc hospital He died twenty min minutes minutes mm utes after reaching that place remain remaining remainIng remainIng ing unconscious to the end The bullet had entered Smiths stomach at a point below bolow the heart ranging upward and severing an artery Dr Paul who was summoned found that the man had died of inter internal Internal internal nal hemorrhage The place In which the shooting took C to place was formerly known kno n as the Black Cat and was the rendezvous umi of ot such men as Smith The name was later changed to the Lone Star A is proprietor of ot the After shooting Smith Policeman P Lyon hurried to police headquarters and reported what had happened to Thief Chief Pitt and Captain Burbidge They at once sent for all aU the men who had w witnessed the killing and after a care fi f inquiry into the facts came to the conclusion that the tile policeman was en on entirely entirely justified in the use of his weapon After Atter the investigation Policeman Lyon was vas sent home Statements of Witnesses In his statement of the occurrence last l t night Raley Haley Mio Mb the bartender substantiated the story told by the po policeman policeman policeman Smith was the toughest man I ever SAW in all my life said mId Mio Mb Early in the evening he came Into the saloon and created a row over a glass of ot beer As we knew that he was a dangerous man we let him have his way wa know knowing knowling ing ling I that to be the only way of ot avoiding I trouble After he had knocked the policeman I down Smith commenced to beat hint him savagely The policeman pollee mal called for tOI i help Thinking that Lyon L on was in dan danger danI danger I ger gel I picked up my from froni be behind beI behind hind the counter and shouted to Smith I Take your our hands bands off that man Just Justat Justat at that moment I heard the shot Smith I uttered a loud yell and ran through the thedoor thedoor door with his hands upon his stomach stomach stomach I ach We followed him out He ran fast until he was near the alley at the th Moran stable Then he staggered His strength was leaving him He dropped just inside the alley James OBrien m a cook cock living at the Lincoln House stated that Smith was beating Policeman Lyon when the shot was fired Smith had knocked the policeman down said OBrien and had jumped upon him After striking him a number of times he made a amo mo motion motion I tion as though to draw a revolver Then Lyon shot him himI Another eyewitness of the ul th tragedy I Wallace Thurston of ot Kingston Plute Pluto county said saith The policeman first came Into the time saloon looking for Bobby Laws Later he returned for tor Smith Learning that the man was upstairs the policeman ln went up after him Smiths Threatening Gesture When they came Into the barroom together Smith seemed to be in an nit ugly mood and turned away from the policeman saying that he would not go o with him to the station The Continued on Page 3 YOUNG THUG SHOT DEAD WHILE BEATING OFFICER Continued from Page 1 then tried to take hold of him ant and Smith struck hint him The policeman tried to use his club but missed Smith who then knocked him down When the shot was fired Smith was feeling In his hip pocket as though In search of ot a weapon Policeman Lyon in his description of the shooting also aloo said that he was un under under under der the impression that Smith was about to Ura kira Braw a weapon Violet Brown said I J have known Smith for about a year ear He forced me meto meto meto to give him my earnings I dared not nol i refuse He was a dangerous man and andI I feared that he would kill me if I I did not do as he commanded He also made another woman Madelaide Young siv gi give him her earnings Like me she feared him hini I know nothing of his family He once told me he haft haji a sister living in Salt Lake I do not know her name I 1 did not see anything of the shoot shooting shootIng shooting ing The first fi t I knew of what had hap happened happened happened was when the shot was fired and some one ran up stairs to tell me that Joe had been killed Smith was about 28 years old and had borne a bad reputation for about ten years During that time he became famous as a fighter of policemen About two years ago he had a desperate en encounter encounter encounter counter with Policeman Olson in the Midland rooming house at First South near West est Temple street He lie was re 19 reduced reduced to submission only after atter he had been severely clubbed At another time he had a struggle with Policeman Guardella Brown now of or the th Juvenile court Ourt in Walt W lt Jenkins saloon Had not bystanders Interfered Brown would have been roughly han ban handled handled bandied died Smith for some reason had a bitter hatred of Sergeant Hempel and during the past two weeks made open threats that ho would get the sergeant Ser Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant geant Hempel said last night that he did not know how ho he had aroused the mans hostility Justice of or the Peace Dana T Smith acting coroner was notified of the kill killins kIllIng lug ins of Smith He will this morning summon a Jury juO and hold an inquest as soon aa as a possible In III the beginning of his lils J ls career Smith was actually a peddler but even then was wag sold said to have been and nd un unscrupulous scrupulous The police say that he ho was one night arrested for selling bad wal walnuts walnuts walnuts nuts In has hits wagon were pounds of the worthless nuts and about fifty pounds of good ones Buyers were shown the good ones and served with the bad badIn badIn badIn In the hasty examination of the police pollee records last night Smiths career as a a abad abad abad bad man was outlined as follows I September 1902 Charged with fight fightIng fighting Ing ng Discharged December 1902 Charged with resist resistIng resistIng Ing ns Policemen Sperry and Olson Sen Son Sentenced Sentenced to days s in Jail September 1903 Lewd conduct Sen Sentenced Sentenced to twenty days December 1903 Fighting g No record of disposition of case casc June Iune 1904 Drunk and disorderly Ar Arrested Arrested rested by Policemen Eddington anti anU Palmer Calmer Sentenced to days In n Jail July Juh 1905 Petty larceny and resist resistIng lag Ing ng Policeman Guardella Brown Sen Son Sentenced to three months In Jail January Vagrancy February 1906 Burglary Sentenced to o one year oar inthe In the penitentiary December 1906 1 Vagrancy January 1907 Vagrancy Smith was recently charged with stealing a horse and wagon in front of f the Wilson hotel and taking it to Bingham Singham Junction where he Is said to tf have lave attempted to sell lIell It The horse and nd wagon belonged to Fred Johnson |