Show JURY VINDICATES PATROLMAN LYON Policeman P Who Killed Thug Is Exonerated at Coro Coroners Coroners ners Inquest SMITHS BODY UNCLAIMED TENDERLOIN BULLY APPARENT APPARENTLY LY LV WITHOUT A FRIEND Verdict Vindicates Lyon J In the matter of the inquest of 0 S SS S Joseph Dowd alias Joseph Smith 0 3 S an inquest having been held at atc 0 S c Salt Lake City Utah Salt Lake i county in Salt Lake City pre precinct S o 3 on the day of Novem November 0 S o ber A D 1907 1901 before Dana T Ty b bo o y Smith Justice of the peace In and 0 S o for Salt Lake City precinct county and state as aforesaid s s upon the body of Joseph Dowd DowdS 4 S alias Joseph Smith there lying 0 dead by the Jurors whose names 4 o S are hereto subscribed and said c jurors upon their oaths do say sa sao S 3 o that said Joseph Dowd alias Jo 10 Joseph Joseph i seph Smith came to his death on ont t the he day of November A D 3 1907 by ja a 1 gunshot wound and a d 0 j jS S that said shot was fired by J 3 M lI i io j o Lyon Lon the said J I M loI Lyon being 4 0 o J then and there a police officer of 0 4 Salt Lake City Utah and at the theo o 5 i time of firing said shot the said 0 J Lyon was acting in the discharge 8 S i of his d duty ty and In 0 J and we consider his act perfect i ily 5 c ly justifiable S SS S Signed i iJAMES i iJAMES JAMES F GREEN PETER S CONDIE 0 o s e JAMES P SHARP 0 V 0 4 J 0 J 00 J k J 0 j 44 J J 00 i 4 J 00 4 Unclaimed and as as the body of oC some wild Ild an final the remains of Joe Smith still await burial at atOD OD undertaking establishment I IThe The associates and followers gathered I Iby Iby by this terror of the nether world dur during durIng during ing ten years ears af at lawlessness and strife in Salt Lake seem to have abandoned the fallen leader Curiosity drew a crowd from the squalid haunts frequented by Smith to thc the undertakers ers place all through the day but they went there to gaze their full upon the dead lace face ace of or the man who had filled their hearts with terror and not no notto not notto noto to arrange for a decent burial burin Realizing R this the men in charge of the undertaking establishment at last closed the th doors to the gaping throng and halted but waited in vain for some real friend to come ome and claim the body In that world In which Smith moved there were no real friends Dead and robbed robb d of Vigor igor and strength which made him a power DOWer in lh the t tOn rl in there was none to to pay to his hie memory Not a man nor woman who had known krown him fox foi ten years offered to share the burden of ot Burying the theman theman theman man Unless Smiths relatives on whom he I apparently had little claim take tak I charge charte of the funeral arrangements I the body of the man who was slain I while resisting Policeman Lyon on Friday FridlY night will go goto to the dissection I table at the university Even the women with whom he con consorted consorted consorted sorted were unwilling to contribute to toa toa toa a fund for the burial of tHe tife man They i were relieved that the grim collector of tribute had been stricken I Violet Brown the woman who was with Smith at the time Policeman I Lyon arrested arrest d him went to see the re remains remains remains mains but that was all allI I suppose they will bury him she I said Then she returned to t the dark spot in the city from whence she had come Patrolman Is Vindicated Completely exonerated from all blame for the killing of Smith the ten tenderloin bully whose real name was Joseph Dowd Policeman John M Lyon Lon left lert Justice Dana T Smiths court yesterday afternoon accompanied accompanied accompanied nied by b Chief Pitt and Bur Burbidge Burbidge bidge who had been attentive listen listeners ers era during diring the hearing of the testimony testimony mony mon at the inquest The coroners Jury summoned to inquire into Smiths death was composed of James F Green Peter S Condie Condle and James P Sharp Every Ev ry person who knew any anything anything anything thing bearing upon the case was ex examined examined The witnesses were Dr Paul Edward Smith George W Duesch Wallace Thurston Frank Mayo Continued on Page 2 |