Show SAMMY CLARK WELL WEft KNOWN IN FIGHTING CIRCLES Man Who Was Killed at Nampa Conducted a Boxing Club on State Street a Few Years Father FatherS S Still Lives in Salt Lake Special to The Caldwell Ida r killing Sammy Clark formerly of 01 Salt Lake Cit City in the barroom of the Grand hotel at Nampa on the evening of Nov 26 last Texas Clark has been found guil guilty guilty ty of and sentenced to serve seven years In the state prison at BoIse A formal notice of an appeal has been given but It Is doubtful if it will willbe be P o a as the d defendant is with VV Th The Sammy Clark ref to In the above dispatch was well known In Salt Lake His father still lives here Sam a few years ago ran a small tight fight club on State street where boxing contests were given with great frequency Sam him himself himself self was a pugilist of some ability as those who have seen him fight will wiIl tes He was regarded here as a danger ens us man especIally when he was under the influence of intoxicants After leaving here Clank went first to Pocatello where he maintained a box Ing club for a time and g gave ve boxing les lessons lesSons sons Front From Pocatello he went to Nam Nampa Nampa pa On the night he was killed heo ha had engaged In an altercation wIth Texas Clark a gambler and all around sporting man In fri which blows were exchanged Texas got rather the worse of the en encounter encounter counter According to the story he told on the i witness stand T Texas as left the rand ho I Itel tel bar In which the fisticuffs occurred and borrowed a revolver rom om a friend Five minutes later he returned to the Grand hotel Sam Clark a woman and another man were seated in a wine room Texas went to the door and call called d the theother theother other man The moment he saw Texa in the doorway Sam Clark sprang to his feet and seIzing a chair advanced to towards wards ards his antagonist I stepped back said Texas to the jury and told Sam to stop He contin continued tO towards zu ro fl 1 J r ha a asa V sa dH a V lie he would kill kUl me ma the next time wo we met When he refused to stop I drew my re revolver revolver volver which was in my hip pocket and fired I dont know how many shots I 1 fired at him but when he fell to the floor and rolled over almost on his face I quit shooting Then I gave UP my gun gunto gunto to the bartender and told him to call an officer The feature that told most V heavily against Texas Clark in the trial was vas his own admission that after the first encounter with Sam he went out se secured secured I cured a revolver and almost Immediately returned apparently for the V purpose of killing Sam It was thought that if he had desired to do so he could have avoided the difficulty diffIcult The reputation of Texas was also against him He had done no honest work within the memory r of anybody who knew him In Nampa and was generally regarded as a desperate character V |