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Show DILLON'SJESPAl The Slayer of George Mitchell Would Willingly Surrender His Fortune to tbe Heirs OF THE MAN HE HAS KILLED. Betrayed by a Heartless Brother, Hit Life was Wrecked and Ho Became a Temporary Maniac The friends of Malachl Dillon, slaver of George Mitchell of Ogden, who have been mobilizing in Zion for several sev-eral hours past, procured passports of ! United States Marshal Parsons this afternoon af-ternoon and departed for the pen to visit the prisoner at whom so much prejudice is directed. From them it is learned that Dillon has had A Checkered Career, In '80 he settled in Rawlins, that was then ablaze with the hurrah and recklessness reck-lessness of the frontier, and opened a saloon that soon began to enrich him. Ho then invested In a coal mine with most lucrative results, and that soon began to pay wealth into his crib. From these sources he began to rise in the world of Mammon, and when the first act came that was to change his temperament and his entire life he was rich in Thla World a Legaclee. Dillon had a brother who also resided in Rawlins. He also had a wife upon whom he lavished love and money and until he was awakened to the shocking relations that existed between her and and Dillon's brother. The husband was horrified at the revelation and became an avenging maniac. He confronted them both aud almost heart-broken, Outraged and Humiliated he sought oblivion in the glass. Reeling Reel-ing beneath the effects of this and those of his own despair he again came face to face with the brother that w is less human than the fabled Cain, and unable to longer brook the impulses that were urging him on he drew a revolver re-volver and shot the betrayer. The public pub-lic said unfortunate, but well done. The Wounded Man recovered but fled the old haunts and disappeared somewhere in the solitudes of Utah. From that time he was a changed man. He was unable to tame his wrath. It blew like a tempest at the least provocation. Dillon is said to have been completely in the grasp of A Mercy that Merciless. In this condjtion he remained for a long time and then settled into periodical periodi-cal sprees which were invariably the outlet to the same desperate spirit. He went to Ogden from Kawlins recently to attend the baths and determined to sober up after a protracted spree. He succeeded, but started on another and it was while on this that lie Fired the Fatal Shot. His friends have rallied about him at the penitentiary. They represent a million or more, while it ie estimated that Dillon himself has an esute of $200,000. All this, says the prisoner, would he give had he never been driven to the act, and stated his intention of turning his fortune over to widow and children of His Bleeding Victim. "Has he a defense?" was asked in the interview. "I believe he has, but he is in too much agony, too much misery to try and excuse himself. You don't know how he suffers. 1 have heard, however, how-ever, that the refusal to drink did not cause the shot. Words and epithets had been exchanged, and they say Mitchell was rounding the bar when he drew and fired. I don't know that the story is true." Dillon seems to have been most popular pop-ular with a great many of tho wealthy men of Kawlins and the surrounding country and at one time was a room mate of Harvey Carlyle of this city. |