Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-06-25 | Page 3 | His Horse Shot

HIS HORSE SHOT Officer Shoots Animal on Which Prisoner Pris-oner Hoped to Escape TRIBUNE SPECIAL Castle Dale Utah June 21There warm an lfnxjiloncd frontier event pulled 00 the Main street of on the town here on Sunday Joe Smith a sheepherder and a man with a large family Imbibed too freely of liquor and mounted on a bron cho raced through tho streets to tho terror of women nnd children Marsha Adler finally succeeded In gelling the man Uan and horse WhIle the officer was leading the pair toward the jail Smith leaned I forward nnd Hllppcd the bridle off of the unl mnla head and put spurs to hla horse and In this way tried to escape getting away from the marshal some 200 feet before tho later discovered what had hapi > ciHd Thc officer fired two shots at this dying prIsoner neither of which hit tho mark tw Tho marshal then seized a nearby horse and just as ho was about to mount the same Smith and his brldlelons hoho came tearing down the street past tho marshal and the cfow that had gathered gath-ered Marshal Adler then sent a shot Into tho hornn as ho wont by him bringing tho runaway pair to I halt Smith wan taken to jail and tho horse out ot town to die I Smith plead guilty to a chargo of disturbing dis-turbing thti peace and owing to thor let that ho seemed quite pcnlUMii was a poor man with a large family and had lont hli horse Justlco Andersen let him oft with a fine ct 51 and cots