Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-09-14 | Page 1 | Slain in Cold Blood

r SLIN IN GOLD BLOOD t P Young Cattleman Shot Dead From Ambush WAS AT WORK AT TIME Two Men Who Were With Him Made f No Effort to See Who Had Fired tho Fatal Shot When Their Companion Com-panion Fell Over Dead Coioners Jury Returned n Verdict That Killing I v Kill-ing Was by Parties Unknown I Tragedy Occura In Vicinity of Cora Wyoming TRIBUNE SPECIAL Lander Wyo SepL fo Word reached here this evening from Corn Cor-n postofllco In tho New Fork country coun-try oC the killing on tho fourth of this month of S J IF Heed a young cattleman of that vicinity Three men were Inking a hayrack from a wagon when a shot was fired from the willows wil-lows nearly and Reed fell dead No steps were tnlon by thoie present toe to-e who fired the fatal shot Tho Justice of the Peace H C John pon was notified and he promptly Impaneled Im-paneled n Coroners Jury consisting off of-f C Belknap E C Miller and S V Hoff and they went to the scene or the shooting and after hearing the evidence evi-dence brought In a verdict of murder In the flit degree against parties unknown un-known Two parties are suspected with one of whom the victim had a difficulty over n woman pome time In the past t The feeling la Intense and should the r man he captured he will be summarily dealt with Reed hL eonlnJaw of J A Wcstfall a prominent cattleman In the New Fori country