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Show MAI ZORAF DIES AIJU CROSS Shot While Stealing Coal ly Mace Cochrane, Night Watchman. ZORAF ADMITS THEFT IN ANTE-MORTFJI STATEMENT Assistant County Attorney Says Watchman Will Be j Prosecuted. 1 Mat Zoraf, tho Austrian, Bhofc while stealing coal from the Denvor & Rio Grande Railwn' company lat Bingham Junction by Special Night Watchman Mace Cochrane eight days ago. died at the Holy Cross hospttul from his wound late Sunda.v night. Zoraf's death lays Cochrane open to the grave chargo of first-degTco mur-dor, mur-dor, but Assistant County Attorney P. T. Fnrusworth, in charge of the caBe, says that there are certain extenuating extenuat-ing circumstances in favor of Cochrane that probably may reduce tho charge to voluntary manslaughter. That there will bo a prosecution of Cocbrano, Mr. Farnsworth positively asserted Monday night, but he was not prepared to give tho degree of tho charge. The caso will bo taken up today. Cochrane has not been re-arrested. He was relonsed from the conuty jail threo or four da3s ago upon $500 bail, furnished by a local oecurity company. Zoraf was shot in the back, the bullet bul-let striking the vertebrae of tho spinal column below the lower point of the shoulder blade. He was completely paralyzed at first, but recovered the use of tho upper part of his body before be-fore death. From the hips down he was paralyzed, however, and had he lived would not have recovered the use of tho lov,-or part of his body. Zoraf. in an ante-mortem statement, admitted the theft of coal when he wns shot. Cochrane says that he detected Zoraf and two follow countrymen tumbling coal from a car and putting it into sacks, and crawled undernenth the car from which they were rolling fuel to capture them. As he emerged from underneath the car he wns assaulted, as-saulted, he says, boing kicked, and then struck in the head with a lump of conl by one of his aFsailauts. This probabh- will be his defense. He also claims that Zoraf' did not stop when ordered or-dered to halt and he fired at him when ho kept on fleeing. Zoraf, in his ante-mortem ante-mortem statement, however, contradicted contradict-ed this, saying that there was no time between the call to halt' and the fatal shot. A peculiar circumstance of Zoraf's killing wns that he was shot in tbe back. 3-ct he turned and fell toward his slayer. |