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Show DECLARES HE SLEW I II H OF LIFE Fred Bereup, Who Killed Bj Idaho Deputy Sheriff, Gives I His Version. i , H' Special to The Tribune. H 'i OGDEN, Aug-. 29. Making no excuse for his action other than that he expect-ed expect-ed the officer to open fire upon him. H r Fred Bereup, alias Fred Alunff, who shoL and killed Deputy Sheriff McFadden at Grace, Idaho, last Saturday, spent sev- Hn eral hours in the county Jail here 'today. Hl'' In charge of Sheriff S. B. Xiowry and Hj Deputy Sheriff J. A.NIiewis, both of Ban- nock county, the slayer wan taken to J' Pocatello, Idaho, at 3 o'clock this after- jl noon. The officers, tvith their charge, Hrj arrived early this morning from Cobre, H New. -where Boreup toib captured yes- Hl terday afternoon. H Sheriff LouTy and his dcput' had no Hf trouble in placing Bereup under arrest, i, They took him at the Southern Pacific station in Cobre, after he had made a ti trip to the postoffice to obtain a letter Hrn containing a cashier's draft mailed from Hhl Soda Springs, Idaho. It was the letter Hih mailed by Bereup from this city, ro- fi questing that the deposit monoy he sent Hijf to Cobre which proved his undoing. , Hf The Pocatello sheriff saw Bereup from ij the train as it was passing the station HH at Tecoma, He hesitated to attempt the j,f arrest, however, until ho was absolutely IliC positive of the identification. As Sheriff J Lowry was on his way to Cobre on Tucs- i, day he saw Bereup seated under a wa- 41 ter tank at Tecoma eating a lunch. Hlt "When the officer arrestod me on Sat- (1 tirday I drew my revolver and jumped f'i from the buggy, said Bereup at the H-H county Jail today. "McFaddcn drew his Hm gun at the same timo and wo stood facing Ht each other with guns pointed for fully a H'j minute. During that timo I expected tho Hi officer to shoot me. When he showed wjt no desire to start that kind of a game, I'; I decided to shoot the lines out of his ? hands and make a getaway. I shot him I'J in the hand and the lines dropped. Then 15 I Jumped into the buggy and drove away, HBh In but McFadden followed, shooting as he Bh jn HBWiB "T do not remember of seeing McFad- HVll dc-n again, but when I thought somebody Ha was trying to climb into the back of tho Ml buggy I fired twice in that direction, taking no particular aim, but tho bullets 3 seem to have struck the officer in the III breast, as they tell me that he had three wounds. Three shots are all that I tired." k Bereup declared that he drove toward h Soda Springs, throwing his gun into a t wheat field before he reached the town. t There he bought a ticket and rode in I a passenger train as far as Granger, f W'yo. From that point he boat his way i Into Ogdcn. He did not -write the Ict- I ter to the Soda Springs bank until he was put off of a Southern Pacific train anJ had walked back Into Ogdon. He ( then beat his way on a passenger train V i to Tecoma and finally into Cobre. Sheriff Lowry's version of the shooting : docs not tally with that given by Bereup. S The officer declares that McFadden. was in the buggy with the prisoner and a companion when Bereup drew a rovol- BaB ' ver and fired the shot which afterwards BBB e proved fatal. According to I,ovry. Bere- BBB J up was 'released only a few months ago , from the Wyoming penitentiary, where he served a sentence for highway robbery. |