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Show THREE HELD FOR MURDER OFjflESE Mexicans Charged With Slaying Section Foreman Who Hastened End to . Prevent Wreck. DYING MAN PLACED TORPEDO ON TRACK Unable to Move Handcar From Track, K. Kihara Crawled Along Sleepers to Save Passengers. Throe Mexicans, objects of a man hunt conducted by the officers of Millard Mil-lard county since Friday night in connection con-nection with the murder of K. Kihara a Salt Lake Eoute section foreman north of Milford were arrested about 6 o'clock last night. ' Two of the men, who gave their names as Repizio Marquiz and Bacilia Abrego, were caught about six miles east of Delta by Marshal Clawaon of Delta and Deputy Sheriff Lorin Taylor, and will be charged with the murder. The other Mexican, who gavo his name as Asebergo, was taken by Constable Abraham Workman of Delta, at Oasis, and is being held as a witness. ' The men were unarmed and offered no resistance, re-sistance, when overtaken. The three were locked in the jail at Delta. Prevented Wreck. Gasping for breath, Kihara was found lying on the right of way by the crew of the west bound Pacilic limited train which had come to a sudden halt north of Milford. The engineer had applied the emergency brakes when the engine passed over a torpedo, the signal sig-nal to 6top instantly. As the engiue with its brakes screeching was coming to a stop, the engineer noticed but a short distance in front a handcar and near by the Winchester rifle. A short distance back the Japanese was found. As the crew approached he lifted his hand, seemingly in an attempt to signify his joy at having Baved the train. He smiled and tried to talk, but died, almost before any aid could be given him. He did, howover, manage man-age to whisper that he had been shot by members of his section gang, before unconsciousness overtook him. Kihara Praised. Along the track was a bloody trail and on the handcar where the torpedoes were fastened was a pool of blood, mute evidence of the fact that Kiliara s last thoughts were to save the train, which he knew would soon be due. While there may have been no serious accident acci-dent had the train hit the handcar, which was too heavy for the Japanese to remove in his weakened condition, there was still a chauce and a big chance in the minds of the road's officials of-ficials that a wreck might have oc-i oc-i curred. "I presume there is not one man In I a hundred who would have bad nerve enough to do what Kihara did," said i Superintendent Van Housen. "It is highly probable that ho averted a serious seri-ous wreck. If any part of the handcar hand-car had caught beneath the pilot of the engine there is no doubt that the whole train would have been ditched and perhaps per-haps dozens of passengers injured. His act demonstrates the faithfulness of an old employee. Kihara always discharged his duties faithfully and well His example ex-ample furnishes a strong argument against those who say that foreigners and especially Japs never prove themselves them-selves loyal to the company which employs em-ploys them." Claim Accident. According to Sheriff Dorrity of Millard Mil-lard county, Marquiz and Abrego have confessed to a knowledge ot the shoot-lug, shoot-lug, but assert that it was accidental. Both men declaro that in a quarrel with Kiliara the Jap tried to shoot them. A scuffle followed, in which the gun, a 30.30 Winchester rifle, was accidentally discharged while in the hands of Kihara. Ki-hara. Seeing the foromau fall, the Mexicans say they became frightened and fled. Howover, Sheriff Dorrity insists that the evidence does not bear out the statement of the prisoners. Ho declares that the powder marks which would be plainly visible if the gun had been discharged dis-charged by the foreman, are absent, and he furthermore contends that it would be impossible for a man of Kihara 's stature to shoot himself with a rifle and inflict the wound that caused his death The bullet entered the abdomen on the right side, passed entirely through the body and emerged on the "left side. Only one shot took effect and it is presumed that only oue shot was fired. Employed by Kihara. The Mexicans came to the Salt Lake Route from southern California several months ago and were employed on the section under Foreman Kiliara. Their statement to the effect that they tied immediately after the shooting is borne out bv the fact that the gnu and the wounded man were left lying on the 1 ground and the handcar on which they ..(Continued ou Pago Twenty six) I Idee men held fob murder of japanese (Continued from Page Odo.) had come to the sceue of the bbootins was left standing on the main track. As nearlv as the officers ean learn the shoot injz took place about 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, but taa Dot reported report-ed until about an hour latr, when the Pacific limited, a westbound passenger train on the Salt Lake Route, found the handcar on the track protected y a torpedo placed by the faithful foreman fore-man jind the 'Winy; lllL a. the ends of the ties. Man Hunt Started. It was nearly 4 o'clock wheD Sheriff Dorrity at liilmorc received word of the trouble. Hastily summoning all his deputies he hurried in automobile to the scene of the ehootintr, arriving there about seven hours later. Darkness Dark-ness held up the chase, but tacriff Dorrity Dor-rity notified tho officers of nit the town a in the vicinit v by telephone to be on tho lookout for tho Mexicans. With the first peep of dawn officers took up the hunt. Through heavy growth of pagr-brush and greaaewood they followed the trail. It led in a northeasterly direction to a point about fifteen mile's cast of Clear lake; then it swerved toward the railroad. Hut iut before the pufse overtook th fu-"tives fu-"tives they were caught by the Delta officers. 1 When the flying pasheng'M- train was I brought to a biiddeu tdop by the explosion explo-sion of thf torpedo, de;i Hi was hover-I hover-I ing so near the heroic Kihnra that he could only ga?p the information that I he had been shot by bis Mexican paction pac-tion men and that a'haudoar obstructed the main track a few ynnls ahead, lie 1 was put on the train nnd takon to Mil-I Mil-I ford, where he died shortly a fter Ma prriva!. Mis body will Iir brought to ''Salt Lake this morning for burial. Was Old -Employee. Kihara was about 4(i years of age. He came to Vtah about fpn years ago and, through E. D. llanhinioto, oblaiued employment em-ployment on the Salt Luke division ot the iiralt Lake Route as a section em-plovfie. em-plovfie. For almost seven years ho has worked faithfully and wan promoted from timo to time until, about three years nt:o, he wa placed in tho position he filled at the time of his druth. He was known all along tho line, to officials of-ficials and employees, as a careful and reliable man. According to Mr. Hashimoto, Kihnra is survived by a wife and severnl children, chil-dren, who are still in .Japan. Onlv a fow weeks ago, Mr. Hashimoto said, Kihnra pent money and instructions to jhis family to coiiip to I'tah. Mr. Hashimoto Hash-imoto has cabled the news of the death of Kihara to Japan in tho hope ot catching the family before it starts to I America. |