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Show An Ogden Murder. Broom Hoetel Bar-keeper killed. He refusted to drink Gambler -- A visit to the Provo Woolen Mills. Malachai W. Dillon, a Rawlins, Wyoming, gambler and saloon keere, came to Ogden about a week ago. On Monday night, he, in company with a number of Ogden toughs, started out for a spree. A number of saloons were visited, the crown dwindling away until only Dillon and Jack Phillips were left. At about 7 o'clock in the morning these two entered the Broom hotel bar-room and called for a bottle of champagne. While they were drinking this, George Mitchell, one of the bar-tenders, entered. Dillin insisted on Mitchell drinking with the, but Mitchell declined, with thanks, on the grounds that he had just eaten breakfast, and he did not think it would be well for him to drink. Dillon became angry and threatened to make Mitchell drink. With this end in view, he drew his gun and pointed it at Mitchell, who stepped back. The gun was fired almost instantly and Mitchell staggered with a wound in his side. Dillon make another pass at him and the two grappled, the wounded man trying to get posession of the gun. During the struggle Dillon fired two more shots, both of which flew wide in their mark and lodged in the wall near the north end of the mirror, under the billard cue rack. George at last fell over the billard table and his head struck on the steps leading to the hotel office, leaving a pool of blood on the floor. Phillips and the porter had run out the frunt door during the shooting, and the reports attracted the officres and a large crowd. The excitement was at a high pitch and there were threats of a lynching, but the officers soon had the murderer behind the bars. Mitchell died within a few minutes after the affray. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that George Mitchell was feloniously and unjustifiably killed by Malachi W. Dillon by means of a revolver loaded with powder and leaden bullets. At the preliminary examination the prisoner took things very cool, but he looked as though he was just recovering from a big drunk. By reputation he is a bad man, and this appearance sustains his reputation. Dillion was held to await the action of the grand jury. |