Show GUNPLAY MAXWELL IS DEAD r 1 II I victorious Gun Man Draws on Deputy tI L JElHejrlff BumToo Slow and 11 1 Falls With Revolver In Hand Price Utah = Gunplay C L Maxwell was shot H it Distantly killed lero Monday ufteVnbon by Deputy Sheriff Ed Johnston Maxwell was put looking for trouble and draw his revolver first but Johnston was the qUI ker of the two tiring two shots through Maxwells breast one of which passed through his heart Gunplay Maxwell was one of the 1 ast of the bad men of the frontier times It Is said that his parents wore welltodo people living In the outklrta of Boston where his father owned a hotel Maxwell became Involved In-volved In a saloon brawl when a youth and soht a companion who tiled Maxwell fled to the west landing land-ing In southeastern Wyoming at the lime of the cattle wars of more than twenty years ago Cattle rustling proved his forte and ho drifted to tho Southwest for ft time returning to Wyoming In 1892 where ho continued Ills business of cattle stealing with gambling as a side line After serving a term In the Wyoming Wyom-ing penitentiary for grand larceny ho drifted to Utah and was employed by the Utah Fuel company as a guard during the strike of coal mingrs In 5902 1 02Maxwell Maxwell with an accomplice attempted at-tempted to rob the bank at Spring vllle Utah In the summer of 1898 and on employe of the bank was killed A posse chased Maxwell and his companion ujronopf the canyons nearby ana Maxwell surrendered at the approach of the officers whllo his companion was shot In resisting arrest ar-rest Maxwell was tried and sentenced sen-tenced to eighteen years In the state penitentiary Five years later he assisted as-sisted the omcers in preventing on uprising the prison and was pardoned par-doned It Is claimed that since he has been at liberty Maxwell has been 1m heated In at least a dozen holdups tjo jewelry jobborles one Hom lob berT and has passed several hundreds hun-dreds df dollars vTortH6Tw1i5r fi1e3s checks escaping prosecution In nearly near-ly every Instance and conviction in every case Maxwells character Is HO 1 well known that there is llttlo doubt but what the verdict will be ono of Just I flable homicide as he had uttered many threats against Johnston and a dozen other citizens of Price I |