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Show VoITmNO- 47 Bererof castle gate IAN mm Tired of Eluding Persuers loeht MaxweU Returned Thursday to his Shack TWk$Y EAST inLrSheO at Price By Siaff Correspondent. I PRICE, June 18. Roliert Mtix-Kdl Mtix-Kdl 40-year-old negro, who Monday .vmW fired five fatal shots into Momen of J. M. Burns, city martial mar-tial of Castle Gate and special agent of the Utah Fuel company nt that place, tod"? answered with his life (or Ms dastardly crime. Bushed by a mob in an automobile automo-bile from in front of the sheriff's office of-fice here this forenoon to a spot two miles east of this city, Mnx-itell Mnx-itell was hung to a telephone post, ffnlle still alive he was cut down kj. Deputy Sheriff Sam Garrett who Kith three other officers had taken In pursuit of the mob shortly after (hey had left Price. When the angry mob saw that the I killer of the Castle Gate marshal J was still alive, the officers were 1 overpowered, the loop was again : placed around the head of the negro and lie was hoisted a second time to the telephone post. When Sheriff Ray Deming and other officials arrived on the scene I few minutes later the mob had fled and only a few curious onlook-tra onlook-tra were there with the officers. The negro was cut down and brought to a Price undertaking parlor. The hunt for the man killer which ; had been in progress continuously elnee he fired' the shots Monday nening at 7 :30 o'clock came to an z abrupt end Thursday morning at 3 J o'clock when Henry East, special j 88ent of the Utah Fuel company at Castle Gate and former sheriff of Utah county, found Maxwell in his (hack. The negro had come down from the hills sometime during the night and sought rest in his former thack where he bad lived while employed em-ployed as-a miner in the coal mines ot the Utah Fuel company. Maiwell was placed under arrest k? Mr. East who then notified Sheriff Sher-iff Eay Deming of the capture and j that he would immediately take the negro to the county jail at Price. Sheriff Deming and a deputy left for Castle Gate and met East and the prisoner about three miles from I Price. While stopping on the road for a few minutes, a deputy sheriff came hastily from Price notifying the sheriff that a mob was form-In? form-In? la that city to lynch the negro. In an effort to quell any mob violence, vio-lence, Sheriff Deming hurriedly left for Price, but finding no semblance of a mob went to his office to wait the nrrival of the prisoner. V A few minutes later Mr. East J , fame into the sheriffs office, while I the negro remained In the car out-J out-J fide la the custody of another) of-J of-J i fleer- I In an Instant a large mob In sev-' sev-' ml automobiles -swooped down on y the prisoner, manned the car in-i in-i which he was being held, Jumped i jl Into a few other cars belonging to F j- Ihc sheriff's office standing nearby land rushed out of the city, driving east A Deputy Sheriffs Sam Garrett, Lee Bryner and Mack Olscn and City Marshal Warren Peacock set In pur-ltof pur-ltof the mob. Two miles out of the city-they came on the mob who had 'heady atrung the negro to the telephone tele-phone post. Deputy Garrett, In an . , "ort to prevent the lynching, cut j, 'he rope letting tbe murderer fall I to the ground. , When the infuriated mob saw that death bad not come to - I Maxwell, they ovorpowered the of-J of-J 'iters Mnd completed the task tbey lhil set out to do. In' the meantime Sheriff Deming itfi 'ml Henry East had started from Ifrieo in chase of the mob and the :r l'rls"iier. Word of the lynching had lrid nke Wiijfre through the SWjWnlng dty nnd ,.ar3 were rueblug " 'op speed towards the scene. Jno of these cars, in an- effort to ?Py Wss the car driven by Sheriff Dem-drove Dem-drove into the sheriff's car and If-tore one of the wheels off. This de-if'.l'yed de-if'.l'yed the sheriff's party consider-OUt.al.iy- an(1 ,t dld not Brrlvo on tne ;V'!'Milng until after the mob hnd dis-"Persed. X! ' 1 Mrs. George Crandall was hostess r 'he S. T. club at her home Thur-jj.v Thur-jj.v evening of Inst week. Auction j'rt'lge was played with Mrs. Arthur r't'tcy winning the prize. Mrs. Ilar-t"'1 Ilar-t"'1 Johnson was voted a member If, 01 the club. Luncheon was carried 01it In a pink and white color Wieme. and white sweet peas """eil the centerpiece of the dining table. |