Show Federal Sleuths Balked by Death Accused Forger Killed in Coal Mine Accident Ends Thirteen-Month Thirteen Search Man Facing Government Indictment Eludes Pursuers Only to Die While Working in Carbon County D DEATH EATH cheated the law in the thirteen-month thirteen race for Lamoni Thomas Lawhorn Sought U hJ in many states of the West Vest he was wa alleged to have fled lIed r to Cuba only to r return turn to his native land and meet death in in a mine mine accident at Standardville on December 16 I And on Saturday Assistant United States District Attorney Edward M. M will ask that the case be abated and the matter matter mat mat- ter closed for tor it was a year ear ago age last month that Lawhorn wa was In Indicted indicted In- In by the federal grand Jury on a charge of having forged another another another an an- an- an other persons person's name to a money order J I I MOONSHINE BLAMED A moonshine liquor party patty Is 13 said said sa to have started the hunt that ended In Jn death two weeks ago The celebrators Included friends of ot Lawhorn In Price where he had I gone from his work worl at Columbia There Therel it was alleged he gained possession of a money order made out in favor of ot Thomas at the Springville postoffice Lawhorn Law Law- horn Is alleged to have forged name to the paper and cashed it at a Price store in payment payment pay pay- ment meat for a pair of shoes In time reported his his loss The money order paid and canceled was traced and through the store in Price it was learned that Lawhorn cashed the paper according to officers Thus the case was presented to the federal grand Jury in November November November Novem Novem- ber 1923 Lawhorn was Indicted A bench warrant was issued FLEES TWIN FALLS The search was on From a half dozen points Lawhorn was heard from Twin Pails Falls Ida reported I he was ther there ther A strict watch was placed on his mail but he apParently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap sensed the danger and fled It was sas the same in other places In Reno Nev he was the nearest nearest nearest near near- est to arrest and only a faux pasOn pas pason pason on the part of the postmaster gave gae him his liberty and the chance to return to the mines and to his I death Postal clerks had been giver given or orders orders or- or ders dora to detain Lawhorn if It he asked he-asked asked for his mall mail He lie wa wag v standing atthe at atthe atthe the window when the clerk cl rk quietly Informed the postmaster accordIng accordIng according accord accord- ing to reports But the latter talked to the sheriffs sheriff's office Insufficiently in insufficiently insufficiently sufficiently loud tone that Lawhorn Lawhorn Lawhorn Law- Law horn heard He fled TRACED TO COAL FIELDS Then he wrote his folks that he I was wa-s going to Cuba but the United Stater authorities never verified d I that hat move Lawhorn Lanhorn maneuvered in the mountain Intermountain territory In such a manner as to bring him to i Salt Lake and out again oftentimes oftentimes often- often times imes throwing his pursuers from his ils tracks At the time time- of ot his death he was waa known to be In Jn the Carbon coal district Lawhorn suffered a broken brok brol en neck and a fra fractured skull skulI In Inthe Inthe inthe the accident |