Show tICE ICE DIES I N b 4 t erce Succumbs to I 1 Inflicted by Des- Des After Lengthy 6 for His Life i ING OCCURRED I NOVEMBER 27 n and Arthur w in Prison Abery joery Wi Will Face ace 3 of Murder so 50 ces ices for Sergeant ICe ce will be held Wednes Wednes- oon at the Masonic tern tem hou hour Kour t to be announced pallbearers pa bearers will mb rs of the Police Mui Mu- Mu i soci tion who are also alco tOl ot N N. P. P PI Pierce j i hot on n November 27 21 last Jast George F F. Lopped Bopped George Allen and on Main street be- be and Sixth South 3 Tat dot the Holy Cross hos- hos this morning complaint charging Allen 1 murder in the first JB today by the theom om orney orny Y It was sworn to BeCkstead 1 chief o oThey of or orThey They will be arraigned ty dge Noel S S. S Pratt dc ck Tuesday morning Unito Unito Un- Un ito statutes Pierce would to live more than a reary year rear y I in order for them to toi i murder charge ho confessed to shooting Pierce broke down today t when he was victim had died Utterly and expressed his h having having caused vin caused the oUt oUt- h. h He was placed In Inte a ae te e death tier in ordinarily are placed g execution This p request of or Detec- Detec r Wire S J also forbidden to com com- with other prisoners but buth butth th h death tier The po- po a further Invest Invest- dithe case and may In- In later In the wrence Allen Georges George's wh h whorls Is also known a as asSle IH Het lt t Is reported to be beP I P Pueblo Colo Cob charged away robbery robben He was in Los s Angeles following log or Pierce He lIe Is La said In no way in thea tho the a another man testified nd y ung Allen spent the the he Shooting In the base- base the Jail where they coming corning to Salt Lake both had participated crimes which Included old ps In Colorado On pleaded guilty to tol l i of or W. 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H Mur- Mur near Becks Beck's og were each given in- in In the state IJ dge Ephraim Hanson bird district court He lie Here re recommendation that tha the Ders serve sere life lire sen- sen CONFESS CONFESSES ES aes were arrested as asIn In with the theO O a 0 few hours after lb t It was not until a 0 amore more later that the police nt as able oble to wring a alfrom All Aura Allen n that ho fired which finally proved fatal total A shot shortly after atter by byone oyone one of ot two bandits who 1 and Patrolman i searching I that I Uhe city for tor holdup sus- sus 1 an hour before to not far from assault wore wro walking suspicious auspicious charac charac- cached them from the op op- TI A As tho the four tour came canle camo iere i- i ie e halted the tho two BUS BUS- th them m where they en Ailen answered None business drew his pistol the he policemen to hands Pierce did and Jy Irla Yand as he ho stepped back coat to draw his f FAllen lAllen fired The bullet erco's leree's back severed the lodged upward to to lung He Ito fell ft and on n page 8 S. S SL l. l SERGEANT Continued from page pagO 1 Allens Allen's companion ran from the scene Allen quick to cover Watson Watson Wat Yat son ordered the patrolman to walk ahe ahead ad with hands up to a n vacant lot where the man with the gun forced Watson Vatson to crawl under a n. ten fence eV e V With Watson down clown on his hla hands and I kne knees 8 Allen wrested the tho patrolman's patrolman's patrolman's pa pa- pistol from him and with it beat him into Insensibility PAIR CAPTURED Allen made his way to the tho Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin house where he met Hayes and told him that he had just bumped off oft a IL policeman That morning Allen told Hayes that he had hidden Watsons Watson's gun his own pistol and an overcoat behind a fence tence In Postoffice place and asked aske Hayes to accompany him to re recover recover recover re- re cover tho the cache It was while Hayes Haye stood guard Juard and Allen Alien went Int Into the lot that the arrest was made The hidden pistols and overcoat had been discovered earlier in th the day by a citizen who notified th the police pollee Detectives put o on and when Allen AlIen and Hayes Haye appeared their arrest was a sImple matter After a IL weeks week's constant questionIng question question- I Ing by the tho force Allen made a confession In which h he said that Hayes shot ahot Pierce an and that he Allen Alien fled tIed from the scene seen when the officer fell tell Hayes of offered offered of- of an alibi He lIe said Bald that he had participated In the of Mur lur Mur- Mur I phy in tho the automobile n near nar ar Becks Beck's Hot Springs a fo to before the shooting He lIe said sUd he had been thrown from tho the running board o of Murphys Murphy's machine when the latter ran the automobile into a streetcar and so badly Injured his hand that tha It Jt wa was impossible for him to go out again that night CHANGES STORY Allen stuck to his confession conCession over night but the next day he voluntarily voluntarily voluntarily vol vol- asked to change his story He lIe then confessed to the shooting and exonerated Hay Hayes s so far tar as the Pierce assault was concerned Al Allen Allen Al- Al Allen len said that he ha was accompanied by another man when he shot Pierce It was intimated that hi his companion was his own brother Lawrence Allen alias Hett Hett Ilett was In Salt Lake a few tew days prior to the tte shooting of Pierce The police refused to believe that Hayes was innocent of the Pierce shooting and when the assault complaints were signed both Allen and and Hayes were Jointly accused A few tew weeks ago Allen Alien and Hayes Haye were taken Into the presence of the I wounded policeman and he positively positively post post- Identified them as his assail assail- ants Ho Ire singled out Allen Alien as the theman theman theman man who shot him and recognized Hayes as the companion ON FORCE 16 YEARS Sergeant Pierce was 63 53 years old He had been a member or of the local police force torce for sixteen years He was first appointed a sergeant under Chief S. S M. M Barlow was demoted demoted demoted de de- de- de to grade of Patrolman under Chief B. B F. F Grant but under Chief Shores he resumed the rank of sergeant which he held at the time of ot death In 1898 Sergeant Pierce was married to Marie Lorentzen at Castle Dale in Emery county He took up a it homestead ad in that vIcinIty vicin vIcin- ity where he lived until 1900 ComIng Com Corn ing tag to Salt Lake he entered the employ of the street railway later going to the police pollee department He Hews was ws a member of the Masonic or order order or- or der and the Modern Woodmen of ot I Am America Besides his widow he Is sur survived sur sui Ived by two sisters Mrs Moe Robert Irv Irvine n and Mrs J. J Combow and andone andone andone one brother J. J G. G Pierce Chief Beckstead said that In the passing of ot Sergeant Pierce the city had lost one of its Ita most efficient effi elI dent clent officers SEVENTH OFFICER DIES IN DUTY PERFORMANCE Sergeant Sers N. N P P. PIerce Is ls the seventh seventh sev sev- Salt Lake police officer to b be murdered while in performance of ot their duties Of Ot their slayers one was lynched lynche two were killed resIstIng resisting resIst resIst- Ing arrest arrest One escaPed and three were given their liberty by the board of or pardons Hayes and Allen killers of PIerce are yet to be tried for murder City Marshal Andrew J. J Burt was 0 shot n and M killed August 23 1883 by a a. negro who he attempted to take Into custody at Second South and Main street The slayer was ta taken en to the city jail but V a few hours ouS later was removed by a mob and lynched Patrolman Iman Charles F FO Ford rd d serving his ls first shift on the police force was shot and killed by the he Albany I hotel holdups Sullivan and Garcia near streets Fourth West and First South South on the night of December 14 14 1907 1901 Garcia was killed while r i i resisting arrest at Seattle Wash some some weeks later Sullivan was mi trIed sentenced to life fe Imprison imprison- ment meat and subsequently p by the state board of pardons RILEY KILLED IN 1909 Special Officer C. C C a Riley w was shot and killed bj L. L E. E Driscoll on October State io 10 10 1909 by street just below First South was sentenced to life lite Imprisonment but was Clemency bo board granted of pardons clemency by toy tn till state Sergeant Henry John Johnston ton was hot and killed July 15 1911 mer bv by E Elmer Elmer El- El nie mer Dewey in a West Vest Temple street hotel Dewey first sentenced to life imprisonment secured an indeterminate minate sentence at a second trial and was finally given I his liberty by the state board of ot pardons Officer Thomas Griffith was shot sho and killed June 27 27 1913 by Frank Frankw Anselmo near Second near South and I First w West Vest streets given I an a indeterminate Ansel Anselmo was sentence was denied pardon by the state board and ater escaped from a road gang gans- near PrIce Utah BANDIT KILLS HAMBY City Detective Green B. B Hamby was shot and killed by Tom Black Ie Burns February 8 8 1921 Burns leader of ot a bandit gang was wall resisting arrest from fin a IL room In a a a. Second South street rooming house Patten e As Hamby fired fell fatally Detective Clifford wounding the outlaw outlay Burns' Burns followers are servIng serving f Ing Indeterminate sentences in ln the tv tte te prison Sergeant N. N P. P Pierce shot NoS November No- No S vember 27 1922 at MaIn and Firth Fifth South str streets tEl died at a local hospital hospi- hospi tat tal tOda todar His slayers l Hayes and amI Allen confined In the state prison under recommendation of life liCe Imprisonment Imprisonment Im Im- Im on a robbery charge Slide will wUl face trial M f for r first degree ur h er |