Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-20 | Page 6 | Arrested a Minute after the Shooting

ARRESTED A MINUTE AFTER THE SHOOTING CHICAGO GO Jan 20 Vito Vio O.-Vio Vito au Italian was s. s shot dead lead i in an alley Hc early carl today W Within thil one minute a suspect was al under arrest arest Policemen wore one ono block ami away when hen they they- heard beard three shots hots They sprinted to the acene found s o v with three bullet bulet holes in iu the neck and caught Joseph ci another Italian IWho t who was wa running from tho rho all al allay y The policemen then picked up a n rifle rife which was Ras wa lying jn beside the body denied however that he was wasi i the IJ slayer J of gasoline asoline Thorne Thome who was in chr charge e of tae the engine engino went back bark to ins inspect He struck a i match Itch and there then was a sudden whiff of flame he lie says which knocked him over onT the tho side ill of 01 the boat The fame flames shot clear to the bow bon setting their clothes on fr lire fire Hall Hal and Townsend Townsend Town Town- send leaped into the water While the Hie men Wf wore were struggling in tho river ri er there was WS a loud report an the entire entire en en- tire launch wont event nt up in iu th the airI air Air I 1 was half strangled said haul Hall HaJ I I I could not swim and w was struggling fiercely to keep hoo the water Thome Thorne Thore finally grabbed 1 me pulled my mouth above o wal water r and dragged me until wo we reached the tho shore shoe We Ve e hoard heard Town Town- s nl calling for fot nil aid and wad waded wied d into the thet J t river and pulled puHl him ashore The Joen inen men had landed on Ursina i island which j is low and marshy and sixteen miles long Jong Townsend set act ct off of anti and fin fn ally nH found a hut lail t Then hen I knocked at the door he said a man with wih a gUn gUl in his hand poked his head hrad front from rom the window and asked mo what I 1 wanted I told toM him RUt the He Ile laughed and said aid story Imir I I know you ou are from tho the prison Ther Theres There's s 's no one ono else clo on this island G Git I and got do co it i quick J J JI The wrecked wreck cd men eventually eventual reached the prison stockade when they narrowly narrowly narrow narrow- larow I ly escaped being bein shot but were finally admitted and taken earn caro of