Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-03 | Page 1 | Holdup Stands over Victim's Body to Count Money

HOLDUP STANDS OVER TO COUNT MONEY MOB H Hotel tel Ie Keeper per S Shot ot Down When He Reaches for Revolver DELTA Cal Au Aug 3 A A masked robber robber rob rob- ber stood astride of the tho bod body of the theman theman theman man whom he bad murdered here last Jast night and tat el jin jingled lcd a handful handful hand hand- ful of l silver his reward for the kill kiJI iD jug ing Four ther other n men en in the barroom of Frank L. L Dimo Dimock k who lay dead on the floor stood with their hands bands up and their faces pressed against the wall rb fh robber counted the tho silver stepped d dover over the bod body and slipped noiselessly out of the door fh The little mountain town was aroused Within an an hour mountaineers were treading the ravines ravines and clambering over the rocks searching for the mur mur- derer I Lynching is threatened if theman tho the thoman thoman man is caught Dimock who kept the only onh hotel in Delta Delta had been a to prominent business and mining man nian in in Shasta and Trinity counties for twenty five years ears Ho lie was 55 J 5 years cau old His hotel was as a favorite rendezvous for the men tileD of the tho town i and ind the four who saw him hint killed were his old friends friends The r robber shot hot him when Dimock r reached for fora a revolver