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Show UTAH DESPERADO IS KILLED AFTER MURDERING MAIJ Surprised at Sugar Factory Camp, He Opens Fire on Salesman, Flees and ' Is Shot Down by Posse THREATENS ANOTHER I MAN HE MEETS LATER Sheriffs Force Closes In on Slayer and Corners Him in Cemetery; Murderer Intended to "Get" Officer DELTA. Oct. . Or.Ho M.Rico and F. I Roaa died today In man hunt In which H waa sought to run down Rico, who escaped from tha Fillmore county jail tan 1aya aa-o. Koae, an automholla mlesman. waa requested by Sheriff F. H. Hlark to taka him to a houao In the Mexican ' camp at tha auitar factory, wher It waa learned that tha fugitive waa In hiding. Aa Koae entered the houao ahead of tha ehcrlff, he waa ahot four tlmea by Rico. Koae died In a ahort time. Rico then fled and naif a mile from the factory held up Krneet Hlarkman. who waa coming to town, threatening to kill him If he advised the office,, that he had aeen him. At that lime Rico waa armed with two revolvera and a rifle. A poaoe waa quickly formed and Rico waa eurrounded in the cemetery. Rico refuaed to aurrender end the poeae opened fir. He fell mortally wounded, dying at 1:20 p. m., or two . houra after the alaylng of Roae. Roae waa to yeara old. He leave a wife and a child. It waa reported here Saturday that Rico waa in hiding hid-ing In the local Mexican camp and that he had aaid that he Intended to lay there until he "ot'"tetn-TT." lor, the officer who ehot htm a few montha ago when he waa arrested after having ahot Officer Williamson at lAnadyl. |