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Show PATIENT IS SHOT0OWN Smallpox Sufferer Tries to Escape and Is Killed i by Guard. CASTLE GATE, Utah, Jan. IS. A German Ger-man named Jacob Oman, quarantined for smallpox' at the old Ward hotel at Castle Gate, attempted to break the quarantine last evening. One of the ' quarantine guards, Hees A Lewis, shouted to him to stop, but Oman paid no attention to the warning. Finally the guard shot to frighten the escaping German, but - the bullet struck him la the head and Jellied I him Instantly. . This was the third time the man had attempted to break away from the quarantine. quar-antine. Monday night in trying to get away he pulled a gun and threatened to shoot the guard, but was finally persuaded to return. Last night he was trying to escape es-cape when he was stopped by a bullet. The guard maintains that he did not shoot to kill, but only to frighten. There are now four fjases of smallpox at Castle Gate. Two are located in an isolated pestbouse In Willow Creek canyon, can-yon, and two, a woman and a boy, at the hotel from which the German endeavored endeav-ored to escape. |