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Show GUARD BATTLES TWO INTRUDERS Shots Rout Fox Farm Marauders Jess Buckley, night wstchman at a West Jordan fox farm, Friday Fri-day had a standing engagement with a dentist and was recheck-ing recheck-ing the "sights" on his service revolver. re-volver. Mr. Buckley's sole consolation was the fact that he had prevented two thugs, who, incidentally, were responsible re-sponsible for the watchman's battered bat-tered countenance, from getting away with any foxes or parts of a valuable shipment of pelts awaiting transfer to a Salt Lake City warehouse. ware-house. At 3:30 a. m., while the watchman watch-man was making his rounds of the farm, he later reported to Deputy .Sheriffs George Bills and L. D.i Richardson, he waa attacked from behind by two intruders. A brief but fierce struggle fol-; lowed, in which Mr. Buckley's! teeth were loosened by blows to! the fare and jaw and bis nose bloodied. . As the watchman freed his right srm, however, snd drew bis revolver, re-volver, the assailants gave up the struggle and fled into the darkness toward the near-by highway. The watchman told officers he fired nine times in the direction of the rapidly-moving thugs. Check of the area by the deputy sheriffs, however, failed to reveat any indication indi-cation that the bullets hsd found their human targets. Bruce A. Hartman. official of the fox f srm. .moved the pelts later to a storage vault in Salt Lake City, and said that likely the guard around the kennels would be doubled dou-bled if there were any mors attempts at-tempts at pilfering. |