Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-11-26 | Page 1 | S. L. Mother Will Claim Body of Slain Trainman

Robber Pair Sees Little Chance to Escape Law ill p - -? I:. in 'III " '' I " - HELD IN SLAYING OF RAILROAD TRAINMAN IN HOLDUP ATTEMPT Henry Lorenr, left; Harry Dwyer..."W cant 'beat too taw" X -AcJ - 'sir ? m U' W : ...-4? 1 OiLaalalW :.llVa f' wMUs WILLIS L. SMITH Mother ia Salt Laker MAKES READY FOR SAD JOL'RNEY Mrs. Virginia Gull... Her son was slain S. L. Mother Will Claim Body of Slain Trainman I Victim of Railroad Bandits Had Visited in Utah; Wife 111 in Hospital Mrs. Virginia Gull, 732 South FirKt Wet .street, prepared Friday Fri-day for i sad journey to El Pa.o, Texas, a journey for which a Oklshoma. His father died eight ( years ago. Funeral plans swsit ths mother's 'arrival at Kl Paso. Mr.'Smith was , a member of the Klka lodge and the j Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Mr. Smith is survived, besides his i mother snd sister, by two brothers, j Carl Smith. Cincinnati, and James Smith, Wichita. Kan., and a step-i step-i sister, Thora Gull of Salt Lake City. mother's fortitude is ready. Mrs. Gull is the mother of Willis L Smith, trainman murdered when two bandits held up the Southern Pacific "Apache" near El Paso Thursday. There, she will claim the body of her son. ! Mrs. Gull was bearing up well under the shock. She sat in her'liv-ingroom her'liv-ingroom and told about her son. "He was always so full of fun and he hsd so msny friends." she said. "I can't realize that he's gone." Mrs. Gull, with a daughter. Mrs. Edith Kemmer of Casper. Wyo., will leave for Texas Friday night. "It's very hard to sit snd wait until we leave." she said. "I feel so sorry for Will's poor sick wife." Mrs. Smith is ill in sn El Psso bespits!, her mother-in-lsw said-Mr. said-Mr. Smith. 3S. had never resided in Salt Lake City, but had visited here. The laM time was in 1M8 Mra. Smith last saw her son ia lltii, in