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Show COMPLICITY li! SLAYING ntp County Attorney Considers Con-siders Form of Accusation Accu-sation After Interview With Detective Patten ISSUANCE ot a criminal complaint com-plaint aftainxt Joe Clark, room clerk at the Nord hotel, for alleged al-leged complicity in the gun fight Tuesday morning that resulted In the death of Detective J. B. Hornby and the bandit Tom Burns, alias Thomas Gleason. was taken under consideration con-sideration by County Attorney Arthur K. Moreton today. Clark ts being held I In the pltv tail What form the complaint would take hud not been determined at noon tr-day. tr-day. although It was definitely decided that a criminal charge - would - be brought and the man arraigned tomorrow. tomor-row. HELD RESPONSIBLE. Detective C V. Patten, credited with firing the first shot that hit the murderer mur-derer of Detective Hamhy. consulted with County Attorney Moreton and declared de-clared that he considered Clark responsible re-sponsible for the double killing. "1 asked Clark whether Burns wss in his room when we first entered the Nord." Detective Patten said. "Clark would give us no Information. He said Burns had occupied a room there, but that he had not sen him. Later, in a cell at the jail. Clark admitted he had sen Burns and that the man had been in and out of the Nord several times during the evening. 8HIELDED WOMAN. "If lie had answered me truthfully and told me that Burns was in the hotel. I would have called to Chief Burbidge. Chief Becksteud and Detective Detec-tive Humby. mho weie searching the hotel upstairs, and we would have sent word to Burns that the hotel was surrounded. sur-rounded. He would undoubtedly have come nut and surrendered without any bloodshed after such a mensaae. "As it was. Burns though there were only two or three men in the hotel and thought he could shoot his way out. "Clark's only excuse for his behavior was that Burns was living with ft I woman and thut he was tryipg t-J pro- tect the woman from arrest." j |