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Show KILLS BURGLAR WITH ONE SHOT I B i QEOROE HOWELL, Nineteen year old Ogden chauffeur, who was killed early tola morning in burglarising bur-glarising Wade drag store. From picture taken in morgue ssaxilslly far THE TELEGRAM. NEWKIRK'S AIM FATAL TOUOWELL Ogden Chauffeur, Caught in Act of Robbing Store, Is Hilled. BREAKING GLASS IS CAUSE OF DISCOVERY Rio Grande Special Agent Wounds Another Who Makes Escape. Lying in the morgue with a M call bar bullet hole immediately under hi heart is a boy, not mot than 19, or possibly SO, year of age, identified las George Howell of Ogden, who was hot to death at 1:50 o'clock this morning a he wss caught leaving th Wad drag store. 8T8 Went Second South street, by Special Agent O. W. N'ewkirk of the Denver as Bio Grand railroad. Two accomplice in th burglary bur-glary possibly older and more hardened hard-ened criminals escaped. The bullet penetrated th left side, death rnlt ing a half hoar later. Attracted by the sound of broken glass falling to the cemsnt sidewalk. Mrs. Newkirk, sleeping in an upstairs bedroom in a hows Immediately east of th Wad drug store, awoke her husband. Newkirk crept stealthily downstairs. "I carefully searched the downstairs down-stairs and made sure that they war not in th house. I then peeked out the back door to make sure ther war no 'lookouts,' and, finding son in th rear I looked out of ths front door. I could see lsshlights flieker through the windows on ths east aids of th store. 1 also saw the shadow of th man as they walked about la front of th win dowa," said Mr. H.wkirh. tkia ar continued: "I crept along th porch on my hands and knees to an alley between th houss mad th drug stor. After carefully glancing both op and down the passageway, to make sure no 'lookout' was watching, I stole to the viae and, on my hands and knees, crept to th corner of the store. Her I waited, lving oa my side, until the burglars inside would come oat. I waited fifty minutes before they appeared. ap-peared. The sound of an approaching buggy eould be heard. Oa of the burglar said, 'Here com some one. Let's best it.' Then one of them said: 'Ping '. plg " Fired at th Body. "Then I saw one of th men coming through the door. The plate glass In th window of the deer had been broken. Th one coming eat had one leg through and. i holding the screen door open, wees leaning forward and polling his othjr sssj out. I thooght to myself. This Is th time to get I h "My first thought we to ana at Ms head, but I was afraid I might miss him. I thought th best thing was to shoot Mm In the body I aimed at his left elde and H pjBJasSjssnav Bl'skJr w ssBssssfl ssssssslssssTh. I sssssOH O. W. NEWKIRK, Special Agent for th Denver U Rio Grande, who fatally wounded youth ha caught burglarising drug stor next hi home. fired. Just aa I fired he fen and then j lumped up and ran to the other aide of the sidewalk and again fall. Another man lumped out right after th man fell. 1 tired at him as hs tornsd the oornsr of th store. M gv aa awful rail which makes m believe I hit him also. A third man was In th narrow alleyway between our bouse and the drug store. I fired a couple of shots at him." Mr. Newkirk says he did not warn th j hoy before he shot as hs did not wish to take any chances. Hs said be knew there were mors than ooe and so he opened fire when th first on showed himoslf. . . " After I shot th en burglar and had Kt the other two te flight. I went Into th us to calm my wife and bad her telephone tele-phone th police. "What your nameT Nwkmc de- (Conttsnad on page TS KILLS BURGLAR (Tontinuad from pftg L) ma ml an" of tha boy. wnan ha cam a back to him. "1 won't tall." ha la nald lo have replied re-plied The wounded youth alao refuaed to a;lv the names of Ma accomplice when asked by Nawklrk. "Are you ffolnf to aand for tha wacon now?" ha aaked Newklrk. Whan told that lha police wtgon waa on tha way, tha wounded hoy uttered no more worda. He died In the emerarenry hospital at 4:35 o'clock t hi mornlna; without telling tha police hla name, or tha namea of tha other two man. A latter waa found in hla pocket ad dreaaed to Charlie Howell. 2:i Madlaon avenue. Offden. The rlothaa that tha boy wore bear an Ofden rlothlne; atore mark. Wi Not a "Dopa" Fiend. In tha boy's pocketa ware found three bottlea of morphine. Theaa hot t lee ware taken from tha drug atore. Tha dead youth waa clean rut In appearance and waa not a "dope fiend." according to Dr. H. B. Ppraa;ue, who examined the body thla mornlna. He haa lone curly brown hair, and Ma hands are calloused and hardened, which shows that ha haa done some hard work lately. The bullet made a blaj hole Just below the heart. The bullet atruck one of the larare veins leading from the heart and death came from loaa of blood. In the opinion of Dr. Spraarue. Realdea the three bottlea of morphine. SI t& and aome whlaky waa found missing j hy the proprietor of the drug store this Morning A bottle of whlnky was found tn the ditch to the weat pf the atore thla morning. It had been opened and a few drinka taken. Thoae who escaped ran northeast through tha block. Thev crossed fencea and paaaed through be,cti I lota Into Jeremy street and could eaally be traced that far The iollre are aearchlng for two men who (hey suspect were implicated im-plicated In the robbery which cauaed thai1 death of the Ogden youth. The body la at the morgue of Alcott- J Qualtrough. undertakers, and will be held for aereral days that parents or relatives of ihe boy will claim the body. |