Show MESTAS SHOT THROUGH J 3 BY DEPUTY DAVIS AS OF WILD DRINKING PARTY id mestas a mexican about 35 of age was shot and instantly eby deputy sheriff richard at thompsons Thomp sons friday night as of a wild drinking party ilMe atas and three other dexl were staging at a bouse in the a part of town the deputy who was called by citizens to the disturbance was defied by mexicans and mestas after ining the officer made a move tor a gun or knife the his revolver and shot the the ball entering his left temple g instant death occurred about 11 30 deputy dails had gone he was called by citizens guthat a group of mexicans were g a riot at a house about a block rathe thompsons Thomp sons hotel dails yf dressed and left forthe scene ahe found four mexicans edgag a drunken brawl he told them tet down and the four are alto have started toward him as mob him mestas who was in ad asked who dails was and fleer replied that he was the mestas Is said to have 1 I have killed a lot of you tb sheriffs and he placed hand in his pocket as if to or knife dails inured and mestas fell his hand till in his pocket after he drop tithe ground dead riff J B of moab was lately notified of the killing left at once for thompsons Thomp sons E ailed by county attorney 0 coroner 0 L christensen bounty physician I 1 W alien ity dails after the homicide reel at the scene to guard the body arthe officers reached thomp they did not know where the was located and dails seeing ar lights left alg pos direct to the spot when the party atthe body it had been tamp rith as mestas s hand had been S from his pocket A gallon jug i ne which had been lying a few born the body had also been re tr 1 T coroners inquest was immediately y before coroner christensen A composed of joseph L taylor ill dubols and albert beach the evidence in the case and rea verdict of justifiable homlin the ground of self defense aree mexicans companions of aln the drunken brawl pieced s shooting all told conflicting they admitted on the stand i icy had tampered with the body tas during the deputy sheriff s eland had taken the dead man s ut of his pocket the belief of the officers that s pockets were rifled during the y il of the deputy as a search of J ibets by the coroners jury failed 3 al any money or other articles S a letter which was addressed to A band had been mailed from ac colo a few days before the S written in spanish was transit and proved to be merely a strangely and for no at reason the name of the rj B was written outside of the folded letter jang Is known about mestas ex hat he was supposed to have rom san louis valley colo dy was brought to moab satur oming and burial took place fliday ig the sheep shearing season ended this week thompsons Thomp sons n crowded with mexicans and had been expected many of cleans had been quarrelsome auly prior to the fatal ending ay nights revelry aby sheriff dails has been a thompsons Thomp sons for the past rs he Is known as a quiet if man and two months ago pointed a deputy under sheriff |