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Show BANDIT KILLED HERE WAS ARMY DESERTER According to a letter received here Tuesday by Sheriff Wm. Brooks from the Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Jus-tice, Jesse D. Self, the bandit killed kill-ed here on November 7, among other things was a deserter from the army. The identification was by means of fingerprints taken here of the dead man. According to the letter Jesse D. Self was received at the United States disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on March 31, 1926, from Fort Sam Houston,' Texas. Crime desertion. As Jesse Self, he was received at the state penitentiary, Parchman, Miss., on February 12, 1928, from Leflore county, under a three year sentence for grand larceny. A letter received from R. H. Woot-ton, Woot-ton, of the criminal identification and investigation bureau of the state of Utah, X D. Snyder, who was captured here, was sentenced to the Mississippi state prison for three years on a burglary charge. Tlie car in which the gang was riding when they came to St. George in the early morning of November 7, and which was stolen by them at Tunica, Miss., is beuig held here awaiting disposition by the insurance people. |