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Show Patrolman shoots, lull fugitive The body of an Iowa man shot to death Friday near Beaver by a Utah Highway patrolman has been brough!: to Salt Lake City for a rou -ti.ie autopsy by the state medical examiner. Meanwhile, BeaverCounty officials are preparing to hold a coro.-iier's inquest into the shooting, according to Lt. Nei." Bishop of the Utah Highway Patrol. The victim, Gilbert Frank Stevens, 49, Estherville, was killed by shotgun buckshot fired from a distance of 12 feet by Trooper Billie M, Hunt, Parowan. Hunt had pulLid Stevens over following follow-ing an armed robbery at a service station a short distance dis-tance away about 2 p.m., Frid-'.y. Hunt said Stevens came out of his car holding a loaded .357 magnum revolver revolv-er and ignored repeated warnings to drop the weapon. Stevens, a railroad employe, em-ploye, disappeared about a week -igo and had been listed by his wife asamissingper-son, |