Deseret Evening News | 1904-01-12 | Page 1 | Dire Tragedy at Moab, Utah

DIRE m T TRAGEDY Gm GmT AT T Mij MOAB B UTAH E r 1 D Empey Shot and Killed By Town Marshal Bohny This Morning VICTIM WAS UNDER ARREST Particulars are art Meaner Iea cr and it ft Appears App lie He Slight Have The Ilic Officer NEWS VIA THOMPSON SPRINGS Scene of Shooting Miles from That Chat on The rand Grand I to the tho ew Hub via Thompson Springs rIngs J Jn n D r J an itt It this place pla o i lit J this morning b Town Marshal Joseph Jos ph Bohny under meet arrest Particulars will follow Collow It H will be seen een from Crom the that Information Is IB very ery meager mcager and that the thc cause calse of the th killing can only be tho Ito prisoner resisted t anti killed during the tho encounter There Is I no tele telegraphic telegraphic telegraphIc graphic communication with Ith the presumption Is li that the tho news of oC the tragedy tra ed was wa 05 brought to Thompson Springs by b mounted courier who must mu t have ridden with nfl all possible to tho th railroad station from which point the brief brIer statement herewith given was va telegraphed to the tho News Moab oab Is situated on the Grand Orand river In the southern part lart of Grand county count of or which It Is III the tho count county scat It H IH III I 35 3 miles of Thompson Springs on the Hlo lUo Grande railroad tho the near nearest est ut t point and Is I about miles from this thiN dt On receipt r of the dispatch the Sews Ird for tor tho the full details of oC tho the story II so far Its liS s they the Ire are Known at M Thompsons nI atul these may limy reme me at any nn moment