Show C L MAXWELL IS KILLED KI B BY V 0 DEPUTY arl PUT A T SHERIFF JOHNSTONE JOHNST ONE coroner s jury finds that of aicer shot outlaw in self defense id As when the missourians Missour ians mother ln in law died no complaint everyone satisfied maxwells history C L maxadell Ma MaxA ell bank robber e convict outlaw and man of manval babes u was aschot shot and instantly killed at price about 5 clock last monday i afternoon by edward elard johnstone John a depute deput sheriff the tragedy occurred on the street about halfway between beef en the sixt six old senate saloon and the county court boub on the north side of the tracks track soi of the denver den cr and kio rio grande railroad maxwells body is being interred at salt lake city toda An came here tuesday at the instance of sam C king the attorney atto iney who ho represents mrs maxwell or mrs seaman aa as the dead man was wa known for the past ear or so at the inquest on tuesday Tue day morning johnstone John tone was as exonerated the testimony showing that he shot maxwell in belf de fene fenc justice nelms of price precinct conducted the inquest tl e jury being george gcorge G franden frand Fran en e ex bishop john bottei and peter anderson there were in all twelve witnesses es to give testimony the greatest greate bt regret expressed is that the killing should have hae taken place at price MAXWELL PULLS HIS AUTOMATIC alax maxwell ell at a i lived i ed in price monday morning coming here from spring glen it soon developed that he was sore on himself and everybody else freand he and deputy sheriff johnstone met at the oasis haloon baloon later special agent thomas hurge burge of the tile denver and rio grande passed the th e place when maxwell spoke to johnstone saying that burge was the man he AlaxA maxwell ell aa was after prefacing his remark with an oath and a vile epithet against burge little attention was aa paid to the matter by johnstone or others pr press ebent later maxwell wanted johnsone John tone to accompany him tu to the sixty six saloon but this johnstone declined to do when maxwell maxell began to banter johnstone about being ashamed to fo rn f o on the street with him after some disc nation johnstone linstone Jo agreed to accompany company ic maxwell they had gotten across the railroad tracks from the oasis when maxwell told johnstone he johnstone tone nc was really the man mail lie was after because of the lattern latt erlb erb having tut tinned ned him ka auwell Mu P well up on the green river job and one at Kenil wot th tit at this thi time e the men were ten feet apart having become separated during their argument maxwell axell Nf at the time drew his sun gun nn an automatic when johnstone Johr stone warned him to put it back in its d instead of doing so maxwell II fi d on johnstone the tile ball passing through john stones hirt shirt near the waistline and 1 coming out through his coat cout at tit the breast pocket with this johnstone john atone tired the lull ball grazing maxwells iNIn mell i left shoulder the second shot penetrated max wells ells heart while the tile third struck him in of the right breast either one of the second or third kliots was fatal after the second shot hot maxwell max ell fell dropping his 1114 gull and was in the tile net act of tr trying im imor or to shoot again when Johnston crt third bullet put him to the tile bad johnstone ran rail ui up and waa was going to wrest maxwells gun from him when the latter exclaimed dont ashoot again johnstone you have lime killed mei me I maxwell expired in le less ii time than it takes to tell it his body was avi then removed to the district court room at tit the court house during the wrangle in going from front the oasis towards the sixty six saloon maxwell m assured sure d johnstone that if he should kill the latter nothing would be done with him in carbon county there was much other talk along the same lines 1 MAXWELL HIDING AT SPRING GLEN the are aware mardof of the fact that for three or four days previous to his coming to price that maxwell was in hiding around spring glen this i is taken to mean that he lie waa was p planning lanning the iob lery of the paymaster at kenilworth maxwells principal grievance against deputy sheriff johnstone is believed to by be the fact that johnstone Johns tono became aware of the intention of maxwell and other others to rob kenilworth and possibly the tile state hank flank of green river these matters maxwell maxell anrew up to johnstone just previous to the J shooting maxwell was to have had a further hearing at castle dale within a few days for some trouble he recently had at tit green river and at time there was considerable talk of a lynching not long since the dead man eted cd an tin alleged debt down near green river amounting to about thirty dollars at the point of a aix six shooter but was cleared c ci hia his cl charge arge DEAD MAN FOUND TO BE HOP FIEND not until maxwells body was as leing prepared lor burial did anyone suspect that ho he was a drug fiend however ins his left arm flom the wrist to the shoulder and around as far as he fie could reach with ith his light ight i hand was punctured with a hypodermic syringe white while in his pockets was as found a quantity of gum opium this condition was not in evidence at the time lie had a duel at helper with reidel a railroad man for at that lime time this portion of us its body vaa vas exposed that the surgeon might dress hi hix wounds among his other on fon baffe 4 1 MAXWELL IS KILLED BY DEPUTY DEPUT 1 11 SHERIFF JOHNSTONE concluded from page one effects was wag a false moustache and a number of pa pawn it tickets on salt lake city throe three balls business bu giness men these tickets gave no indication of the goods pledged les than four doll dollies in silver was wai found on his person JOHNSTONE I 1 SOUTHERN STATES deputy sheriff ed johnstone Johna tono first came to utah from west virginia about seven yeara years ago working about the clear creek mines for a time he lie is the son of the late hugh johnstone and a brother in law of mark beatty former manager of the wasatch store company at clear creek his mother resides with mrs beatty at salt lake city while a younger brother is employed at cleir clear creek evious Pi to coming to utah johnstone was an officer in the south being identified with the internal I 1 cac nue service not long since heedt he went through the tile strike tiou troubles bles in nevada where he lie shot and later spent some eight months in a hospital at salt lake city coming here about two months since to do some special work for sheriff keltai in carbon county ho ile is about 35 yeara years of age modest and of a retiring disposition he ile is one of the last men in the boila that would be picked out for a gun fighter while at goldfield johnstone identified to the slie sheriff riff there at the lattera request maxwell maxell as an ex convict maxwell was nas then going under the name of 11 0 bliss this was wag a grudge held against johnstone by maxwell FROM WYOMING TO THIS COUNTRY maxwell came from the tile east to wyoming twenty five vears bears ago it is baid thai that his parents were belito do people in boston and that he lie left thereafter there after becoming involved in a saloon brawl which ended in the shooting hooting of hk hi com companion panon who died ho he immediately lately entered upon a career of crime and became identified with a gang of cattle thieves wl rode the ranges driving off cattle and gambled on the side he lie followed this life until the gang was bi bicken up in 1892 and some soine of its members killed soon af afterwards ter wards he was as convicted of grand larceny in wyoming and was sentenced to serve fi five e cars in the state prison he lie began his sentence tence on july 5 1893 but vi as released three years later by the board of pardons then he came to utah where he lie li lived lied ed on the uintah reservation while in that country he married ada shaw of vernal mrs shaws daughter is now married to tt soldier at fort douglas three years ago he lie went to goldfield where he was employed by the mine owners as a spy against the strikers ther he ile joined the union worked in the mine mines i attended the meetings of the union and then made a daily adaily jet ier brithe to the mine owners while he lie re rc he v was as mixed up in the of joseph smitha smith a restaurant keeper and was indicted ho ito turned states evidence in the ca e and was not prosecuted shortly afterward he be returned to carbon county he ile celebrated his return by shooting up the town of helper in july 1907 he attacked L C alei 1 del a railroad man both men were seriously wounded but recovered maxwell was discharged after a hearing and nothing brn was as done in the MARRIES WIDOW IN SAN FRANCISCO after the tile helper trouble maxwell went back to nevada and later to san francisco where lie married mrs bessie tunic under the name of seaman the woman being the widow of a canner in alaska and possessed of considerable property in california and elsewhere on their honeymoon maxwell became acquainted at reno nov nev with E R burke convict ex and all round confidence man inan A duel ensued with pistols but in the meantime they had robbed mrs seaman of considerable jewelry later most of the was recovered in pawnshops maxwell visited salt lake city after af ter the jewelry it delry was recovered he lie made a gunplay in a barroom but it buy him anything nothing was done cither either towards maxwells arrest about a year ago maxwell went back to san francisco and efel effected a reconciliation with his wife nife whom he lie brought to ogden and which place they have called home since since while mr maxwell remained there the outlaw made numerous trips to carbon county and elsewhere on of mining bus business incEs maxwell was N as one of two robbers who held up a bank at Spring springville ville in c 08 03 when his accomplice was killed and aad one or two officers wounded maxwell was captured and sentenced to eighteen years year in the state prison live years later he a assisted the prison guards in defeating a jail delivery and was i ewal ded for his action with a pardon since that time At maxwell axwell had been implicated in a number of holdups and robberies he ile has to his credit one rine stage holdup in nevada HP he has also passed hundreds of dollars worth orth of bogus checks he ile escaped prosecution in nearly every case u and was levei convicted WOMEN SCRAPPING OVER THE ESTATE sheriff kelter went nent in on the same tram train tuesday e evening ening that carried maxwells remains returning last night to price while there he turned over to mrs seaman the tile pawn tickets for diamonds found on maxwell and the other small effects preparations were ere being made to bury the body at 6 last evening sam C king represents mrs airs ada shaw maxwell and there promises to be a fight over the tile dead mana man small possessions consisting of some personal property in the shape of mining stocks some mining claims in nevada and others on the colorado river and elsewhere deputy sheriff johnstone went in to salt lake city this morning to i visit his mother and other relatives MARK P BRAFFET TALKS ABOUT HIS BODYGUARD during the turbulent period which marked the strike of the coal miners employed by tho the utah fuel company compan in 1903 there were riots and considerable property was threaten caten ed by the strikers the utah fuel company maintained a corps of men sworn in in as special deputy sheriffs for the protection of their property andoe and of the strikebreakers who were rushel rushed into the coal camp from the agricultural section and from outside the state mark alark P braffet attorney for the utah fuel company vas was one of the officials who was w w detailed to duty at the scene of the strike to protect the interests in the courts of carbon county Draff craffets ets life was threatened on a number of occasions ca and a special deputy sheriff was detailed to act as his personal escort and bodi guard this thili bod bodyguard was as max maxwell ell who ito was N as selected because of his fearlessness w nen firearms were the th media of ot the exchange of persona personalities litie there I 1 is always a kind of halo thrown ablat abb u the th lead of a dead desperado or outlaw says a i braffet 1 I do not want nant tn t bo considered in any bense sense as az beaving of such a halo about an outlaws head nor to be considered as sanctioning the acts in the turbulent life of 11 maxwell axwell at the same time I 1 do not like to say unpleasant things about the dead of course I 1 maxwell maev ell was an outlaw he lie was in more or less trouble in eastern utah for many years wherever hp be went I 1 know nothing of his history ariot to his appearance there but understood that he had a record earlier than that maxwell was as employed in n the guard service by the utah fuel company during the big strike of 1903 and he always rendered loal service to his employers he was a most energetic man nd if his energies 9 ies had been directed toward a le end he would have been a big man and a good one his reputation was so infernally unsavory though thou gli that even for his good service ervice to his employers I 1 cannot attempt to justify his conduct the days of his service as a guard were filled with trouble ard turbulence le ce and on a great many occasions he showed that he possessed an iron nerve and an indomitable will he had no fear of the law nor of any man he possessed many of the tile qualities that go to make makeup up an ideal off officer licer and fur for some sometime time af after ter these troubles he lie settled down with the apparent intention of becoming a good citizen but maxwell always had an idea that personal differences should be settled with nith shooters six and in no other way and his views along this line were somewhat bigoted he was a hard drinker at times and when in his cups was nas a bad customer he ile was very much anclin inclined ed to make enemies when he was drinking 1 and he generally went nent out to adjust his tits along the lines line of primary principles without Nit hout giving an opportunity of maxwell was wag a bad man in many respects but was a good servant |