| Show LI 11 ta hilAN KILLS kl L L S REYNOLDS ak eanos El I 1 NOS L went to moffat to murder J T tom nichols formerly of price captured and now at post hospital MITON utah july SO 30 last saturday at moffat bob reynolds vi was as shot and killed by the indian tabby white reynolds wai shot in the stomach and right bre st and died almost instantly reynolds hot the indian twice t ice before becoming cl pless hitting him in the jaw and on one orie ar id his ills u k hinds however ill probable proba not riot giove piove pt m e fatal A jury at nt the inquest held monday found thit the killing of reynolds as done with ith m milice ilice aforethought and premeditation and rind that tabby white a guilty of murder in the first deame the shooting occurred over the fact that attorney J A k wilson of vernil h to oe at moffat on leal legal busine a it pema thit some iome years ago wilon wm the p ing attorney torney nt in a c cisa re against tubby tabby white and in the indian was fined saturday tabby hud had secured some ind wai wa 3 cited when heran he ran across a the vernal attorney Pull pulling irig hi im bizun a on him he deman demanda dd that he tepa to him hirn the ahne b the court reynolds re and told the indian not to shout i thereupon V the 1 latter replied well I 1 will nill shoot you then for luck A lie opened fire on the white man shooting four reynolds re turned the fusillade with three shots hots although already mortally wounded tabby white is no novi lying at the post hot hospital pital and at this time there stems to be but little question that he will N it I 1 recover from the effects of hia his two wounds the deceased is an old time resi rest dent of ustah county and has resided here since th the opening at alof fat where he ha dealt a great deal with the indians lie leaves a w wife ife and beveral several chiloro n tabby white has tha reputation of being a ard bpd injun when drinking alt although bough peaceable enough when unable to secure firewater lie has been in a number of s t ules he lie la Is comparatively ively a young indian and went to school at grand junction in the event he ae I 1 in jt condition to be moved tabby white will have hia his preliminary examination this week the indian claims self defense lie ile says reynolds fired the first eho tom nichols of tho the firm of nich oh donaldson states that the indian came to moffat with the intention of lilling hilling him nichola nichols he says that he was advised by reynolds white h hid 0 made tho the talk that ho le was on his its way to kill irn 1 and that after having received the warning he arwed himself with a shooter six when tabby white came to town ton he remained in the store behind tho the counter count ci keeping his gun in his hand his ills wife happened to come into the store and seeing the in her husbands hand became frightened and went into hysterics nichola nichols put down his gun and went tu to the house with her in the meantime reynolds saw the indian holding up attorney wilson the latter was frisking himself and when reynolds came up had put something like sixteen dollars on a rocc at the indians dictation reynolds spoke to tabby wh white ite and told him to leave wilson alone haying that he was f r good white man this angered tl tf tle e indian at reynolds and pointing the gun which had covered the vernal attorney at reynolds said he bould shoot him Fay lost n time in getting around the Is store tore building corner he ile was unarmed but immediately got the gun which nichols had left in the store emerging from the store the indian at once opened fire on him and the first shot which entered the right breast and caroe came scarly out of hia his back would have proved fatal notwithstanding hia his mortal wound returned the fire and shot three times |
