Show A COLD BLOODED MURDER man shot in the back of the head as he was reading a paper the assassination of john H fox by deputy sheriff joseph johnson and an attempt at lynching frustrated by sheriff dick davis and posse and later a race between the sheriff and posse with the prisoner for a special train and an angry and excited of 2 people bent on vengeance were the wild scenes enacted in trinidad colo saturday morning the assassination of fox was the most cold blooded mur der ever committed in las animas county fox was star ding at a desk in the lobby of the reading a newspaper his back to the door johnson entered six shooter in hand and without the least warning sneaked up behind fox and fired the bullet entered behind the left ear and came out of the forehead passing through a glass door into the elevator lobby grazing the head of a man standing in the elevator fox fell backwards dead and johnson coolly walking from the started toward the coun ty jail where he was arrested by an other deputy A mob of about 2 of the citizens quickly formed but the sheriff got johnson onto a special train and took him out of town |