Show night police policeman man robertson robert soil killed at court house W W door YN de of W ay iy w w shortly before eight oclo do kon k on mon day evening night pol ceman alex Bo jertson was mas murdered by elmer horton the shooting taking place at the door of the county court bouse house where the officer had taken horton folio follo ung king his arrest at one of the ai sa loons of the camp T vo bullets entered the body of the officer and death was almost in horton pulling his gun and shooting the policeman in the back then making an effort to es cape and being captured ind lodged in jail i 1 few minutes later horton who nho was 26 2 deais of ige go and who has a wife and four little children loat lost hia big position at one of f the mines and then started drinkin drinking jfe aie borrowed his brothers gun and ca ne ile do town firing one shot near the relar of a local saloon off i robertson berteon Eo was as informed of this matter by holtons a brothers who isk ed d that ill the man an be arree ed and dis beforM orb arrested armed before more s ser or oua trouble re suited salted the ci officer teer fo fount und orton I 1 la on oil of the local saloons saloon and wae in taking him to jail when t e ashooh g which resulted in I 1 the off 8 ath took place As they app bache the county court house the po pouw eman stapled ah all ad to open t tt door or and horton shot him there were at least five eye wit nesses to the shooting and several other persons were close at hand da vid mills george horton ronald me INIC donnell mrs A 0 burton and mrs harry J robinson saw the shooting they state that the man who had been arrested did not seem to be re as ting the officer in fact the officer m was as walking slightly in th lead as hey they ahe the co court urt house the officer office rhad had histand his hand anthe on the door knob when horton commenced hooting hoot lag and when lie he fell hs body blockel the he doorway sheriff mcdonnell was as in his office in the court hous m when hen the he shots were fired but horton was nias not in slight when the sherif f hurried out of th building george horton a brother broth r of the aran v ho lie did the killing and david T 1 I who chanced to be pass ng rig the court house were mere the first to start aft r horton who fled as saon soon as ie had bad shot the n u po policeman heeman in the barkness car kness near the keystone dump to which point tha th chase led ail all stumbled sad and fell ani aril horton ped the gun aich n was as promptly picked up by mr mills 0 the inquest J 11 II Alch mcknight night the county actor ney MIS was in eureka at the time of the shooting and within an hour af ter the police officer had been k lied an inquest was held before judge V ill am bromley acting coroner the jurors ere I 1 lank tank garrity I 1 rank and J B myers among the witnesses it nesses examined exan ined were mrs A 0 I 1 urton and mrs harry J robinson Ro birson i ho were n ere standing about f fifty stel steia a a i ay when N hen the shooting took place david mills who waa was less than f fifty if ty fiet away aind ind who in company with george horton purs aed and captured the murderer ronall mcdonnell an other e ce e I 1 aness to the tragedy 0 A ta lor rr prink ink ft 13 esley and john J hannifin who were mere close at hind hand when the shots were fired and dr I 1 laker aker n who ho made an exam nation of the officer officers a body a few minute minutes af ter the shooting the witnesses to the shooting stat ed flat er Bo robertson bertson and his slayer walked to toward ard th court hous and that as they crossed the street horton offered no res stance As they I 1 rea bed hed the doar door of the court house the oft off stepped slightly ah id ad to apen the door and that the first shot a ang out a second later two other shots folio follo ved in rapid success on the first shot missed the officer the second e unified 41 re d neat near the right der a in t the he breast while the ird struck the ba it of the head any came out through the mouth faher would hare have been fatal f after the third shot horton fled and wis pursued by hs brother george horton and divil mills the fhe uan was mas captured a short distance distan cc from the odd fella is s a hall and mr mills secured the gun which a few m n itea later was turned over to sheriff mcdonnell an exa exil meation nin atLon of the gun showed hat it contained four empty shells and or loaded sh all 11 one shot had been fired by horton before bis his ar rest aid three hid be n fired at the door of 0 the chirt house where the k 11 ng occurred the load d shell sho she wd ved that the hammer 0 the gun had bad descended upon it without d a charging chargi nT it and it is thought bought thit hor ton either tried to fire another shot sho at the officer as the latter li ii on the ground or that he made an ef of fort to shoot the men who pursued I 1 11 I 1 n and brought him back to the jail fhe phe furois after hearing the evi dence of still ases brought in a yer ver d ct et which stated that the officer h ahle le in it tie e d harge s of his duty had bad come to h a death deth by in khot the shots being fired by il 1 mer horton the preliminary hearing horton a prel hear eg ng on a chang of murder in the first degier is as conducted in judge bromley 8 0 on tuesday af fernon after ter noan non the ariso noi net having bee i arral arr dined nel on tues day morn ng rig the co anty attorney r 11 II Mch light conducted the hear bear ng and tie defendant was represented by john beasley a local attorney wh ie le the defendant was as mil mill ng rig to a ve prelim nai daiy y hearing the coui chui ty attorney 1 not consent to this as he anted a stenographic report of the evidence for ua hen th ill cise case con cones es to tr ll 11 it in tit tic if e d str ct et court W L cook cool co rt rc parter for the fifth jud c a al district ca ne no do for the purpose of taa ta it ig doin do a tb ill evi ev dence the state placed pl iced t delve witnesses on the stand the were dr liker david mills mrs i C barton burton mrs harry gob rob risen bonald ronald mcdonnell sheriff angus mcdonnell Donnell Me jphn iian ilan 0 A taylor ceorge horton br bran an parker william manson and rdward idward ballou the testimony of the be eye witnesses was bract cally the same as that introduced at the in i quest the ous n ight and but lit fit tie additional information was ivas brought out george horton win wit is a e brother of the murderer was a most imbor raper tant witness for the state he ile his has been almost frantic with grief since the kill ng but when th tho county at torney asked him if he would mould go on the stand he willingly a lugreel to tell all he knew of the mr horton said he learned that his brother bad had a gun and that the mat ter was brought to the attention of the right policeman pofi policeman ceman by dran par ker who ha haa I 1 been sent to the city I 1 all by y another brother who is cm em aloyed at the oxford cafe george horton followed officer Bo bertson aid ai d his brother when they started to the city ja I 1 the witness a slid iid he be saw h b a brother draw the revolver vex bit thought abo ight that he wis was go ng a to throw it away hae th ill officer officers e lack back waa was turned and thus destroy the evidence of hiving having carried a concealed weapon lie ile was horrified wh ali n the shots were fired and not cloy clos eno digh to prevent the kill ng rig 0 of the officer ni hen hs h a brother ran he gave chas 11 II a brother snapped the gin on h b m bit it failed to go of off f I 1 I 1 na ill am minson and edward gil bil ou on testified that horton had made threats parlier earlier in the day against some one in a local business house but that he hid mentioned no names the defense did not put any wit nesses on the stand and after her ion ton had bad been held to the dis net court w phout bail ball sheriff me donnell and C ty earshil alien allen took it in to the slate state penitentiary at salt lake they started immediately tk tak ing an automobile to spin all fork and then using the interurban inter urbin rail road so a any prisoners have es from the nephi ja I 1 that the bointy sf floors de idel to a nd ifor ton to 0 o bait salt I 1 lake ake ilia trial at echi nephi ill 11 no do abt cone up soon after the first of th tb ne v year beveral several special officers cers were more on duty in eureka la le horton was n as in the local jail an l it was to cut off this extra expense that hf was given a speedy prel hearing and re moved to salt lake alex J bertson Po the officer who lost his life while in the discharge of h a s duty was one of the well known citizens of eureka lie ile came here in the neighborhood of fifteen years ago and followed min ina for beveral years tire vo 5 ears ago he was nag appo anted to the office of right policeman the appointment bp be ing made by mayor huge Dep rezin his ills term of office would have expired on the first monday in january when continued on the fourth page night policeman robertson killed at court house door continued from page 1 the ne new W city officers will be si sworn orn in mr air robertson was mag of unusually quiet despos tion he ile as kind and Rene gene rois in all things and it was inas no doubt to save rave the arrested rested ir nun min the h in aliat on of being pub publicly liely disarmed that he took the chance which coat cost h in his life for man years the deceased baa bag taken a prominent part in the affairs of the eagles engles lodge of this city ing as its secretary the other night policeman daniel martin was to have rel evel him at 8 a clock on the night nigh i t r ca Z A snap shot picture of alex robertson taken aa as he stood in front of h a upper ma n street home a few months ago of the shooting permitting h in to attend the meeting of the eagles th killing of mr robertson occurred a few rew minutes before eight among the relatives of the decease ed are eight bi others brothers and a stera lie ile her jake and wells robertson mrs ben amin argyle and mrs W 0 creer all of span sh fork john ana nephi robertson of the B g horn ba pa n in wyoming and ezra robertson of park city elmer horton elmer horton who is no in the state penitentiary in salt lake with vath a a barge harge ot of murder in the first degree against him cornea comes of good parents his father george horton br having been connected with mith the mines of tintic gintic for many years the son is 28 26 lears of age and married having a eife and four little children no saloon disturbance pravio is to h a arrest horton made no disturbance d st in the oxford desort or r any other saloon as stated in one of of the daily papers in fact he was not inside of the oxford that night the rhe desire of the ther part of the salt lake papers to publish sensational stories no doubt led to this erroneous statement wh ch may cause those who are not familar famil ar with aith conditions to th that wild west stunts are be ing pulled off in our saloons which in reality are conducted in the most orderly warmer possible in I 1 justice justlee to the local correspondents of the da ly papers it should be stated that hey phoned in acca accurate rate atones stories wh ch cl were changed in the daily nes newspaper paper offices his brothers gun the gun with which the murder was committed was not the property of elmer horton according to evi dence introduced it belonged to hiff huf brother karhn horton and it had been borro ved on the day of the shooting it was mas a 38 calibre devol ver funeral services held funeral services over the remains of alex robertson were held at 7 a clock on wednesday evening the L D S church with a seating ca lacity of about was filled to ov er flowing and many to fo ind it imps sible ible to get ins de the edifice john bunnell NN W ill am bromley and dr howell were the speakers musical numbers were ere rendered by the choir by a male quartette under the lead enship of prof robinson and by mrs la zabriskie skie and mrs gourley 4 dozens of eureka people made the trip to spanish fork the follows following ng day attending the second se service alce which was mas held at the tabernacle at that place and folio follo sing the remains to tb their last resting place in the spanish fork camet ry members of the them eagles lodge of fu reka acted as pall bearers and many beautiful floral offerings were mere sent by sorrowing friends |