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Show TIIE11E WAS NO SHOOTING. The story of Another Man Having Been Shot at Hallet'B Kanch, Westwater, Utah, l'roves to be a Canard. Chief Fowler and Sheriff Brown returned re-turned from Westwater last evening rather crestfallen and wondering if yesterday was really April 1st. The facts of the scare are that on Saturday evening a lame tramp, calling himself Moran, got off the train at Westwater, went down a couple of miles to Hallet's ranch, came back up to the village and reported that he had been shot at three times by Mrs. Hal-let. Hal-let. - ; As is known to Dispatch readers the officers from here were called to West-water West-water on a telegram stating that a man had been shot at Mrp. Hallet's ranch. Mrs. Hallet was very much surprised and somewhat worried at seeiflg the officers come to her home, and was utterly at a loss to know what it meant. The cause of their visit being explained to Mrs. Hallet she was more perplexed per-plexed than ever and denied that any shooting had occurred on the ranch since that fatal Sunday afternoon when Royal Grant losthis life. Going to Mrs. Darrow's house the tramp was found. He insisted that he had been shot at three times by Mrs. Hallet at the ranch on Saturday evening. even-ing. When taken to the Hallet ranch the people there said, yes the tramp had been at the ranch on Saturday evening. He came just at dusk and not knowing what enemy it might be,a man was sent nut who ordered Mr. Tramp to halt. On learning it was none of ''the gang" of whom the Hallet people are very suspicious he was taken into the house and giyen some supper. The oflicers beard Loth storiep, weighed the evidence carefully and concluded that there was more truth in the version of the affair given by Mrs. Hallet and her little eon than that given by the tramp, and therefore mads no arrest but took the first train f -r home. |