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Show IN COLD BLOOD. An Ambushed Coward Com-' Com-' mits au Attrocious Murder AT WESTWATER, UTAH.j i -The Tragedy Occurred near "Bar X" Ranch Sunday at 9 O'clocit The Victim a Young Han Well Liked A Posse From Provo Gone A. ,er the Murderer. Westwater, .Feb, 25. Special to The Dispatch. As cold blooded a murder as was ever perpetrated, has just taken place here. G. D. Grant and his two. sons, Royal and Frank, commenced com-menced yesterday to build a house on the old "Bar X" ranch in the lower end of the valley. Just above this ranch is a cabin which Chas. II. Hallett, Hal-lett, who live3 in the section-house here, claims. The road to the iKBr.r X" ranch goes by the cabin claimed by Hallett. This morning about 9 o'clock, as the three Grants were on their way down to their work, and just before they got to the cabin above mentioned, men-tioned, Hallett drew his rifle on them and ordered them to halt. At the same moment a shot was fired from the cabin, and Royal Grant fell to the ground dead, shot through the heart. The man who is supposed to have tired the shot is named John W. Smith, and is known as Jack Smith. He ha. oeen staying in the cabin claimed by Hallett for several days, and that he was nireu to commit tne murder is evidenced by the fact that Smith had neyer met the murdered Grant. There was known to be a bad feeling between Hallett and Royal Grant, and there is much feeling against Hallet. The Grants have the sympathy of all the best people in the valley, and tin shock to both old Mr. and Mrs. Gran; is very severe, as well as to the young widow of the murdered man. The lollowms is a partial description of Smith: jJark complexion, about 5 feet 10 inches in height, weight about 190 pounds, some gray hair in beard and mustache, dressed in dark clothes, about forty or forty-five years of age. The United States marshal at Provo has been telegraphed to come immediately immedi-ately with a posse. Citizkns op Westwater, Grand county, Utah. On receipt of notification yesterday of the murder, the marshal's office here was rather in a bad fix, the deputies j not bein come ct-able. However. Chief Fowler at once bestirred hirneelf and succeeded in gettii g S. F. Mount, G. T. Bean and J. A, Brown rigged out and off for the scene of me tragedy. Business was such that Mr. Fowler, n im self, could not leave. |
