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Show Hj It is difficult to wiite at all of the wanton j shooting of Sergeant Johnston of the police force B Wednesday morning at the Albert hotel by Elmer r Dewey, a half-drunk "private detective." M Coming as the culmination of a long seiies M of murders and crimes that have shocked Salt 'f Lake as not before in years, it has greatly in- V censed public opinion. For anyone who saw and fl felt tho temper of the mob that gathered on State H street opposite the Orpheum and In front of police headquarters Wednesday night the impression is Strong that Salt LaTce narrowly missed a lynching party. The situation of Johnston at this writing is pitiable. pit-iable. The less said of Dewey and his wife the better, bet-ter, probably. Their lives were evidently correctly correct-ly attuned to the sphere in which they moved. The woman's statement, in her explanation of the shooting, "that when Elmer drinks his imagination imagina-tion runs wild," ought to form a first-class defense, de-fense, as the defenses of criminals go in "Utah, when the case comes to trial. |