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Show BANDITS SHOOT RESORT MANAGER Utah Hot Springs Held up by Three Masked Men Who Ruthlessly Fire Upon Guests. Two of the Robbers Lost Their Masks During the Excitement and Can Easily Be Identified." Got Away With Between $400 and $500. Ogden, Utah. Exhibiting a recklessness reck-lessness seldom displayed by highwaymen high-waymen of experience, three masked men held up the hotel at the Xltah Hot Springs, ten miles north of Ogden. Og-den. at 10:30 o'clock Monday night, and after shooting Richard Barnett. the manager of the resort, through the right arm, pried open the safe, used jointly by the hotel and the United States post office at that point, and got away with between $400 and $500. About $300 of this amount was in stamps and money belonging to the government. Six men were standing in the lobby of the hotel when the holdups walked in, with their faces partly covered wilh handkerchiefs, and with automatic auto-matic revolvers drawn. Seeing that, the place was going to be robbed, the men standing in the hotel threw up their hands at the command of one of the robbers. Although Barnett had his hands up. one of the desperadoes fired his pistol at him, a .45-caliber ball passing through his right arm between be-tween the elbow and the shoulder. With a hammer and several cold chisels, chis-els, one of the trio quickly pried open the drawers of the safe, the door of which had been left standing open. About $500 belonging to guests at the hotel, which had been left in envelopes en-velopes in one of the drawers, was overlooked by the robbers in their haste. While the safe was being rifled the other two robbers kept up an incessant in-cessant firing with their revolvers, narrowly missing guests and attaches of the place, who rushed to the lobby at the sound of the first shots. The walls of the hotel office were literally honeycombed with bullet holes, about twenty-five shots having been fired during the excitement. Two of the hold-ups lost their masks during the excitement and can easily be identified if they are captured. |