| Show Weather Today Today PRICE FIVE CENTS MAN FOUR TIMES A MURDERER ARRESTED FOR Ti THREAT TO KILt KILL J I MEN FLEE FLEETO FLEETO I TO ESCAPE DEATH W. W J. J Wilson Came to This City to Shoot J. J Q o. Packard and andis I J. J H. H McChrystal LODGED IN COUNTY JAIL Sheri Sheriffs Sheriff's ff s Force Takes Gun Man as He Steps Stops From oni Train i With four our nOl hm Iii the butt built of ff hl his revolver rC W. W J. J Wilson alias J J. J W W. C IIEr nn no old gun un oman man and con ox-con- viet came caine to In Halt I Lake Wednesday with wilh time tho avowed a Intention of jf addIng two tv more Ii to his list Thre Threaten Threaten- ten ten- In Ing letters pre preceded Ills mIs arrival Ills 1111 mended victims wore pre John Q Pack Pack- ard and John II n. McChrystal Wealthy men nien and his mission lon waR wan to In some settle an nn old oM score COI In itt which ho he de do- clares I h ho Ito wig WOM robbed of or n a mining claim in the he mining district twenty vonly years eaIS ago Wilson VII stopped from nm rom the Itlo ILlo Cirando We Western extern tIn train which tIck arrived a at 20 p p. p i. i m m. m Into litto the lit arms Ims of lr Deputy Sheriffs Joseph Josrph K H. Sharp anti and Andrew Smith W were le snapped on his and he ho was landed Innell in Imi the county Jill jail Wilson stood six feet two Inches lii In height leight lb Ho carrl carried his seventy sc years with apparent nt ease His Ills muscles worn wOrA vern sinewy his ph physique showed howell strength lh and anti endurance Since Sluice hl his rolease re- re lease case from flom coma the state slate prison o of Colorado last ast April he hc has worked t to tn procure enough money to hu buy him a n revolver and mil a ticket et to lo Salt Lake It was while he wn was In the state prison at t Cannon City that time the first letters vero 10 written vl to 10 McChrystal and Packard 11 Ho Ito Hen HoVas Vas zm n l Marked Man ll From lh the day of or his release April 2 24 Wilson Il on ha has hax been trailed Sheriff Sherif C. C Frank tiney and amid his t deputies have been en watch watching In for fr him hint Ills His movements movement move move- menU ments have been followed Col and word woul rc reached ched Salt Snit I Lake ako o Wednesday day morning morn morn- ing hg that h ho had loft taCt for or Suit Salt Lak 0 J Tuesday night When hen Packard It tJ- tJ I of il Wilson's Wilsons r Intention ot nt ci KalL Ai-A Ai lItle Tie lie e w to n. ll i torn tars l i turl Vcr over to to Sh Sheriff Mch tt 1 received letters of ot the ime PL character chai f HII reputation U U-OH town known und and blIp bellev- log that ho Jin had hod become In Insane In Mc Ic Chrystal und limit Packard took precautions ions to have him arr arrested before horo he hf could do an any damage damaS' John H. H McChrystal Mc- Mc Chrystal Is also alRo awn away from orn m-orn home hom and th the news of or Wilson's Wilsons arrest t WItS was wired to him and amid Mn I Packard d also on Illon will be be- charged with it threatenIng to lo 1 kill and either McChrystal or 01 Packard will swear swem to eo It The letters will be b. d ji n c evidence nC Sheriff Emery Em Em- Emr ery r I Is of oC the lie opinion that Wilson I Is crazy and oll ought ht to be In tho lie State Mental hosPital Instead of or time the stale slate p prison ii Sixteen Y Years tam ms m's u a Com Convict kt let Wilsons Wilson's grievance gri goes oe back twenty ty j years oars 11 HI this His life Is on olic of oC crime anti and ho 10 ha has t sI served d some som sixteen n years in iii prison rl on Wilson came came- cameto to to- to Utah 5 i years a ago o from Cana Canada a. a where ho lie was horn born He lie b became enthused with The mining district VMS us been prospected then Learning a n grub grill stake Wilson ilSon went prospecting prospecting- lie III located 1 on several It claims and anti did lid some t 1 development work on his prop prop- erty II Jumping of claims In those tho e l days s 's ns common nod and Wil ilson on had some trouble with a prospector He backed hl his man off the ground with a u gun it I Is stated d. d and he never n molested Wilson n again Packard and McChrystal tal mit owned claims In imi th the vicinity of nr VII II ons on property Trouble arose arm o or over overa r ra a boundary line lIn II Wilson on and ant the su superintendent su- su u- u had some som dispute lul anti and Wilson demanded that his property properly be 11 purchased ed to settle matters Packards Packard's foreman oleman bought on one claim claim- at the point of or a gun and ani McChrystal tal took tool o over or r some of h his property a year yeam r or Ot two later to lo old avoid having ln HL trouble with him Wilson held hed on to 0 some of his claims He lie built huilt a l cabin and amid IH practiced f shooting every v IY e evening Was 0 Once c Insane Wilson had bath trouble later an and l tho sheriffs sheriff's office was vas informed that ho Eureka Ho lIe killed a pr prospector near neal was arrested sted for or minder mutum and tried riNI at atI I Nephi ehl 0 O. V. V. V POW Powers lS l'S defended him and the time man was acquitted on the grounds of Insanity Judge o Powers was nl asked ed about the cal case e last laM ni night ht He liti Is unable tunable to remember the deadmans deadman's dead deadman's deadmans mans man's name narn- but hut ha has some recollection of oC Wilson's Wilsons lh lIl trial Wilson Vilson was committed committed com coma to the tho Insane asylum For sev sew SO eral emai months th he lie a was a patient there but hUI was wa afterward released m Th The record at nt the state Institution shows BIO that he lie hen was n cured his lila Insanity being temporary Wilson ln went t ti-i ti Park Pall City where he worked in the mines intuits for or two o s. Ho became In Involved in- in ohEl In a quarrel el 1 with a n miner nn and Continued on ott Pa live Pi MAN TIME FOUR-TIME MURDERER ARRESTED FOR THREAT Continued from front Page One a shooting scrap al followed His Ills record record rec rec- or ord as compiled by the tho sheriffs sheriff's ollice shows that his victim died led Wilson Ison I escaped punishment on the tho grounds of self From Park Parle City he lie went to 1 c Cob Colo Ho lie prospected ther tIter for or a while and then themi worked as a 3 regular miner In a row there he lie killed a couple of oC men and was arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested for mur murder cr Ho ITo was convicted of murder In tho the second degree an and amid He lie served received t twenty went years eal about ten years cars of or his term For soo good behavior he lie received his coppers an and amid was released In Apri April Wrote tole Threatening Leters Letters During tho lie pa past t t two o years it I is stated by the time prison als that Wilson has been doty oty an and broo brooding VIon troubles Ills first letters to over uvel his Ils leters an and amid Packard recalled the lie mining transactions he lie ha had with them but no threats threat were ma made c. c When hen ho hu huwa writing threatening threat threat- wa was released he lie began ening an and amid stated staled that ho would come comae here hero as soon boon as he lie got enough h money with which to lo bu buy a n gun As s tho the ivero received they were turned over to the authorities The rIme prison at Cannon City aided the sheriff in iii finding n Wilson From the state prison ho went to lo Basalt Colo Cob where ho lie went to work on un the lic railroad as a section hund hand H He lie there from rom a April 30 0 0 until June Julie 1 15 5 r. r He lie le lewent enl went wc to lo vie and amid nUl hl his n. n w rr r.r. L lie a gun there I I le and ani a railroad to Salt Sail Lake time the When he hu got on un the train there notified Ills His Ils Salt Lake arrest SaI followed anti and he lie will wi be bc charged with threatening to kill kiil kil County Count Attorney Willard Willrd Han Hanson on Wednesday c after afler- talked with wilh wih Wilson noon about his case casc He lIe le dues does duct not deny deity writing the tIme letters but hul refuses to talk about aboul the lie affair Wilson lon is hi tinder under under un un- der time the impression that he lie was rob robbed c cof of his mining minin claims un and he lie wants want to lu secure u H settlement with wih Packard nn and McChrystal |
