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Show Utah Boys : Hilled in Jlrizona A letter to the 1 Deseret News from St. Johns, Ariz., says that Andrew A. Gibbons and 'Frank Leseur were shot to'' death on. March 27 by five bandits, whose trail they were following. The two young men formed part of a posso I which had oeen organized by the sher-i sher-i iff of the county to run down the ban-. ban-. dits, who had been reported to have been seen killing a beef. Sheriff Beeler came1 upon the men early on the morning of the '27th, and the bandits commenced firing upon, the sheriff's posse. A running fight was kept up for some miles, but the horses of some of the posse gave out and the.-returned. the.-returned. Word had been left by the sheriff .with his deputy to organize n second posse, and Gibbons and Leseur formed part of this. The horses of the rest of the party gave out and Gibbons and Leseur wet-the wet-the only two who got within shooting distance of the robbers. They supposed that the sheriff was ahead of then-They then-They came upon the desperadoes quit" unexpectedly.-who opened fire on then: at short range. Leseur fell at the firsr. shot, but his companion, who was sho through the bowels, ran for some distance, dis-tance, until he was pierced through the back by another Dullet and fel: mortally wounded. To make their crime more heinous. the murderers followed up thoir victims vic-tims and shot each of them through the he al, afterward riding the bodies am: taking the horses of the dead men. Th-bodies Th-bodies were, found in the roadway tln-nexi tln-nexi day by a pos.e under Richard Gibbons, a brother of the deceased Another brother, William O., remained with the bodies while the rest of tht-posse tht-posse returned to town with the sad news. A party of citizens brought in the bodies the next morning. Funeral services were held at tht-assembly tht-assembly hall in St. Johns at 2 o'clock yesterday. Many friends of the dead boys from Springville were present. Sheriff Peeler is now on the trail of the murderers with a posne. but. as they have gotten a start of thirty-siix hours, there is but small hope that they will be caught. Andrew A. Gibbons was the son of President William H. Gibbons and Evaline Augusta Lamb. He was born in Glendale, Utah, on Feb. 16. 1874. and was the grandson of Elder Andrew Gibbons, Gib-bons, one of Utah's pioneers. On Sept. 1. istti, ne was married to a daughter of President Jesse N. Smith, and left on a mission to England on the 2$th of the same month, where he remained for over two years. Frank Leseur was the son of Hon. John T. Leseur and Geneva Casto, and was born in St. Johns, Ariz., Sept. 4. 1SS0.. Ha attended the Brigham Young academy at Provo for two years, and was ordained an elder of the Mormon church in Salt Lake City by Elder H. McCune and President Udall. He received re-ceived a call for a foreign mission last February, which he would probably have filled but for his sudden death. A tendertof sympathy from the entire community has been made to the rela-tives rela-tives of the murdered men. |