Show johnstone fohn stone convicted of 0 f manslaughter M an slaughter adward B johnstone charged with ann arder in the first degree 0 was found S of voluntary manslaughter by district court yester jury in the 1 being out twentysix twenty s six ix hours after ter cafter r nd ad this afternoon af terno oll was sentenced to a ne year in the penitent penitentiary larY this case the most important of he e term has been in progress since week ago wednesday when tho nooner was arraigned and pleaded ot guilty the time from wednesday until day was consumed in see securing a ary and the taking of testimony until tuesday when the ase was argued and given tp to the jr ary about 5 p ni the history of the crime with chich johnstone lias has been convicted s in brief as follow fol lob u johnstone had been in castlegate castle gate a the day of sept 13 1912 it is aid id to meet the train bearing the y roll for the south utah em the sir vice of which cor oration he was employed as guard the pay roll not arriving john tone started to dt duve ive back to help helper r accompanied ba b F Fos satt of the latter ace boones Jo nf n f ones mind appeals s to have unfilled en filled with etli the possibility that a attempt to hold him up would be ide as the testimony showed that tone point in the journey when assed used by two men on horseback hoi he lulled his gun un and laid it tie cross his eft arm in anticipation of trouble A little later at a turn of the load oad i wo men emerged brom the ile hushes bushes ast ahead of the tile team and fossaty Fos Pos satt rho ho was driving stopped john tone called to them what are you to doa to which one of the men replied what arc are you trying to 0 at this reply johnstone Johns tono fired twice ice shooting both men down and cuming his scat seat commanded fositt i tt to drive on arriving at helper johnstone telephoned the sheriff that e had shot two highwaymen who W ad attempted to hold bold him up it lt developed that the two young ien ilen shot and left 1 13 ing in el beside the th oad road were two men employed at the spring canyon mines oil n their way to the railroad Y BI 0 A at helper r one of them ronald beardall BAar dall was shot in the leg breaks in the bone the other brigham taylor aylor was fatally injured and died f few hours later jo istone wis is placed under arrest sheriff kehir he lie was held for some time and later released under bonds the conviction is in the nature of a triumph for district attorney cherry rry and associate counsel as s johnstone was very ably defended by br attorney price assisted by LT judge houtz 0 price made de a very s tenuous foght fig ht to s sivo iva his client and the LS by y 7 many who heard hear d case tried that he would get a verdict diet of not guilty the following 1 are the names of the jurors wm R arnnett Brn nett hal taylor edwit birard COX jas burton urton rowland cantrill es Ru gsell 11 neil 1 madsen iralli anderson son birvin bra branch nh R R arl atter rot me ages sra sr aind A man giving his name A M le as olds helper S was brought do down from e IP Sr crip the early part of the 1 week arged eed with k G breaking into the D hotel at that place he red up ap plead dua d before and J adge was nas christensen two rears a in in the n given penitentiary P the 03 fsr on the tile the frontier and uw 1 ing of ft al collit the ore g 0 n ry aa t will meet at 7 71 3 0 frid ay b kee 10 are i academy views of borshc alt will be bos shown hc by the th fm all are i invited nr |