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Show I : PATROLMAN'S SLAYER I t SHOT AND CAPTORED H Salt Lake City Juno 2C Patrol- B : man Tliomas P. Griffiths, a member B i of the Salt Luko pollco forco tor six PHb , jl yenrs, lies (lend In the raorguo of tlio PBl Eber W. Hall Undertaking company BBb H and Qlovnnnl Anselmo, an Italian ! tailor, 23 years old, with a bullet In H his loft groin, Is confined In tlio coun- B ty Jail charged with the murder of HBh the BBb , The murder cnino as n result of the JBl Italian's desporato break for liberty fBl while being taken to tho pollco station BBb at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. HBb Anselmo, arrested In tho Milwaukee BBl cafe, 21G Second South, for hssult on HBm Peter Mast, another Italian, broko HBV ' from tho grasp of Patrolman Griffiths JBV at tho corner of First West and Sec-J HBV ond South ns tho oltlccr was pre- BBV piirlng to ring for tho police patrol, from alarm box No. 35. Ho was overtaken over-taken by tho iatrolman In a vacant lot on First West between Sweet's candy factory and tho Hoover Drug company, but aghln broko away. Darting Dart-ing behind n shed In tho rear of ttie Sweet building ho drew n rovolver and fired thrco Bhots at Griffiths, all taking tak-ing effect, beforo tho officer could draw his gun. Heforo tho Btnrtled gazo of a dozen witnesses, Anselmo climbed over tv fence Into Hazel court, and rnn across Broadway through an Alley on tho opposite side of tho street. Reaching a point In tho center of tho block ho stopped and reloaded his gun, then dnshed across back)Mds and fences to Second West and Fourth South and was lost to vlow. Search of City. A city-wide search, participated In by every avnllablo member of tho regular re-gular department attaches of sheriffs sher-iffs offlco special officers, street car men and citizens who volunteered their services ended at 9: 15 o'clock last night when Anselmo was safely lodged In tho county Jail, after being shot through the left buttock by a bullet fired from the rovolver of patrolman pat-rolman II . H . Hendrlcksen, After hours of trailing worthless clues In till parts of tho city through a drizzling rain, Detectives W. C. Zeese and II. C. Lethter responded to a call which marked the end of the chose at 9 o'clock. Shortly before, cat-roiman cat-roiman FrankTrlpp and Juvenile Of fleer George Robinson had followed Frank Anselmo, father of the alleged murderer to the homo of Mike Ansl-mo, Ansl-mo, nn uncle of the man under arrest No. 3 Loves court. They reported to tho police station from tho home of Mrs. David H. Cook, 577 W. Fourtn South, and resumed their shadowing of the father when ho left the uncles homo to go to "Greektown." Detectives Detect-ives Zecso nnd Lelchter wcro detailed to Investigate tho premises In tho bop) of finding Anselmo. Their search of tho houso was fruitless and they sfvt ed back to the station. Saw Him Enter 3htl. Less than flvo minutes afto departure Mrs. D f! Cook, wlfo ot a Itlo Grande Blacksmith, who resides at No. 5 Loves court, saw Mike Anselmo, Ansel-mo, Mrs. Anselmo and a third man enter tho Anselmo homo at No. 3 Tho third member of tho party she took to bo tho man wanted by the police. Watching Wat-ching from her window stio saw tho woman come out ot tho houso and go to tho rear of No. 4 the homo of some Armenians who aro away. ("After Inspecting tho snec, tho woman wo-man returned to tho Anselmo home," said Mrs. Cook. "A few minutes later lat-er she came out of tho houso and went to tho shed with tho young man. She returned to tho houso nlono." WOMAN LEADS POSSE. Mrs. Cook then hurried to tho home of Mrs. David A. Cook, 577 W. Fourth Four-th South and notified the pollco. Ten officers, under Cnpt. Emll Johnson rushed to tho sceno In tho patrol wagon. wag-on. They wero met nt Fifth West and Fourth South by tho elder Mrs. Cook. Tho officers separated Into two squads one entering tho block through an alley off Fourth South, led by the elder Mrs. Cook The second squad was conducted to the shed by the younger Mrs. Coqk through Loves Court from Fifth West street. .As the two squads approached the shed from different directions the younger Mrs. Cook clutched the arm of Captnln Johnson and said: "There ho Is." At the same tlmo there was a rattling rat-tling of a tin pan In the shed and An- ,v.-.o oiei'i-cu l.om tne ooorway. Tflero he goes" shouted Mrs, Cook, tihots Arrest Flight. Heedless of tho commanCs of tha ot ilccrs who had approached the sai'4 irom Fourth Soutn SoutU, Anse.m stepped westward an J started In tna u rectlon of the court. When he pum no attention to the commands of the officers, two shots rang out. Both bullets, bul-lets, from tho gun ot patrolman J. P. Lmery, went wild. As Anselmo reached reach-ed for his hip pocket, Patrolman 11 II. Hcndrlckson, then wlttiln three feet of tho fleeing man, fired. Anselmo fell forward on his face with a wound In his left buttock. Before Be-fore he could turn over ho was the center of n rush of oflcers, all clamoring clamor-ing for an opportunity to lay hands on Anselmo. Ho was JerkeU to i-feet, i-feet, the forco of tho officer's effotib throwing bis gun for a distance of ten feet. Members of both squads joined In rushing tho prisoner to the paui. wagon, half dragging, halt carrying, when he leaned back complaining ,t pain. Beforo the auto fairly started for oc county Jail officers who haa kt.own and worked with Griffiths wete pleading that Anselmo be turned loose. They then would havo had an other opportunity to shoot nt him. Captain Johnson cautioned them. "Remembor boys you are officers or the law," he said. "You have captured cap-tured your man and must treat him with tho due respect of the law." Does Nat Deny Deed. The officers began to question Anselmo. An-selmo. He did not deny the shooting "I no mean to kill him,' he sobbed "I mean to shoot other man." At the county' Jail Anselmo was stripped of his clothing and placed on the operating table where his wound was dresed by Dr. R. W. Ashley. No attempt was made to remore the bullet bul-let which Is lodged In tho left groin. Tho bullet which struck hlra had penetrated pene-trated a pockotbook cnrrled in his left coat pocket. A 20 bill in tho purse was also penetrated by the bullet. A cash slip of tho Western Arms & Sporting Goods company found among his effects showed that he had paid $18.25 for a revolver yesterday morning. morn-ing. The gun he carried, 32 calibre, was also placed In tho custody of the sheriff,. After the wound had been dressed, Sheriff Andrew Smith at tempted to question AnBelmo, but tne prisoner was not Inclined to talk. "I don't know," he pleaded, '1 drunk this morning. I no mean to.klll him. I mean to shoot other Italian." Ho admitted that ho had spent n part of the day near tho Jordan r.ver In the vicinity of Ninth West and Rlghth 3outh, but further than that, refused to reveal his whereaboutrdur-Ing whereaboutrdur-Ing tho time tho search was In progress. |