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Show TWO MEN MURDERED BY A LONE HOLD-UP. Attempted Robbery of Street Car Crew Results In Terribre Tragedy. A lono masked man attempted to hold up Motorman Amasn Oloason and Conductor Thomas Brighton In tho outskirts of Salt Lako City at about midnight, Wednesday, as tho men were seated In their car waiting for tlmo to start on their return trip to tho city, and In a battlo with tho car men, tho robber murdered (llcnson tanrt loft nrlghton for dead. Brighton Is In tho hospital and no hopo Is on-tortnlned on-tortnlned of his recovery. Tho robber mndo his cscapo nnd thoro Is no clow to his Idontlty. Conductor Brighton has made a statement regarding tho desperate encounter, en-counter, but could glvo no description of his assailant, except that ho was young and tall and woro a handkerchief handker-chief for a mask. The mon wero Bitting In tho car when the hold-up entered with a lov. oled gun. Ho first gavo his attention to Brighton, tho conductor, but beforo ho had succeeded In getting nnythlng from him n deadly fight ensued. Thrco shots wero fired by tho high-wayman, high-wayman, ono of which took effect In Glcnson's body, another struck Brighton, the third missing tho victims. vic-tims. Tho hold-up then ran from tho car, leaving his hat, and ran south, .according .accord-ing to Brighton. A Smith & Wesson revolver found In tho car undischarged undis-charged would lend to tho conclusion thnt tho gun belonged to Oloason and that ho had pulled It to dofend himself him-self and that It wouldn't work. Tho two mon, ono dead and tho other wounded, lay In tho car for fifteen fif-teen minutes nfter tho shooting until tho next und Inst car for tho night arrived. |
