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Show SALT LAKE OFFICER OFFI-CER SHOT AND KILLED SALT LAKE, Feb. 9. Detective G. D. Hamby of tho Salt Lako police department was killed Tuesday with a shot through tho bral.i from a weapon In tho hands of Turn "Dlack-lo" "Dlack-lo" Burns, who In turn was mortally wounded by Chief of Pollco Joseph E. Durbldgo and Detective Cllgord Patten. Chief Durbldgo was slightly wound cd when Durns tired at him from a few Bce, tho bullet burning the otothlng.ovor hid right breast It erased the flesh. Detective C. W. Roseakrants was knocked unconscious uncon-scious earlier In the day by the same band and tlod hand and foot In a room In the Delphi hotel, formerly the Stowart. 233 South Stat street. The slaying of Detective Ilamby occurrod In a hallway on the second floor of tho Nord hotel, 69 1-2 East second South street, at 10:46 o'clock yesterday morning. With Chief of. 'police Durbldge Dotectlve Hamby. 'was forcing the door of a room In which Burns and possibly a second man were resisting entrance. As tho door yielded undor the combined com-bined force of tho two pollcomen, nurns fired Into Hamby's face. Tho It'ullat cntorod tho right eye, crashing crash-ing through tho brain and lodged In tho plaster of the wall. Tho murderer mur-derer turned his weapon upon Chief Durbldge and fired ot his cheat. It 'struck the cblof a glancing blow and eausod-o' Superficial wound. " Durns backed a few steps down tho hallway stopped In the doorway loading to tho stairs and again leveled lev-eled his gun at Chief Durbldge. Bo- Jforo ho could pull the trigger which would probably have meant the death of Chief Durbldgo, as ho was only a fow feot away, Detective Patten Pat-ten flrod from a landing on tho stairs, tho shot taking effect In the .thug's loft sldo. Thc-bullet ranged upward through the abdomen. Tho bullet Intended for Chief Durbldge tore its way through the door Jam as Durns momentarily staggered under un-der tho mortal wounds. With a gasp Durns stumbled down the hall. Chief Durbldge had opened tiro and a bullet from bin pistol caused tho retreating thug to drop fo the floor. He dragged himself through the doorway of a room and lay pasptng for breath In a corner. |