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Show DFSI'FKADOIOS KILL OLD MAN AT IWOAI! One of the iiiomL e I ; t ,t :i i 1 1 y erinii'.s ever perpeti iitcil in Utah took place ul Moab shortly before six o'clock last Thursday evenit:, wln-n puty Sheriff R. D. Wt:itwooil was Hhol to death In the door of tin; county jail by two desperadoes who had been ur-rested ur-rested earlier Unit day on a robbery charge. One of the prisoners had conceuled a f;u" " his body vln n lodged in the jail and it was not found when the men were Kraiched. When Deputy Westwood went to the jail that evening to remain with his prisoners while they were eating their supper, the bandits were wai'.-iiitf wai'.-iiitf for him. As lie opened the door, one of the prisoners shot him three times witli a .'.',2 automatic revolver. Mr. Westwood fell to the floor mortally mort-ally wounded, and the desperadoes made their escape. I'os.,es were quickly organized by Sheriff J. Ii. Skewes and a manhunt for the murderers mur-derers was immediately started, liolh of the bandits were captured, the first one being apprehended about two o'clock Friday .some ten miles below Moab on the. Colorado river, and the other managing to conceal himself in the outskirts of Moab until un-til Saturday afternoon, when be was captured twelve miles southeast of Moab making a desperate attempt to get out of the valley. Times-lnde- j pendent, Moab. |