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Show ON DESPERADO Man Who.Shot the Deputy Sheriff at Layton at An Ear.br Hour This Morning Is Surrounded In the Jungles Near Riverdale Fugitive Fugi-tive Loses Hat and Trousers. The viUofce of Layton 12 miles south of Uis city, was the tcene of an attempted murder at an early hour'tiils morning when Night Watchman Watch-man William Lavender was shot by an iinknosvu assassin, who is believed to have been a member of a gang "which was planning the lobbery of Ernest Layton's general store. Three men were seen running from tho village immediately after 'the 'scooting and were headed toward this crty The, local police and doputies fVo'm the shoriff's office are on the lookout for tho men Lavender ha? a dangerous wound in the neck, but the attending physician stated tho man may recover. About 1 o'clock the officer noticed a man standing in front of the Lay-ton Lay-ton store. He walked up to question the man as to what he wanted and, without answering, tho stranger drew a revolver and filed three shots at Lavender One shot took effect, the bullet entering the neck and grazing the windpipe. It passed entirely through the nock and out at the back of the right shoulder. Dr. Wliltlock was called to attend tho injured man. Immediately after the shooting the night operator for the Layton Independent Inde-pendent Telephonei company heard thrco men running past the office. They were tracked out of the village on a road leading to tho north Lavcn-dgr Lavcn-dgr was unnble to give the slightest description of his assailant. Stace the shooting of Deputy Sheriff WlJliam Lavender at.Laton thh morning, Ogden oftlcers havo been searching for suspicious characters. A number of arrests have bern made but In every Instance the parties have been released, they having given sat isfactory accounts of themselves. The police denanment and Sheriff Karrjson. Immediately after hearing of the shooting, stationed special officers of-ficers and deputies at all points of the compass to Intercept any who might undertake to get into the city from the Davis county side. Farmers along the Sand Ridge and at Roy, Hooper and Warren and other places were armed and placed on guard, Sheriff Harrison and his rosular deputies dep-uties and a numbe of police officers going dlrccth jnto the field in search of, the man who did the shooting , The deputy sheriff at Riverdale r-1 r-1 ported at an early hour this morning . thnt he encountered two men on their way to the city from the direction or Layton. He commanded thorn to sto4i, but Instead they drew their revolvers and van from the officer. A number of shots were exchanged, the officer emptying his revalyer at the fleeing men, who took refuge In the junples of the Weber river near the Oregon Short Line bridge, one of thp men losing his hat in his hasty retreat. Not only did the officers get the man's hat but tliev succeeded in cap-turing cap-turing his tiousers. In mad depcr-atlon depcr-atlon to escane. the fellow plunged through a barbed wire fence, leaving his trousers hanging thsro. Hljs trousers trou-sers caiKht In tho barbs of the wire and both lrgs wc:e riDped fom ' ths waistband to tho heels He waitrd for nothing, even breaking the buckles of his buspenders as he surged througn the fence. In the trousers wo-e foun-I a plug of tobacco, wtrie fine cut f-)r smoking and a soilel pocket handkerchief. hand-kerchief. After getting through tho fence th trouserless fellow made for tho sloughs a'ong the river and the other man Is thought to have gone toward Burch Creek. The entire country Is patrolcd and it Is expected that the desperado finally will be run to ba and captured. His hat is white, the trousers being of a dark color and not badly worn The man will be easily Identified when found The desperation of the man to get awav causes the officers to believe he Is tho man wanted for the Layton assault as-sault and no pains will be spared to run him from his hiding place. Special Spec-ial officers will be kept on guard until un-til the man' is captured. "Whether thjese men are connected with the Layton shooting Is problematical, problem-atical, but If apprehended they will be held for a scrutinizing examination. |