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Show AFTER ROBBING PAWN SHOP TWO HIGHWAYMEN HIGH-WAYMEN KILL CITIZEN AND WOUND OTHERS IN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. SALT LAKE, May 9. Aa Joaeph W. Axtell, dinner pail in hand, was trudging trudg-ing to his night's work as firoman at the Cullen hotel this evening, tho crowd beside him parted to make way for a small man running wildly and brandishing a revolver. Axtell dropped his pall and seized the runner by the coat. The man tore away and, as Axtell sprang after him, pressed tho revolver to the fireman's bosom and shot him through the heart. Scores of persons on the crowded block between Main and State streets on Second South saw the murder and two attempted to halt the slayer. E. E. Wellman receiv- ed the second bullet from the bandit's I gun. He was shot through the body. The third missile wounded D. Hlg-glnbotham Hlg-glnbotham in the leg. Plunging through the gathering crowd toward Main street the desperate desper-ate fugitive was brought down by a blow from a piste! In the hands of a bystander. Police officers claimed him and he was surrendered reluctantly enough to the law. He proved to be J. J. Morris, a ranchman, 26 years old, who, with John Murray, a miner, had turned robber rob-ber and held up the pawnshop of A. L. White, 60 East First South street, getting about $6,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry. There were three men in the store who stood meekly under 1 the holdup's gun, but started In pursuit pur-suit when the robbors attempted to escape with their plunder. Morris ran down Commercial street to Second South. Murray dodged i through an alleV to State street, ran I down to Second South and drew off 1 the crowd with a revolver, but stopped and dropped the weapon when he look-i look-i ed Into the muzale of a police gun In i the hands of Officer McCormlck. On his way to the police station he dropped a handful of diamonds on the street. Only a part of the loot has been recovered. Occurring just as the business houses were closing before 6 o'clock and as hundreds of persons were waiting wait-ing for street cars at the scene of the tragedy, the affair cauGed the wildest excitement. Mr. Wellman, who 16 seriously wounded, was taken to a hospital. Ha may die. Hlgglnbotham's wound Is not dangerous. Morris and Murray are In the city Jail. Tho two men walked boldly into the loan office and Conner asked A. W. White, the clerk in charge-, if the "boss" was around. When, informed inform-ed that tho proprietor was not In, Conner Con-ner drew a revolver from his pocket and covered White, demanding that he place both his hands on the counter. coun-ter. iMorrls had drawn his gun simultaneously sim-ultaneously with Conner and covered Leo Friedman, the second clerk, and Herbert La Fleur of the Occidental hotel who was in the store at the time. When nil three of the victims had their hands on the counter and were under the gun of Conner. Morris leaped leap-ed over the counter and began rifling tho show cases of their diamonds and othor valuables. White was commanded com-manded to open the safe and did so. When the safe had been looted Morris told his companion that he had everything every-thing they wanted and they backe'd I out of the store, keeping their victims ! covered with their guns until they reached tho street. The pawnshop proprietor followed quickly and gave tho alarm. The men had just turned into Commarcial street and in a moment a crowd was at their heels. At Orpheum avenue the robbers rob-bers parted Murray fleeing through Orpheum avenue to State street, running run-ning south on that street to Second South and then west on Second South. Morris kept south on Commercial street, pulling his gun as he went and threatening death to everybody in sight. By the time Morris ha'd reached reach-ed Second South street fully 100 men wore after him. He ran onto the sidewalk side-walk near Hold's penshop, and here ho encountered Walter Axtell, night flremau nt the Cullen hotel. Axtoll grappled with the robber but Morris broke loose and shoving his gun against Axtell's breast, fired. The bullet bul-let penotratod Ax toll's heart and he foil forward on his face, after ex-cmlmlng. ex-cmlmlng. "I am shot." Morris then attempted to run on west flourishing his gun and still crying cry-ing that he would kill anybody who attempted to interfere with him. The crowd, which at this time numbered num-bered fully 5Q0, was closing in on the desperado, however, and he fired another an-other shot, the bullot finding its mark this time in the right breast of E. E. Wellman, who resides at 43 East Second Sec-ond South street. Wellman was quickly placed in an automobile and rushed to SL Mark's hospital, whero ho is in a critical condition. i A moment later Frank D. Higgin-. Higgin-. botham, a well known Salt Lako mau, was struck by a stray bullet, tho missile mis-sile entering t,he calf of his loft leg. Morris then attempted to reach the corner of Second South and Main, but just before he arrived, at the corner Patrolman Hlnton and the crowd closed clos-ed in on him Seizing a favorable opportunity op-portunity Hlnton struck the murderer over the head with a gun and the chaso was over. In the meantime Murray, tho other robber, had run west on Second South street from State street, and was prac-ticnlly prac-ticnlly in the middle of tho street between be-tween the Continental bank and the Kenyon hotel, when a crowd of citizens citi-zens and Patrolman McCormlck closed in on him. "Hands up or I will kill you," shouted tho patrolman, and Murray, Mur-ray, who had thrown his gun away, promptly obeyed. Detective Schultz had arrived on the scene in tho mean-1 time, picked up Murray and assisted McCormlck In making the arrest. A few minutes later both robbers were behind the bars at the city jail. When Morris was knocked to tho sidewalk and captured by Patrolman Hinton, near the corner of second South and Main streets, after the murder mur-der of Axtoll and the shooting of Well-man, Well-man, there wore crlos of "Lynch lljm!" but the officers, assisted by a number of citizens, hustled the mur-deror mur-deror into a public automobile and .rushed, him to the station. In tho meantime tho police automobile automo-bile had appeared on tho scene and Murray was taken to tho station in that machine En route Murray threw his loot from tho car, but ho was caught in the act and tho plunder rocovored. It consisted of diamond stick pins, diamond rings and earriugs and other jewelry. Later, Joe Burns, colored, and Sam-uelson, Sam-uelson, the East Second South street pawnbroker, arrived at the station and turned over to the officers other valuable valu-able found on Second South stroet. Samiiolson had picked up three diamond dia-mond rings valued at $1,000. Axtell Weil-Known Man. Walter Axtell, the Cullen fireman who was shot dead by Morris, was a slnglo man and lived with his aged father and mother, L. C. Axtell and wife, in Mill Creek. In fact It is said of him that he never married becauso of the fact that he deemed his first duty to his parents. Axtell was born at Richfield, Sevier county, thirty-six years ago and came to Salt Lake county coun-ty with Mb parents thirty-four years ago. He had always been a laboring man and had only been employed at tho Cullen a comparatively short time. Although employed In the city he went home every morning, his work keeping keep-ing him in the city nt night. Ho reached his homo at tho usual time yesterday morning nnd left at the usual time in tho afternoon for the city. Ho had probably not been on Seco"hd South street more than flf-tcon flf-tcon minuted at tho time he was murdered. mur-dered. L. C. Axtell, the father, lived in Salt Lake for years and at ono time vas prominent in political affairs. At first Axtell's Identity was not known, but the body was idontifled later, at O'Donnell & Co.'s undertaking establishment by Charles Giggle, day engineer at the Cullen, and Chief of Police Barlow telephoned the heartbreaking heart-breaking news to Axtell's aged father and mother at Mill Creek. They, as well as other members of tho family, wero prostrated with grief. E E. Wellman, who was shot In the right side and seriously although not dangerously wounded, Is a widower and lives at 43 East Second SoutA street. He has made his home at this place for a little over three years and has worked for P. J Moran and In a smolter In Garfield. He has been an j Odd Follow for over thirty years, be-1 longing to this lodge at Rawllngs, Wyo. He has two daughters, both of whom live in this city. His daughters aro Mis Wendall Cunningham of G68 Brixen court and Mrs. Ray Hansen or 236 South Second East street. Dr H. B Sprague remo ed the bullot from the muscles In Wellmnn's back yesterday yester-day and said that his condition was favorable. Frank D Higginbotham, the third man who wns shot, is supposed to have been struck by a stray bullet and it is not known who shot him. The bullet bul-let entered tho fleshy part of his left leg, below tho knee, causing a painful but not serious wound. Mr. Higginbotham Higgin-botham received his wound on Second South street, near the point where the other men were shot. Mr. Higginbotham Higgin-botham recently came here from Ogden Og-den to enter tho employ of J. E. Dooly. Some years ago Mr. Higginbotham nas one of the best known stock-brokers in this city and for years preceding preced-ing he had been the private secretary of tho late D. H. Peery, Jr. Iramed- I lately after tho shooting Mr Higgto- W botham was removed to his home at ii V 662 EaBt Twelfth South Btreet and was f W resting easy last night i Under the law passed by the recent R legislature, making the maximum pun- , ishment for robbory life imprisonment both Morris and Murray are sure of a' ( life sentence in the stato prison. Thero ( Is practically no doubt, of course, that i Morris will bo given tho death penalty, as there are a numbor of oye-wlt h nessos to his killing of Axtoll Mur- i rny may attempt to plond that ho had if separated from Morris and thrown away his gun at the time of the mur- i der, but even if It is held that he Is t not responsible, under this clrcum- 1 stance, for tho murder, Jio can be sent to tho penitentiary for the remainder re-mainder of his life for tho robbery of the pawnshop j Vltnesc Makes Statement. The principal witnesses of tho kill- ' ing of Axtoll were Thiaas Shannon, i brother of Lieutenant R. L. Shannon, who conducts a clothing store at 20 East Second South street, and E. H. Roberts of 115 East South Temple jj street Mr Shannon made the follow- Ing statement at pollco headquarters ' last night- "It seemed to me that the man who ' killed Axtell was going to run fluBh i into a moving street car as he came out of Commercial street Axtell, i dashing In front of the fender of tae i, car. He seized the highwayman by i the shoulder and arm and they almost ' stumbled to tho streot, when his ad- I, versary made a quick turn and thrust J tho revolver which he carried In hU j hand against his breast As It went off Axtell reeled and fell to the j street Tho highwayman continued and thore was moro shooting" V Hlgglnbotham's Story. j K F. D. Higginbotham, bookkeeper for B .T.a E. Dooly, was standing on the ' K southeast corner of Main streot and ? Second South streets, with his sister, Mrs. L H. Woodsman, when he was ', struck by a fragment of a flying bul- , let, which entered the front of his f left leg, between tho knee and ankle, j Ho was taken into the Kenyon barber L shop by Fred Ilalverson. and later 'J removed to the office of Dr. William F. Boer, where ho became the patient ' of an old schoolmate, whom he had not seen for thirty-one years. After j. the removal of a portion of the leaden ball he was taken to his home, CCS j East Twelfth South street :' "It all happened so quickly," Mr Higginbotham declared after the bullet bul-let had been removed from his leg, . "that I hardly knew what had happened hap-pened We had just stepped up to the jb corner, where we were to take the i cars going to our homes Hearing tho i shots, I looked up and though I saw j a plain clothes man fire twice at the 1 fleeing holdup It wns the second shot from his gun that struck me, apparently ap-parently strikin.?! the pavement befQro (Continued on Page Seven.) , Desperate Bandits In Salt Lake City (Continued From Page Four.) It struck me. At first I hardly realized real-ized that 1 had been hit, tho only Intimation In-timation being a Btlnglng sensation In my loft leg. I looked around for my sister, but she had fled as the holdup, purs ed by tho-erowd, nearcd tho corner. cor-ner. Not until I went Into the barber shop did I know that I .had been shot." "I do not think I was hit by a bullet bul-let from tho hbldup's gun. A plain clothes man had a weapon In his hand who, after firing twice, clubbed him with his revolver. It was the second shot which he fired that scorned to glanco and strike me." At the office of Dr Beor, an examination examin-ation was mado of the wotmd, and one-half one-half of what appeared to be tho slug from a 38-callbro cartridge was removed. re-moved. The lvajl entered the leg. a trifle to the left of the shin bone, penetrating pen-etrating the flesh to a depth of two Inches. Only a part of the bullet was removed last night, a swelling which rapidly set In making It impossiblo to probo tho wound further. Whether this was all of the bullet that struck Mr. Hlgglnbotham has not been determined de-termined yet. An X-ray photograph will bo taken today, to determine whethor or not a part of tho bullet is not still left, in tho wound. Because Be-cause of tho swelling. Dr. Beer was unable to determine last nteht whethor wheth-or there had bepn any bones shattered shat-tered by the bullet. Are Old Schoolmates. Not until thou wound had been-dressed been-dressed by Dr. Beer and Mr. Hlgglnbotham Hlggln-botham ready for removal to his home, did either recognize the other a8 a former schoolmate It was when Dr. Beer asker for the namo and address of tho pationt that the acquaintance was discovered. When the patient replied that his name was F. D. Hlgglnbotham, Hlg-glnbotham, the surgeon utered an exclamation ex-clamation of surprise "You're not Firank lligginbotlinm of Ogden?" Mr Hlgglnbotham replied in tho affirmative. "Well, well,", Dr. Beer said, as he clasped the hand of the patient, "you don't romember me. You remember Frank Beer who used to go to school with you in 1S7S and 1S79." and then tho patient clasped tho hand of the burgeon, as signs ' of recognition flashed across hls features. Mr. Hlgglnbotham was then placed in Dr. Beer's automobile and removed re-moved to his homo, while both the doctor and the layman plan for a happy reunion and mutual Lalk of events slnco 1SS0, the last tlmo tho two had met to know each other, prior to yesterday's meeting Eye Witness Describes Murccr. Edward H. Roborts, an advertising agent, who stopping temporarily In tho city, was ono oi tho eye-witnesses to the murder of Axtell. His version, of the tragedy follows. "I was walking cast on Second South street, near the Cullen uotel when I heard shoiits and realized that something out of the ordinary waB going go-ing on. I ran down past the Desky store on Second South street. At this tlmo I could see hundreds of people peo-ple In pursuit oi tho two holdups. Just as I passed the corner ouo of the robbers, rob-bers, whom I afterward learned was Murray was surrounded nnd captured about tho middle of tho street, between be-tween tho Continental bank and tho Desky store. Then I saw Morris run onto tho sidewalk near Hold's store, Axtell I learned his name later grabbed Morris as he was running cast. I saw Morris's gun and I called to Axtell- 'Lot him loose, he has a gun and will kill jon.' At this Morris toro himself loose from Axtell and shoving his gun against Axloll's breast fired. Axtell clapped his hands to his breast and cried out: 'I am shot. IledthDnfcll foomd, dead. f "Morris then wheeled and shot again. The bullet struck tho man whom I later learned wns tVellmau. I nan to Wolliuan's aid and he sajd ho believed he was shot. I saw tho blood on bis shirt and tearing open the ahlrt tho wound was displayed, It was near the nipple on tho right brcasL I assisted a number of men whom I did not know to placo Well-man Well-man In un automobile and he wa.j taken to a hospital. "I heard still another shot, but f did not, know whether it took effect or noL Almost Immediately .Morris wns knocked down and ocrpowercd and taken to the pollco station in an automobile. on- |