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Show MORRIS SAYS III SHOTUVERDER SALT LAKE. July 7. J. J. Morris, alias Gcorgo Hammond, convicted murderer of J. W. Axtcll, yestorday confessed to Fred Harris, sheriff or Davis cdunty, at the state penitentiary that ho shot William Lavender at Layton on May 5. during an attempt to rob the Layton bank. i Tho confodnlon clears up the details of tho Layton robbery and ends a hunt which has been conducted throughout the country for the robber, rob-ber, who shot down Night Watchman Lavender. John Murray, who was Implicated with Morris In tho robbery of the Uncle Sam loan office on May 9 of this year, corroborates many of the details of the confession made by Morrlo. J "I Ehnf I.nVfnilfr " rmwmtnH ArnrrlQ to Sheriff Harris. "Murray was not in the job. It wns not his fault that ho did not go with us and it was a wonder that ho did not blow us all up a couple of hours before. j 'We were In a flold south of Layton nnd Murray was sitting on the ground. 1 was close beside him. He had a bottle bot-tle of nltro-glycorlno between "his feet nnd was oiling hiB gun. He thought that he had removed all of the cartridges car-tridges and was snapping the trigger. He had forgotten to take out one shell and this was discharged, the bullet hitting a rock within three inches of the nitro-glycerlno and, glancing off against Murray's foot. Murray's foot was hurt and he left at once for Ogdou. "I went to Layton nnd mot Lavender. Laven-der. I asked him If all the trains wore gone and he answered 'Yes.' Then I asked him it he know where I could get a room and he Bald 'No.' 'Whore Is the night watchmai.7' I asked. lavender replied, I am the watchman.' I pulled my gun and told I him to throw up his hands. He ro-fiified ro-fiified and pulled hl3 gun. Thon 1 Bhot him." j It was feared for a time that Laven- ', dor would die from the neck wound J which ho received, but ho finally recovered. re-covered. The wholo community was aroused I by tho shot fired by Morris and Immediately Im-mediately a poBBc started in pursuit of tuu uraugin, i,uu 1UI1UU OI IIICIT Cap- lure. In running through tho fields one I of (ho robbers caught his trousers on a barbed wire fence. Tho trousers were torn off. At Boise, tho kcoper of a rooming house Identified tho trousers trous-ers as having been wora by Morris. Tho .partner, Murray, was known there as Connors. Photographs woro given to the landlady by the robbors, rand those wero turned over to Sheriff I'lr-ft Trto71t(ri"itlon nf 1" iw men at tho state penitentiary was niado possible bv these photographs, '-? |
