Show S MURDERER Of DEPUTY S CLARK SERVED TERM IN SAN I Warden Sends Description as Recorded in California State Prison Burns Posed as asa asa asa a Peddler Rig Used on Night of Murder Thought to Have ilave Been Obtained From Ogden Livery Stable Traced to Reno Preston I S Still in Salt aIt Lake County Jail Win Will Probably Be Brought 5 to Ogden to Answer Charge of Burglary o 0 0 o oO I O 0 Editor 0 O OO O 0 In response to your our request O 0 OO i O 0 of o February G 6 I 1 am sending you OU 0 o oO O 0 herewith enclosed photo ties lIes 0 O OO O 0 and prison record of O CJ OO O 0 our Thomas homas 1 Burns 0 O OO O 0 This Is the same party part of 0 O OO O 0 whom horn ft we wo sent sont u it photograph ph re 0 O OO O 0 coolly to Sheriff Joseph C 0 O OO O 0 Sharp of Salt Lake County Countr 0 O OO O 0 Utah We have no record of 0 O OO O 0 having haing sent picture to the 0 O OO O 0 sheriff of your our county count 0 O OO O 0 I 1 notice that the newspaper 0 O OO O 0 clipping cUppIng enclosed by b you vou gives 0 O OO O 0 the tho first name of Bums as 0 O OO O 0 Frank but we arc Inclined to 0 O OO O 0 believe that our Thomas Burns 0 O OO O 0 is the tho one whoso whose photograph photo ph 0 O OO O 0 and description you Oll desire 0 O OO O 0 In order to ascertain whether 0 O OO O 0 or not the other parties 0 O OO O 0 In the tho crime have hao state 0 O OO O 0 prison records here herc It Is 15 feces 0 O OO O 0 sary to have hac their photographs 0 O OO O 0 and descriptions If It you can 0 O OO O 0 supply me with these 1 I shall be 0 O OO O 0 very vory glad gln to search our records 0 O OO I O 0 and give you ou the result of our 0 O OO O 0 efforts Yours very ery truly 0 O OO O 0 Signed JOHN JOlIN E HOYLE 0 O OO O 0 Warden ardon 0 O OO O 0 0 O t 7 f f fI r 5 fr J S l I f a I i fi L I THOMAS BURNS I IMan I Man Who Killed Seymour L L Clark Deputy Sheriff of Weber County Thomas Burns Is 28 years old height five Ivo feet eight Ight and a fourth fourt Inches weight pounds size of foot six I and a half inches incites hat bat 6 78 eyes dark darle hazel hazol hair black complexion light copper he be is a native of oC California I Ia a laborer by b occupation and having but little education His home Is in Trinity county California and he lie was I sent to the state prison at San Quen Quentin Quentin tin 10 California upon a conviction of or burglary December 11 Li 1897 He lIe was sentenced to ten months imprison imprisonment Imprisonment ment meat and served the tue allotted time The man was waB discharged from the San SlIn prison August 23 1898 A further description of the th tb man he be has a l scar loft little finger 6 ne on the right third finger another above aboe tho the elbow of the right arm a small scar sear on the tower lower ow r lip and one on the ilic left leg leb CK above tho the ankle I kle Further developments In the tho case Indicate that the man who drove droo the team from Kay IlIe on the evening of the tho murder of Deputy Deput Sheriff Clark at Uintah supposed to have been 1 Shine was none other than Burns I Iwho and the rig who as a peddler I he used t fInt nt night is 15 thought to hao have boon 1000 obtaIned from ono one of o the Ogden II livery stables stable Burns concealed the team and anti buggy I in the tho jungles of Weber Weh r river near noar Uintah while he lie went out to turn the box car burglary trick and after he i I S made mado his escape Into S shot tho officer I unknown with the tho team I parts I James Jamos s Preston his accomplice is I the man who vho ran Iown the railroad track as far as and then crossed over oyer to the thc railroad loading lending to Salt Lake safely malting mailing his way war homo home He Re was seen seon at Riverdale be between beI I tween the tho hours baurs of 12 and 1 II that night by b a party of oC young people who were returning from a dancing I party Burns evidently did not follow the railroad track very ery en far but made mado into tho the Jungles of or the S his Ils getaway river where his team loam was tied I Burns has been traced as fiS far as Reno Nevada Novada and It Is 15 the I Islon Isian slon sian that he Is making his way wayt back bacle to his hio old haunts It is quite possible that ho fie will return to Trinity county count California where he will trill find old ac SC acquaintances and an perhaps friends to toI I whom he ho may look for J I 5 is still sUll in the Salt Sail Lake LakeS x u S f fL L county count Jail under a minor charge but It is quite certain K at ho he will soon bo be brought to o Ogden to 9 answer the tha th charge of o burglary All tho the facts Jn In Inthe the case point conclusively to the fact aol that when Sheriff Sharp of Salt Lake llie stated that no such man as James Preston was being held in the tho county count Jail he e did ao so for the purpose of 01 0 misleading the tho newspapers regard regardIng regarding Ing the matter malter I The original story published by tI the 1 I 1 Morning Examiner In advance of all oUter other papers of tho the state giving the I details of Ute the murder of oC Officer Clark was trl and It Is being verified d by hj every overy OCI subsequent act disclosed In con connection connection with the tho th affair |