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Show mm story AS TO SHOOTING OF EDWARDS The Price Advocate has a sensa tional article on ihe Blackhands ln i Ogden, ln which i.ome ugly inslnua tlon are made that seem to be wholly whol-ly unwarranted The Advocate's article ar-ticle is as follows: "The state at large is very much I excited over the b'ackliand at Og den The governor of the state of l'tah has offered a reward of $500 for the apprehension of the man. or men who shot Dave Edwards Sun day Elsewhere In this Impression j appears some of the usual pres dispatches dis-patches In regard to th' matter. The Ad'.ocate Tuesday had the privilege of interviewing one of the very efficient special agents of one of the large corporations of the state of Utah His name has been with held for obvious reasons and at his request 'The so-called 'black hand operations at Ogden." said he to The Advocate. Is all buncombe It is the veriest kind of rot and if the governor gover-nor or anyons else in authority wants to get at the root of the disturbance in Ogden all he has to do is to mnje a thoroughr Investigation ln the sheriff's sher-iff's office and police department of that city ' 'I say today that Dave Edwards my personal friend, was shot by no simpl through petty jealousies and because he had made good as a special spe-cial agent " 'It will be remembered that Edwards Ed-wards w-a? the man that caught the blackmailer of Miss Bamberger in I the Dooly block at Salt Lake City a few weeks ago. When he went to deliver the monev asked for by the "black handers' he was a fac-simile of ; Eccles as nearly as he could be made i He proceeded to the spot designated I to put the money but Edwards was l shot down before he reached t)ie place where he was to leave it, and i even after the man was helplessl.v ' wounded no attempt was made b his assailants to get the money " You can safely advise vour read ers that Edwards was shot by no black hander and further, none of the members of that famous Mafia society are at work in the state ac cording to those in a position to know " 'There Is one encouraging feature fea-ture In thi6 Ogden notoriety When Kd wards went to the operating table he told his friends that all he wanted was to live a wel dav and he would bring the men into camp who shot him. but that If his physicians advised advis-ed he could not recover he would then reveal the names of the man, or men, who shot him '' "The Advocates informant further states that ln the event of Edwards' death such famous gunmen as "Dia-mondfleld "Dia-mondfleld Jack'" Davis. Axel Steele and Jack Knudsen will make an ef- j fort to see that the ons responsible for his shooting are brought to Justice." Jus-tice." In regard to the above LeRoy Ec j cles when seen today said that in his opinion there v as absolutely nothing to the story and that he did not be lleve that the injured detective. Da-; Da-; vld Edwards, had made any such I statement. He also said that he thought it had its source, as had many of the recent stores published, purely in the imagination of the w rlter. |
