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Show SAW LOPEZ IN SALOONIN ZION Salt Lake, March 20. That Raphael Lopez, or some man bearing a startling startl-ing resemblance to the outlawed Mexican, Mexi-can, sat In a sociable game of solo in a Main street saloon yesterday, was reported to the police last night. A description of the alleged double was placed on record that detectives of thc department are on the lookout for him. The report was turned in by W. O. Shope of 1818 Indiana, avenue, a structural struc-tural iron worker and a member of the Salt Lake local. Mr. Shope called at Police headquarters last night at 6 o clock and a3ked to seo a picture of the Mexican bandit. He said that he had seen a man who had aroused his suspicions by peculiar actions and remarks. re-marks. Mr. Shope explained that he and the man in question were playing cards at the same table and engaged In conversation. conver-sation. The man admitted that ho came to Salt Lake recently, and, although al-though he talked somewhat freoly. ho seemed to be careful of what ho said. He aroused the suspicion of Mr. Shopo by breaking: away from tho game abruptly and leaving tho saloon alone. At police headquarters Mr. Shope described the man whom he suspected of being Lopez, and the description de-scription tallied startllngly with that of the Bingham slayer. Mr. Shope described his companion of the card table as being a little above medium height, about 180 pounds In weight, dark, with black, snapping eyes inclined to squint, nose slightly flattened at the end, hair thick and black. Asked about tho man's mouth, Mr. Shope said that the left side turned up noticeably. This was I a distinguishing m:irk of Lopez. It was caused b.v an almost iudlscern-Ible iudlscern-Ible scar, but is almost invariably remembered re-membered by all who knew him well Detectives of thc police department were surprised both nt the minuteness of Mr. Shope's observations and at thc resemblance of the description to that of Lopez. When shown five photographs, photo-graphs, Mr. Shope picked out one published pub-lished at the time of the manhunt as that of Lopez, as being that of the man he saw yesterday afternoon. He said that he had no notion where the man went when he left the saloon and no desire to attempt a capture of Lopez, Lo-pez, but wished only to satisfy his curiosity as to why the man should have conducted himself so strangely strange-ly as to break away f'-om a card game without playing out his hand. While it is hardly believed that the slayer of six men. tbrec of them regular reg-ular deputy sheriffs, would risk a return re-turn to tlils vicinity, yet U is known that the Mexican failed, with all his killing, to carry out a threat to murder mur-der Deputy Sheriff Julius Sorenson of Bingham. Deputy Sorenson was the only one who escaped death at the Jones ranch on Utah lake when his three companions fell before the deadly dead-ly aim of the Mexican. It has been said also that Ixpez wanted to even several other scores against porsons in Bingham who furnished information to the officers concerning his return to the mining camp and concealment in the Apex mine after he had beei trailed about the Lake mountains region. |