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Show BEAD BANDIT, KILLED IN f CHARLES McCULLEN About 19 years old, transient stranger In Ogden, shot and killed by street car Conductor Wood while McCuIlen and a companion, who escaped, were attempting to rob the conductor, October Oc-tober 30 at 7:30 p. m. The dead youth weighs 140 pounds. There Is a red scar on the back of his left hand, also one on his right hand, both apparently from recent wounds, and a scar about 2y2 inches long Just above the right knee. The dead youth's eyes were blue and he had heavy dark auburn hair. McCullen's partner, who vas badly wounded but escaped, is about 21 years old, 5 feet 9 inches, and weighs about 150 pounds. He wore a black hat. Deputy Sheriff Hobson stated today that Conductor Wood is positive that McCuIlen, the decedent, was the one who shot him. When the two young men boarded the car, Conductor Wood had an intuitive warning of their intention in-tention to rob him, but their peaceful appearance allayed his suspicion for a moment. He states that he was just about to say: "I thought you fellows were holdups," when one of them, gun n hand, ordered him to deliver his noney. When the conductor reached oward his pocket, one of them cried, "Lookout!" and the next instant McCuIlen Mc-CuIlen fired. When McCuIlen was fa-tally fa-tally shot by tho conductor, he stag. ' gored 20 feet away and fell, but got up and walked half a block to the ; place where he died. ' The conductor shot the other robber ; at a distance of about 100 feet. Da-spite Da-spite his serious wound, evidently through the lungs, the bandit escaped and was trailed a mile or more by the blood. It is belioved at the sheriff's office I that the escaped bandit probably crept into the underbrush and' died from loss of blood, or that he had friends in Ogden who rescued him and are shielding him. Sheriff DeVine has sent out a large number of photographs in the hope of identifying the dead youth. The body can be kept for months, if necessary, though this will not be done. The corpse is unusually lifelike. life-like. The youth looks, as if he were asleep and thero is nothing grewsome or repulsive In the appearance of the body. |