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Show ISALT LAKE MM SHOT WHILE Mill I MID fl HOME I , fl.AT.T LAKE, Dec. 26. A man sup-I sup-I iposcd by tho police to bo Oliver Fox, H about 25 years of age and home un-I un-I known, was shot and instantly killed at 2 o'clock this morning by Clarence Livingston, 618 Seventh avenue, when he' was discovered prowling about the L Livingston premises, apparently trying the windows. I ' According to Mr. Livingston, ho and I 1 his family had just returned from an j evening spent with his wife's parents, and Mrs. Livingston was in the act of putting her children to bed, when F. Hartwell, a street car conductor, who j resides next door, came to their door J and informed them that ho had observed ob-served a strange man apparently lam-I lam-I perlng with their windows three times I during the evening, and that tho man was at that moment a short distance J down the block. Thereupon Mrs. Liv-i Liv-i ingston stepped out onto the rear porch just in time to seo the man looking look-ing through the aperture of the bed-, bed-, room window, which had been raised about three inches. Sho called to her husband, "There he is now, looking through the bedroom window." ' Mr. Livingston, who is a former dep-' dep-' uty sheriff and also a former guard at the state prison, seized a .38-caliber revolver and went to the sidewalk. "The man was juts leaving tho "window," "win-dow," Livingston told the police, "and I ordered him to. come out on the walk and explain his actions He ran and I went after him. I fired two shots, intending to shoot high, but I did not shoot high enough. Then I called up the sheriff's office and the police and told them about It" One of the shots struck the fugitive i in the back of the neck, passing en-j en-j tirely through it, while the other went wild. I oo |