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Show oo ' BANDIT ESCftPES : AFTER SHOOTING i ! SALT LAKE, Dec. 23. No trace of 1 the bandit who seriously wounded : Deputy Sheriff W. A. Thomas in a battle in the waiting room of the Bamberger Bam-berger Electric railroad at North Salt .Lake Saturday night and later ex-' ! changed shots with Deputy Sheriffs I George Vine and Arthur Walker at the sheriff's station at Beck's Hot Springs, ! has been had since pursuing officers picked up the coat of the fugitive as lie fled toward the swamps near the j northwestern part of the city early Sunday morning. The man fled in a southwesterly direction di-rection after firing two shots at the deputiese when they commanded him to halt as he jumped from the taxi-cab taxi-cab ; in which he was attempting to enter the city. According to the driver of the machine, Tony Arnold, the call for the taxi came over the telephone early Sunday morning and directed him to call for his party at the hotel at North Salt Lake. He met his fare shortly after leaving the pavement about half a mile south of the hotel and started to make the return trip to Salt Lake. He said the first intimation inti-mation of the trouble came when Deputy Dep-uty Vine called to the man to halt as he jumped from the taxi. Efforts on the part of the police to determine where the telephone call for the taxicab came from were fruitless. fruit-less. The taxi driver said he failed to get the namo of the party calling, but was under the impression that It was a different voice from that of the fugitive, fu-gitive, and advanced the theory that tho desperado had a confederate in town. He said ho was not acquainted with the man, though he believed him to be a regular patron of taxicabs. Two previous calls had been received by another taxicab company for, cars to be sent to the same locality, but in both instances the driver returned with the information that he was unable un-able to find the man who summoned him. I Accurate descriptions of the man were furnished the police by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lewis, 16. Montana apartments, apart-ments, who were passengers on the same train from Ogden to North Salt ' Lake, and who accepted the invitation I , of the bandit to finish the trip to Salt Lake In tho taxicab which ho said would be waiting at tho North Salt Lake station. Mrs. Lewis narrowly escaped being shot when Deputy Thomas attempt' ed'to shoot Ills assailant in tho railroad rail-road waiting room. Three shots were fired by the deputy before the gun was knocked out of his hand, all of them lodging in the walls and scats in the waiting room. As the gun was knocked out of his hand, Thomas was given a push by the man and struck ' the window, breaking the panes and j receiving several cuts on the back of his head. When he regained his feet i ho attempted to get out of the room and was shot by the would-be bootlegger. boot-legger. - on |