Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-09-16 | Page 4 | Game Warden is Shot and Killed by Young Man

GIMEWAflDEN IS SHOT 111 KILLED BY YOUNG Ml Jnhn Pux'on. same warden of the !lioek Fprinss district in Wyoming, jwas shot nnd so severely wounded yesterday afternoon that he died a few hours latef Joe Mates, aged 18. n.i-arrested n.i-arrested and lodged in the city Jail 'accused with the crime, Mr IiiiMnn v.is driving in bis automobile auto-mobile accompanied bjry his wife, and when Bearing ki Plane, a mine shift llg miles from Hock Springs, he heard pun shots nnd loft the machine to in- e6tigate. It in said that he found two boyt, r nf nf whom had a gun, and that Mr iDux'on took (he weapon from iho hoy I nd turned to cn bar k to his car. H' only took a few stops, however, when three shots ran? out. urn of the hul- lts pasin.z through Mr Iiuxum's . back and loft luns. ji The wounded man va- abl" to. get near ihe car to notify h i r. wife and she imnjedlgtelyy hastened to Bl Plai for assistance. This obtained they I started for the hospital at Rock! -'mngs, bu' the wounded man died on the routo According to word received here, ! ! Mates was found hiding near he scene of the shooting Joe Coleman who was with Mates at the time said ithiit h prcr-nt d Mai g from firing a fourth shot.