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Show BUTTLE WITH RUMRUNNERS Salt Lake Deouty Near Death m Fight in Automobile SALT LAKE Nov 15 - Whisky run ners last night engaged in a pitched hat tie with officers, in Ihe BlOUghfl west of Salt Lake, and escaped afifr exchanging about thirty shots with chief Depnt, Sheriff E SchDppi Motorcycle Patrolman P K Brown oi the police department, and Deput) Slier. ff V M Hushes Lhputv Schoppe narrowly escaped death when one of ih runnen i lints, an automatic plr.tol through the sub curtains of their automobile, on tie tunningboard of which the. officer hnd climbed, nd tressed the barrel to the deputy's stomach. ?hot ram? out as Schoppe, feeling the gun aEaint his bodj fell from the runninsboard of the car. The bullet passed ;i few inches over his head. LEAVE FOR SCENE Warned that a stolen automobile taken during the earl morning of Puesday, November 2. from William L. Iluuvi r oi the Hoover :ind. c iiinptinv at Provo, was in the possession of a gang of supposed whiskj distillers In the sloughs west of the county hospital, hos-pital, the count and cily officers left for the locality at 10 JO o'clock last night. I As thev neared the Denver & Rio Grande railroad Iracka near Thud West street on the Twenty-first South boulevard, they saw ihe headlights of jan automobile approaching Ihem from I Ihe west They stopped Iheir car be hind the railroad embankment and awaited Us arrival i When the powerful machine had reached the top of the grade of the railroad grossing Brown stepped into its path. He displayed his badge and , ordered the ill i ei to .stop. I'ulling on a hurst of speed the chauffeur drov-the drov-the i ar directly at the policeman, who, I side-stepped Schoppe stepped onto 'the running board on one side of the automobile, while Deputy Hughes I jumped onto the running board on the1 other side. They were met with A blaze of fire from at h ast three weapons. Brown .had jumped to ihe running board he I .side Schoppe aud when the i iring com menced he leveled his .'iS caliber pis ;tol at the two occupants in the from I 'seat and emptied the chambers Tht 1 officers wer dislodged from the running run-ning board. The fight continued for two blocks j while ihe officers rested their revolv-1 ! crs and automatics on their arms for jlong distance shouting The occupants lot the automobile brought a 25 35 cali-j per high power rifle into pla and the twang of it could be plainly heard b the policemen as they busied them selves with their own automobile to I I start in pursuit I After pursuing the thugs two blocks I I the officers found the stolen car abandoned aban-doned by the roadside. The lop and. back had been pierced by bullet.- There were indications I hat both per- ( SOni in the front se;,t had been in di-. 'reel line of the shots that had broken' through the seat and Bmaohed the I Windshield. No trace of the occu 'pants could he found in the surround ! ing sloughs no i |