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Show tfWi M 4 IB- Murder Wiil Out j Says Writer in BB Reviewing Crimes T B IIAKKY P. BAGM Y) JrHB Murder will out " fife j will tills almost hrovucuble strand in the social fabric of civilization '"iISsmI stand the test In every Inst sea ' !$W Are murderers always, at soms :.jBfl KlllSe m their existence, sourht out :md bpanded as committors or an 01-ronao 01-ronao Efcatnst humanity? nB,Hon Kor instance, will citizens of pftfen 1 :813 fer become possessed Of the IdSntlU Yi&M of the man who, nearly two scow years aBo. shot and killed Seympr lW Clark, a deputy sheriff ' v 1 Will the identity of thi mui ':;'1B5 who were responsible for the death an irullv idua! wlu.s. w - foun.l ' im3 In a-coal shed at the rear ot a down- B town business block ever become B Known, or will the identn-. ..( ih- inur- -WR 'lerer of another individual, whose 3f:3J l.ody was found ;it the bottom ol a pond some years ago, where the i o Jffl iry club now located, become sJmMM Known ( HIORAL G N. ; $f M The last named victims of murderers died as the result of administration ri-'jffl Pt n overdose of chloral, given WIlO the view of incapacitating them so a. that they could not resist robber m And last but not least, who "trucK W h blow that killed the man loumJ 'iMfrm neartv a year ago in an outhouse near FM Pacific avenue ami Twenty-ninth. IHI street" -HM In this Instance a railroad worker, ''Wan had been struck In he head, appar-, enUy with a pick Did revenge prompt !.;.S Mils blow? Was the man killed MM ' some one who wanted to despoil the Edi body"' Score? of quesiions us to the SSSJaa motive of the crimes arise in -very ; Xhwtam instance Each msu-r utath is the fl&BKH basis of hypothesis, theories and specu- aSIH lations Generally one of these prove 0iH the essential plan for effecting the f H : apture of the murdi rer 1 iccaslonally the criminal escapee, desplti all M 'y orta to bring bin ti Ju V The case of Seymour Clark. Igden 9 depute sheriff, who met with death H H v - hi th "l d. io 11 MM MM i,.r a social ouua.-t. ' was i.m ..t ih" , imKi horrible trafcCdlCS that over bap- BB pened hereabouts. It happened some MSI vears ago. Manv have probably for- k down H while others prolu W heard of the. happening. Fj Seymour Clark was a deputy sherift la'i under Sheriff Darlow B Mlson. who 1 u now desk sergeant at the police Bta- M9J Hon. There was a session of night yMjfH; court at the courthouse. ityjMl Sheriff Wilson Deputy Shorn 1 - lark fJ , j ;; hud Deputy Sheriff John tffurph w efe !;Kalj? attending the court session 'Ss 'fne men were called from the court IfljsM. 'i un,i Sheriff W ilson was told thai h- Qnpy -,vas wanted on th? telephone. BHBj "There's a tramp In my barn ana jWJK he Is sick. 1 won't have him In the i$38S house You better come and get him feywOfl He's ;rA to freeze stiff before morn- j ing This It So-and-So at Uintah " m ERR M OF MERCY. 9H A blizzard was raging A tramp of ImB wliose existence the officers had nV I 'SmB heard until a moment before, was dj "'rjfiH 'ng from lack of attention and expos tfrSH ure. Deputy Sheriffs Young and B3 Brown harnessed a team to a light laffiH wagon, fftid despite the frigid wind jvhich whipped their faces with granu- ii'taM cold Journey of mercy. raL l.'nder the stimulus of the cutting Hp -. wind the horses needed no urpmt; to r'$ifEr hurry The trip to Uintah was made ' Ttv In short time. 1 he sick man wan lifted arefuU) In the bai k of l he llghi iALjjjfl wagon and prejtarations were made for E9BH h return trip. The officer, with a hu- SBHJ man derelict safely stowed in the wag- BBBJ n. started back to the county Jail. PgOl thinking perhaps of the warmth and gvflH comfort to be had at the county 1r I building HhbJ Jogging along at a moderate paceg J horsi-- s.i.l.i. nl; i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 rum the HBL Seeking the cause of the horses' -v I .imenl. the men drew the team to halt and peered Into the darkness. Piielr eyes, as they became accustomed to the gloom, made out several large square objects The packing cases, as it was later proven, were full of shoes and had been unloaded by box car bandits In the immediate vicinity oU the Uintah elation. As the men peered at the bOKOfl and commented to each other, the heud , and shoulders of a human figure was' seen to arise from behind one of the boxes. 'Don't stop here Get along an J tend to your business," a voice called. Acting under the conviction that something was wrong, the officers rose I j from the wagon seat. Clark was driv-l itig the team lie was .it.'. ul t.. Jump w9 7 from the wagon A shot rang out.; 3 Clark fell to the snow -covered road- way. Shot followed shot and Murphy ra Vvk Was 'n lne band Even the mlser- ia1B able tramp in the rear of the wagon did not escape a bullet from the un-' un-' known criminal. He apparently tried ''frM 10 rlt!e rom lne wagon bed and his 'aJB arm was ripped from wrist to Hhov. 'lyM by a bullet. IJfl 'Though the blizzard had been rag- JjflB ing, the volume of the wind had In- I'J ereased by this time until a veritable jL 1 hurricane was shrieking through Wi - I; her canyon. M'.B The horses of the officers' team. upon hearing the pistol reports, ran away The tramp was thrown from ''.fi'ffl 'he wagon and walked to the Uintah i&S .station and was given shelter Sheriff Barlow Wilson, who had re- ntelned at the court, was notified. A flftiisB posse was organized. Plans were laid jjjfrijM io scour the land near l lntah Town-; M'Hj ' rid cities east of Ogden were notified fejjjB to watch for the desperadoes. Orders H3jH I re issued to urrest every person d 1-TlB found out that night, and to hold them iw'lwH until they could explain their reasons LSjpl fpr being out in such bitterly cold 1 1 " r sHh Bowing their heads to the ic blaft, ftlH which smote them like a jet of liquid IgHV air. officers from the police and sher- ptl ift's department searched for the un- i.ne'.n murderer SKAUfH FAILKD Tracks were obliterated bj the drift-wBf drift-wBf 'ng snow. Drifts, neck deep, hindered H locomotion. Though the search was jgjH "Oiitlnued for months, no trace of the BjV murderer, who had shot and killed tM one man and injured two other", fat.il- BjH ly for all he knew, In an effort, to Sjjjfl evade the penalty for the theft which S'iaa It is surmised he committed, could be found. KH Wlio was the man? What was his nationality? 2HH Who were his confederates" h The last question may at some time RRB he answered by a remorseful confess- Ion from some of the men implicated iSI hi the crime. It appeared that more i , -Hl than one man had been mixed up in '''ilriH robbery of the packing cases full MM of shoes. The Union Pacific company had a standing rule at that time thai all trains should stop at Uintah for) f:e minutes. The pacltinj cases ap-Kl ap-Kl purently were tiJ ,30t of a box car Tjtff robbery. A Lene man could not have 1 P' unloaded the cases. Who were the I m 'nirderer's confederates? HH Krom Omaha, Neb, to San Ki.m clsco. the murderers were sought. A jfflg ! - woman charged her husband with the WtM murder but it was later discovered she had falsely implicated her spouse, m ' tan effort to collect the reward which was standing A dope ' fiend In Omaha admitted he had killed Clark lie was brought; 'to ogden where he confessed to hav- tng said he killed Clurk merely to sc-ri sc-ri transportation away from Omaha.' lie knew not the slightest detail re-: garding the crime of the topography Of the country surrounding the scene pf the tragedy It was definitely established es-tablished that he had not committed th-- murder of i-Vymour Clarli But sometime, somewhere, if one, I views precedent :ts authority, the mur-; derer of Seymour Clark may become i i known. |