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Show KILLING STIRS SALT LAKERS Alleged Accomplices of Officer's Of-ficer's Murderer Taken to State Prison for Safety s.M.T LAKE; Fb. 9. Salt Lake Is aroused to fiver heat ovi the killing yesterday of Petectlve ; B. Hamby, , who died from a shot through the brain at th.- ban. p. ..r Turn "Blackle" Burn's, w ho In i us ii v. as tnortail I wounded by Chief of Police Joseph K , Burbldgc and Detective Clifford Pat-1 Pat-1 ten. UOIOVRD t S 11 t i Bo aroused were citizens Of the clt3 that three other members of the criminal crim-inal gang of which Burns was a member, mem-ber, wire DlaCed within the Utah Stale penitentiary to avetl .t po -. repetition Of the Santa ftosa lynching. The killing of Detective1' liamb) marked Lhe death of the .sixth Salt Lake Peace officer at lhe hands of rimlnals and brought such dlsplaj :niset -ami sympathy from hundreds of persons, that the captured mem-bers mem-bers of the gang were whisked awaj to safety behind the prison walls. Meantime the crowd thai had been seel hint .-.Loot .r.l il,,...,r.l t1... nni. i idcu-s of police headquarters slnci the swift spie.i.i oi the stor" of the ruthless ruth-less killing at 10:45 o'clock yeslerds mOrnlng continued to mill and muttei In ignorance of the fad that the three accomplices of the slayer had been spirited away in an automobile. Ju-: Low II was accomplished without the knowledge even of the members of the polne force except those immediately immed-iately concerned. Chief Burbldge was not inclined lo say after returning to Lhis office yesterday afternoon. "They are out there and lam clad they are," was the terse comment of the ehl i. i HKRS si. l N That Tom "Blackle Burns iwli moi tally wounded b bullets from the 1 pistols of ("hlef Burbidge and Detec-H' Detec-H' Clifford fatten, working mate of Detective Hamby, within a few seconds sec-onds after firing of the shot fhal snuffed out rlambyfs life served only to whet the vengeful mood of the un-invlted un-invlted visitors at police headquarters. They could not forget that three accomplices ac-complices were held in the city jail. Thej talked about the slaying of lomniie Griffith ami the murder of rye.tni lii-nry Jolmsiun. Iv of l In best loved men who er wore police uniform in Salt Dake. They recounted recount-ed how the slayer oi Griffith. Frank Anselmo is now ai large alter es- apint; jihi.i a prison road gang, anl the man Who snot lo death Sergeant Johnston, lilmer Dewey, Is also at liberty lib-erty through the clemency or the state. Many of those at police headquarters headquar-ters were friends of members ol the police force, past or present The) were n sympathy with the feeling that has been growing m police quarters quar-ters ol Salt Lake for years past that the only protection afforded a policeman police-man is his own wariness and inlck- ni ss in time of danger and that the law must be regarded as on the side of the criminal as between the two. This all Was recounted anew, as were the actions of Indignant citizens ot Santa Rosa, Cal.. In hanging there recently three men who kilku police officers undertaking their arrest as memben f thi Howard street, San Pra n Cisco, eanemt ei - IMPULSE I OKI -l M i i 1) ' 'i rtia innei office of the tt.-nsenes of th- feel in S of whkh police headquarters was '.incomer. '.in-comer. Chief BurblQge, with the pre-cautfon pre-cautfon of his many years as a "-m officer, planned arid swiftly executed me transit r of the ihree prisoner- lo the state prison, taking intu his confidence con-fidence only men who tie v.as s.ii were Impervious, to the Impulses characteristic char-acteristic of the wis., undemonstrative undemonstra-tive when most near the deadly explosion ex-plosion that spells the too late'1 for the officer whose confidence in the tblerance of the public lets him forget for-get his responsibilities to the law as to the safety of men in custody. Chief Burbldge was .sightl wounded wound-ed when Burns fired at him from a few paces, the bullet burning the clothing over hfs right breast as it grased the flesh. Detective C. V. RosenkrantS was knocked unconscious earlier In the day by the same band and tied hand and foot In a room In the Delphi hold, formoriy the Stewart. Stew-art. l'33 South state street. SLAIS IN HOTE H M l The slaying of Detective Hamb) occurred oc-curred in a hallway on the second floor of the -N'ord hotel, y9I,i East Second Souiii street, at 10; 16 o'clock yesterday morning. With "htef of Police Uuibl.lge Dili. Mm llauiby was forcing the door of a room In which Burns and possibly a second man were resisting entrance. As the door yielded under the combined com-bined force of the two policemen. Burns fired Into Ihimby's face. The bullet entered the riht oe, crashing through the brain and lodged In the piaster of the wall. The murderei ! turned his weapon upon Chief Bur-! Bur-! bldgM jinn- fired .it iijs diest It struck ;rn chief ;i glancing blow and caused a superficial wound. r n i es t mi l Burns backed n few stcii. down the, hallway, slopped in the doorway leading lead-ing to the stairs and again leveled his sun at Chief Bunbidge. Before he j could pull the trigger, which would probably hae meant the death of Chief Burbidge, as be was only a few feet away, lietective I'ntten fired I from :i landing on the stairs, the shol taltlna effect In the thug's left side. The bullet ranged upward through the abdomen. The imiiet int nded for .Chief Burbldge tore its w:i through the door jam as Burns mq-i mq-i militarily - la :;wr l uniler the mortal I wounds. I With ;t gasp Burns stumbled dow n the ball. Chief Burbidge had opened tire and a bullet from his pistol caused the retreating thug to drop ; to the floor. He dragged himself I through the doorway of a room and lay gasping for breath In a corner. |