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Show oo BLACKMAIL CASE SLEUTH IN HOSPITAL David Edwards. former Weber county deputy sheriff and widely known throughout the stale as a police J officer, is critically ill in the Holy Cross hospital in Salt lakc from pneumonia, pneu-monia, acconllng to Information whlcli reached ( gden today Mr. Edwards was taken ill Saturday Satur-day and was rushed to the hospital Monday His wife la at the bedsM The officer was adlvi- in the Ogden case of blackmail and dynamiting in '1913 In which Joseph Martin attempted attempt-ed 'o wring money from a number of llrxnl citizens through :i series of threatening letters. Following the dynamiting dy-namiting of the Eccles home Edwards went In disguise to arrest the black-mallers black-mallers and was shot from ambush and woundt-d Mr. Edwards was at Wendover when ho was taken HI Saturday. |