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Show BURNS AN ALL ROUND BAD MAN KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IMPLI-CATED IN VARIOUS CRIMES. Complaint Filed Analnst Jamet Preston Pres-ton In Ogden Municipal Court Yesterday Afternoon. On Friday night, November 27, 1905, immediately after .11 o'clock. Deputy Sheriff Seymour L. Clark, of Weber county, waa 6hot down In cold blood, by an unknown hand at Uintah, in Weber canyon. Because of the foul crime, the peoplo of Ogden Cfty, Weber Web-er county, and the entire state were thrown Into deep grief and consternation. consterna-tion. Tho man who did the killing was unmistakably a man of dosperato character who had that eight burglarized a box car of the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad and stolen therefrom six boxes of shoes, which he had piled alongside the roadway, preparatory to hauling them away to a point of parcty at which point. they might be disposed of for pecuniary advantage. For a number "of months the olncers of the law have been searching dlll- sworn statements from eye witnesses, wit-nesses, j gently for the man who Is supposed to have committed the crime, but up to tho present time that man has not been apprehended. For a number or weeks It seemed almost Impossible to gain any clue whatever as to the Identity Iden-tity of the guilty party; but. one step after another was taken In the search, until it finally developed that one James Preston was implicated In the burglary of the car of Bhoes. This information in-formation was disclosed through a statement alleged to have been made by, Preston's wife, that her husband had confessed to her that he was a party to the burglary, but that he had nothing to do with tho killing of the ofllcer, Preston stating that a man giving the name of Burns was the one who shot Deputy Sheriff Clark. Preston Pres-ton was placed under .arrest and has been held by tho officers since that time; firt being confined In tho Jail at Salt Lake, but now In tho Weber county jail. Burns, who la an -ex-convict from tho state of California, and whoso photograph was published-In this paper pa-per a short time ago, at the same time giving a detailed account of Preston's confession and the escape from the scene of the murder to Reno, Nev., Is the man wanted for the awful crime and there Is little question but that he will ultimately be apprehended and brought to Ogden for trial His record Is a bad one. He served a term in the California penitentiary at San Quentln for burglary, and since that time he has been known to have been' concerned in criminal operations opera-tions other than the burglary referred to at Uintah and the killing of Ofllcer Clark. Shortly after his release from the penitentiary in California, he was run out of Shafter, Nevada, as an all-round all-round bad man and between that time and the killing of Clark, he has been known to have been connected with burglaries and hold-ups of various kinds. There is but little question tliat Burns Is under shelter at some point west of Ogden. Immediately after af-ter the murder of Clark, he made his way along the railroad track for a considerable distance to his team, which he had tied to a bush and witn the team made his escape Into Davis county, and from there to Salt Lake City, where 1io met his confederate, Preston, whom - he told of the murder. mur-der. It Is now known that there was a third party Implicated In the burglary burg-lary and murder, a mulatto, whoso name Is not known. James Preston was transferred from the Salt Lake to the Ogden jail Tuesday Tues-day afternoon, to face the charge ot burglary. The complaint was liled In the Ogden municipal court yesterday afternoon by County Attorney David Jensen. It being Bworn to by Special Officer T. B. Hart, of the Union Pacific Railroad company. Tho time for . tho preliminary hearing has not been set, but Attorney Jensen stated last evening even-ing that the matter would be taken up at the earliest possible moment. The county attorney is of tho opinion opin-ion that the evidence at hand Is quite sufficient to warrant tho conviction ol Preston of burglary, which was committed com-mitted at Uintah on the night ot Clark's murder, and it Is very likely that the defendant will experience some difficulty in disentangling himself him-self from the Incidents connected with the murder ot Offtcer Clark. It Is thought by , the. officers that the corroborative cor-roborative testimony to be offered In support of Pret'on's alleged conlcs-slon conlcs-slon will be sufficient to convict him of the crime with7 Which he has been charged. Preston has nothing to say regarding regard-ing the matter, and It Is thought that he will make no lurther b'atcments regarding the horrible affair k'ntll tho time of his hearing before the magistrate magis-trate ami possibly not then It may be that he will not be called upon to make a detailed statement of the transactions that fateful night, until Burns Is captured and Preston Is I placed in the witness chair to testify In the case. The circumstances of the tragedy have been given by this paper In as accurate detail as It is possible to detail occurrences not verified by |