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Show TOY SMITH IN CITY JAIL "Toy" Smith was landed safely In the city Jail yesterday, after au at. senco slnco last Monday afternoon, when ho attempted to kill Officer Mohlman In tho Ogden saloon, near tho corner of TweDty-flfth street and Lincoln avenue. He was captured at Evanston. Wyoming. Thursday night, and tho officer whose life he attempted Journeyed there after him. "Toy" Is well acquainted with tho keepers of the Qgden jail and with many of the officers. When ho aroso this morning he cordially greeted Officer Offi-cer Leever, under whom ho worked on the chain gang a few months. To Mr. Leever he said: "Hello. Tommy, how arc you? Are you still running the chain gang? 1 am glad to see you." Mr. Leever states that "Toy" never gave him trouble when he had him In custody, and was airways quite accommodating. accom-modating. And yet, tho officer states, he always considered him a dangerous character. When Officer Mohlman visited "Toy" in tho Eanstou jail, the day after his arrest, the negro did not recognize him as the ofllcer he had tried to shoot, and he proceeded Immediately Im-mediately to tell Mr. Mohlman of the awful clubbing tho Ogden ofllcer gave him, saying It was the cause of the shooting. He was somewhat taken back when he learned that he was talking to tho man he attempted to kill. "Toy" also told tho officer that ho spent Monday night, after tho shoot-1 Ing, In the left of a barn on Twenty-1 eighth street, and that he heard every I word that passed between the officers and the lady who hnd seen blm In that vicinity. He said that as he listened, partly covered with hay, ho made up his mind to fight If the officers offi-cers camo near him. The slug that was fired at Mohlman Mohl-man by the desperado was yesterday taken from the butcher shop front across the street from where the shooting occurred, where It had almost al-most burled Itself in the wood. It was dug out with a pocket knife and turned over to Mr. Mohlman as a keepsake. It is a 15-callhre slug and .was mashed almost flat bv coming In contact wlih the plate glass of Uie saloon window tbrouh which It passed. Immediately after barfly missing I ho officer's head. Smith will be charged with an assault as-sault wlth iDtont to murder. |