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Show UTAH SENSATION IS RECALLED BY DEATH SALT IJVKE CITY. April S. The ntnr.ln.? fight with the Salt Lake police po-lice spoken of by James Hail In his dying eonfesflon at San Francisco was one of th most exciting eplixles In the annals of the pollen department depart-ment Police Sergeant Roberts was making his rounds on Commercial Hreet at 3 o'clock on the morning of December 20. when a man clad In trousers and iinderhlrt rame through a swinging door, pressed a revolver against the officer's stomach until he had the npn nfreet in front of hlm and then took to his heels w ith 'Roberts 'Rob-erts In pursuit. Oth'r officer took up the chas of tho half-naked man, firing all around him. Hall. howeer. wa.s reserved by fate for the bullet ftp-d today by his San Francisco antagonist Unwound-d, Unwound-d, ho dashed through bunches of spectators, called to the street by the rattle of firearms. Now and then he stood off obstruslve bystanders by snapj.Inj his empty pistol. Dodging through an alley he shook off hi. pursuer?', pur-suer?', but emerged on Main street, stood up a nlihtwatchman with his ompty gun and with the watchman's hat on his head, sought cover In the Interior of a business block. There all trace of hlm was lost. The fugitive. It transpired, had held up two waiters In Young's cafe and taken $lTo from the cash r'glter. He was traced to a lodging houso a few doors from the cafe and found In the hall half -undressed. While waiting for the restaurant men to Idon tlfy him he persuaded (he policemen guarding hlm to let hlm go to his room for a coat. There he locked the door on the Inside and took to the fire escape. Two weeks later the cafe employes J identified Joseph Haley, a soldier under un-der arrest for desertion at Ft. Douglas, as the robber. Haley had an unserved sentence of two and a half years, charged against him and the military authorities did not think It worth while to press the robbery accusation. accusa-tion. Haley left with other prisoners for the Alcatraz Island prison at San Francisco on F-b. 28. Tho local officers cast doubt on Hall's confession and suggest that he knew Haley and nought to do tho latter lat-ter a good turn on hla death-bod. |