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Show VETERAN ADMITslciillM THREE KEN. IN UTAH Confesses That He Laid in Ambush and Shot Down Enemies, Following Follow-ing Quarrel Over Cattle. Los Angeles, Cal Captain W. E. Davis, an inmate of the Soldiers' home at Sawtelle, who is charged with the murder of William Wheeler, has shed some additional light upon three kill- ings which he committed in Utah in September, 1S92. Captain Davis, who formerly lived at Westwater, Utah, is accused of beating Wheeler to death in the latter's photograph studio on New Year's day and then setting fire to the building. Captain Davis, who is a veteran of the civil war, on Saturday told the Los Angeles police of his record in Utah. He said that he was known and feared as a gunman in Utah in the early days and that he killed three men in eastern Utah in September, 1892. Captain Davis told the following story of the killings in Utah: "It was way back in 1892, when that part of the west was oraotieallv a wilderness, that I got into a quarrel with the Brock outfit. The affair grew out of range war among the rustlers and ranchers. Our particular fight was over some cattle which both sides claimed. Matters went from bad to worse and I finally decided to settle the difference in my way. At that time I owned a ranch on the Colorado side, but the fight took place in Utah in the 'Woodenshoe' country, near the Uintah Indian reservation. "Knowing that Brook and his bunch were likely to pass by a certain place the next day, I laid in ambush and when they were in range I opened fire, killing Brock and two others. The fourth got away. I was tried for murder, but was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to the Grand county jail at Moab for eight months." |