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Show IeMIoP Bl BLACKMAILERS FALLS INTO TRAP LAID BY MEN WHO PLANNED TO ROB AN OGDEN RESIDENT. Man Who Endeavored to Capture Single-Handed Perpetrators of Dynamiting Dyna-miting Outrage is in Hospital and May Die. Ogden, Utah David Edwards, aged 45 years, a Pinketron detective, is lying ly-ing on a cot at a hospital as the result re-sult of another and futile attempt to capture the blackhand bandits who have terrorized wealthy citizens of Ogden for the past three years. The shooting of Edwards, occurred early Sunday morning. ' Only a week ago the blackhanders, after making death threats, dynamited and greatly damaged the Leroy Ecclea residence. Disguised as Leroy R. Eccles, who had been called upon to deliver $1,000 to the blackhanders, Edwards went to the lonely spot in accordance with instructions in-structions received by letter and telephone, tele-phone, to "get" the bandits rather than deliver up the $1,000 from Eccles and $500 from Ralph E. Bristol, which he carried in a satchel. He was fully armed, but before he was given a word of warning, the three or four would-be would-be murderers, concealed behind fences and bushes, opened fire with shotguns, riddling him with the steel ball-bearings which their shotgun shells contained. con-tained. In spite of the injuries sustained as a result of the cross-fire fusillades from both sides of the road, Edwards raised 'himself from the ground and emptied both . an automatic revolver and shotgun in the direction of his assailants. as-sailants. As a result of this gameness, the detective was able to save the $1,-500 $1,-500 in gold which he toad carried to the spot. The shooting from the sides of the road continued even after Edwards Ed-wards had fallen to the ground. Resi-Idents Resi-Idents of the neighborhood estimate that in all not less than twenty shots were fired. |