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Show Thugs Kill Police Officer Salt Lake City, Mounted Patrolman Patrol-man David H. Crowther, for many years in charge of the chain gang and trusties at the city . jail, was murdered murder-ed sometime Friday afternoon by unknown un-known assassins, and his body, con-coaled con-coaled in bushes near the west bank of the Jordan river just three blocks north from the Crowther home, was found Sunday morning. He was shot in the back of the head. It is be-i be-i lieved that 'Crowther was shot while i sitting in his automobile and the body ! w-as then dragged into the bushes j and concealed. Detectives are of the opinion that the crime was commlt-i commlt-i ted by members of a gang of yeggs. I jxissibly. by one who had a grudge i against the patrolman as he had Peon i particularly active in ridding the city j cf undesirables during the rast six j weeks. |