Show nn TO MS LAYTON CRIME TELLS HOW HE SHOT NIGHT WATCHMAN LAVENDER SHERIFF HARRIS GOOD WORK trailed murderer through idaho and montana on slight clues clue obtained J I 1 morri morn the man who ho shot axtel atel and wounded another man on the streets s treet of silt salt I 1 ake tiler after having kid til id up and looted a pawn shop sh p on first south street has made a con fes fessier feigion in which he acano having hot the night w alliman at L li ton on the coining rno ining of mi ma 5 the confession is a of the stora stor told by bac iff him of D kv v 19 lount county who had trailed the murderer b bi clues he had unearthed at the time the salt like nouli have none of sheriff hams story and rather anther intimated tint that sher iff it sharp was about the only sleuth in this country who could deal with criminals here is the herald lie ile public ant story of the confession dession coi 1 I shot lavender said aid morris morns to sheriff harris murray wai not in the job it was not his fault that he did not gu go with us and it was a wonder that he did nut not blow us all up a 1 couple of hours before we vie were in a field south of layton and murray was sitting on the ground I 1 was wag close him he had a bottle of nitro gli cenne between his feet and was oiling his hi gun he thought that he had removed all of the cartridges and was snapping the trigger ile ho hail had forgotten to take out one shell and this was discharged the bullet hitting a rock k within thre inches of fie nitro glycerine and glan glancing Ling oil against murra 3 lo ot lot t tout foot was hurt and he leftist once tor for ogden 1 I went to laa listen ton and met lavender I 1 asked him if all the trains train were gone and he ha answered aes es then I 1 asked him if h hi knew where I 1 i ret i a room and he said no where is tho the night watchman I 1 asked lavendor lavender replied 1 I aril am tile the watchman I 1 pulled my gun and told him to throw up his hands ile he refused and pulled his gun ilien ihen I 1 shit him 1 lavender was shot the neck and for some ome time his was in doubt the report of the shot fired b mor rig ria aroused the community and headed beaded ba b sheriff harris a aube started in pursuit of the robbers several su spelts were captured and the passe pisse final got on the track of two men six miles irom from ogden they were forced to get through a barbed wire fence and the trousers of one caught on the barbs he ripped them off and left them on the fence hai ing another pair underneath the pair adir which hid become entangled A hat bat was wag also dropped by the fugitives harris recovered the torn trousers and the hat and also found a torn card which later proved to be that cf a rooming house in buise boise idaho tilt hat had been purchased hasea in the golden rule store at tint that place harris went to boise and the woman 0 o who conducted the doumn 0 house identified the trousers ind and hit as haing ha ing been worn by morri she he ala end that a min named l I 1 I 1 ad a been I 1 with till morris morns there murra has h as since been identified as coners the woman gave sheriff harris photographs of the men which they had 13 d P to her with ahlie thi ae photographs sheriff harris iE turned an and d located morris and here on the evening preceding the killing of if axtell lie had about completed the in of morris ind friday he ie said that the f C would hive have been seen under within thirty minutes after the time of tl e killing of atell and the he murder not taken place adfer securing the confes confession gion from morris sheriff harris to murray and the latter confirma the statements in ants made b adorris ile he said flat he ic hid h id almost it tie Is whole gang ba t his carella ness in handling III his re reolder olver ind and alo said th ill it hl he wag in the time of the thoo hooting shooting ting of Lt L verder this statement ement is not be iciek b bj sheriff harris barris ho suil that hat moray did go to 0 ogden nd ragis ter er at a rooming house there later only to return to layton on the 11 tram train |