Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-03-30 | Page 1 | A Midnight Mulatto Prowler Shot Dead

I A Midnight mulatto Prowler Shot I Dead CLEVELAND March SOFor several I nights past the family of W D Hoyt I have been annoyed by a man looking in at the windows About 7 oclock this evening Mrs Hoyt noticed a face at the window Hoyt went outside and seeing a man in the yard he commanded him to throw up his hands The stranger reached for his hip pocket and Hoyt fired shooting shoot-ing him through the heart The dead man is a mulatto whose identity it is impossible im-possible to ascertain Hoyt gave himself up to the police He is a stenographer in the employ of the Standard Oil Company Com-pany