The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-01
DEADLY BATTLE
NEAR HOT SPRINGS
Ogden Citizens Want to Lynch the
Survivor.
Desperadoes Began With Holding Up
a Man Near Brigham-Stood Off
Pursuing Posse In the Early
Morning, and Took to the Hills,
Where They Were Found During
the Afternoon-Excite In
Ogden and Brigham.

Ogden, Utah, April 30.-A desperat
battle was fought by the officers ant
two outlaws in the foothills east o
Willard about 3 o'clock today.
Police Captain William Brown anc
George Morgan, one of the desperadoes
were killed. James Morgan, the othe
outlaw, was taken prisoner and is nov
lodged in the Brigham jail. The Nor
gans are brothers. The prisoner is th'
one who killed Brown. The men ar,
they with whom n pitched battle wa:
fought at the Hot Springs early thi:
morning, as reported in The Herald. af
ter which Captain Brown, together will
Sheriff Layne and Deputies Bailey ant
Belnap. went out in response to the cal
of the Box Elder officers for help.
Ogden has been simply wild with ex-
citement since the news came, and al
first there We're exaggerated rUmors OF
the wounding of Sheriff Layne and also
of the other robber. Although there
were many shots fired, those which
killed Brown and the robber were the
only two which took effect.
Early morning Brush
Carbon, sheriff of Box Elder county.
and his deputy, Dan Thompson, were
the officers who had the brush with the
robbers this morning. and who had been
following them all day, being joined by
the Ogden officers about daylight.
The fight this morning at the
Hot Springs began about o'clock.
The officers wcrc waiting on the porch
of the hotel when the men came along
the road. Sheriff Carbon and Deputy
Thompson started towards them,
whereupon the bald-ups broke into a
run. The officers gave chase and fired
three shots ia the air. The men did
not stop, and the officers then fired at
the fugitives, who reached the boulder
Strewn bridge just northeast of the
hotel. and from behind the rocks
opened up on the officers, four pistols
working at once This lasted until
about twenty-five shots had been fired.
The officers returned to the hotel for
more ammunition, and telephoned for
reinforcemen1s. They spent the re-
mainder of the night trying TO keep
the fugitives cornered till daylight. In
some way the men got past the officers
into the foothills.
Captain Brown, Sheriff Carbon and
the deputy sheriff of Weber county, Joe
Belnap, were the only officers present at
the finale and the fatal meeting, as the
others were guarding other avenues of
escape.
\ Herald representative drove out to
Willard and received the following ac-
count OF the affair from Sheriff Carbon:
After the exchange of shots in the
night near Hot Springs, we followed
thei3. trail up the ridge and past the
foothills. Then we lost ii. Layne and
Bailey went down by the base of the
mountain east Of where we We're work
ing to guard that portion of the ground.
Thompson was away on a similar mis-
sion. We circled around away up on
the mountain near to where you see
that snow (pointing to distant white
line). Noticing that they had rot
crossed the snow, we started down the |
steep side of the raVine.
Beginning of Fight.
we were coming west down the /
slope. and the fellows were hiding I.
among the rocks and jumped up TO run. |
We chased them down a ways, but /
were intercepted by the face of a cliff /
almost perpendicular. We were delayed |
a little While getting over this
Brown forged ahead. l called to /
him to stop and not take unnecessary
risks. but he flew on and outran us. He |
was about twenty-five yards ahead of |
us when we saw the robbers again.
I'VE all fired about the same time
Brown, Belnap and myself One rob-
her dropped. The desperadoes were
shooting, too.
The fellow who is now alive shot
Brown. l saw him do it, and am Ger
tain of it. Brown dropped little after
the rGbber fell We all kept shooting al
the remaining fellow but he had taken
refuge behind a rock. and was shot at
He took a shot or .wo at us also We
made the chips fly from the rock, but
be was pretty well protected.
Surrender of Survivor.
Finally he threw up one hand. We
told him to come out. hands up. He
d:d SO, and l went down TO him lie
said: Never mind me; see TO my
brother there
I answered him pretty roughly and
put the handouts on him. After he
was disarmed l went to the other man.
and found he was dead. The fellow
told me their names were Morgan and
that they were brothers, having
mother IN Chicago. but that their faith
er was dead.
u do not know who killed the dead
bandit, as the three of us fired, all
within the same two seconds The
man Immediately reeled and feIl''
/.
Belnap was the man whose bullet
found its mark, as he was firing with
a Winchester and the other two used
-evolvers.
Brown was about fifty yards from
the desperadoes; Belnap and Carbon
about serenty-five yards distant. Bel
nap stated in Brigham City that he
probably killed the man, but at that ,
Tine the wound of the dead robber had .
not been examined by him.
AT Willard, when the coroner's Jury
examined the dead mans wound it
was found TO be a small round hole.
Shot In Shoulder
The ball had lodged in the right ]
shoulder near where il joins the back |
bone. 1t had not passed through the I
body. but lodged in front Of ,-east !
IN the center bone, almost b n The
nipples. was dark discoiora.lgn. evi-
iently a bruise from beneath A
small hard substance could be felt be- i
leath the skin, which is probably the I
'ullet. 1t was just beneath the skin, /