The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-20
BURGLAR SHOT
AND MAY DIE
William Ross Saeaks Into Chain Gang
in Effort 70 Escape.
BULLET LAYS HIM LOW
OFFICER j. o. BROWN FIRES THE
PROBABLY FATAL SHOT.

William Ross, colored, captured Mon
day morning and held on five counts
~ burglary, cUnningly worked his way
INTO the chain gang ana, while going
Up the canyon about $3.50 O'Clock yes
terday morning. jumped off the wagon
lu an attempt 10 escape. Before he had
iun half ii block Police Officer John
ID. Brown shot him down. The bull
le- shattered his hip bone and en-
tered his body. II is believed he Will
die
Ross had planned his escape and
some OF the other prisoners evidently
were his accomplices The city Jail is
overcrowded and Ross was confined in
the same tier OF cells with other pris-
oners. When the gang was taken out
yesterday morning by Police Officers
Brown and William Carey, two OF the
prisoners attracted JailOr GrOmway
Parry's attention and Ross slipped out
of the corridor. Ross had exchanged
clothes with another prisoner and in
stead Of wearing a stiff hat had Sc
cured a black SLOUGH hat from one
eff the other men. lie hurried through
the main corridor and got to the en-
trance of the Jail without being no
Iiced. There were thirty-One men
counted by Officer Brown to be taken
out 10 the rock pile. Ross, however,
did not escape notice.
Deeeives the Officer.
Say, you're a new one" officer
Brown said to Ross as he counted him
among the gang.
Yes / got twenty days" was Ross
reply, as Officer Carey told him TO
climb up in the wagon.
When the wagon reached q point
.FvaI
leaped off and dashed up the street
The wagon was brought to a sudden
stop and Officer Brown started after
him
He's that burglar" one of the pris-
oners yelled 10 Officer Brown.
Brown Fires Four Shots.
The chase started in earnest and
Brown called for Ross TO stop, but
the latter darted up through George
d. Pyper's lot Again Omcer Brown
called 10 him TO halt and fired shot
over his head. Ross increased his
speed and jumped a fence. Another
shot from Officer Browns gun kicked
"a the dirt close to Ross heels.
Ross disappeared behind the resi-
dence of Colonel y. G. Weber Officer
Brown attempted TO head him off, and
when he caught sight Of Ross again
1lred close 10 his feet. This did not
stop him, and Officer Brown threw his
revolver down on his ARM took de
iberate aim, and fired The bullet hit
its mark and Ross dropped 10 the
ground. He was over seventy-tive
yards away when he was shot down.
Little Hope of Recovery.
officer Brown ran back to the wagon
and told officer Carey he had shot
Ross and then went 10 a telephone
and called up police headquarters The
patrol wagon was dispatched to the
scene and Ross was taken TO the
emergency hospital at the city Jail.
city Physician Charles =. Wilcox was
summoned and, after examining the
wound, had Ross taken 10 the L. D.
\ hospital II is probable that his
hip will have 10 be amputated. The
bullet has not been located 50 far and
there is little hope for his recovery.
Ross was TO have been arraisned
yesterday morning before Judge g. b.
Diehl on five counts of burglary. He
Jumped through q window 10 escape
when discovered in Hubert Bros.
trunk factory, 233 South Main street,
Sunday morning by Night Waterman
A. +. White. Later he was arrested
on the Oregon Short Line train by
Sergeant r. L. EddingtOn and Police
Officers James Taylor and Charles
Sperry. He had i'm his possession about
$500 worth of property he had stolen
IRON five different places.