People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Railroad Detective Killed. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Detective Killed.

Telluride, Colo., Aug. B.—James Clark, aged 54, an employe in the detective service of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad; ex-town marshal and exdeputy sheriff, was murdered while walking down the street In company with “Mexican Sam" early yesterday. The assassin was hidden in an aperture between buildings, and when Clark was fifty feet distant he jumped on the sidewalk with a Winchester and fired. The assassin escaped.