On April 15th, 1922, Deputy Gordon Stuart and his partner travelled
to the south end of the Valley intending to serve civil papers on a farmer
and confiscate the farmer's livestock. The farmer mistakenly thought
the lawmen had come to arrest him because of a complaint with the Juvenile
Court by the fourteen-year-old daughter of the farmer. As the deputies
entered the farmhouse, the farmer produce a shotgun and fired twice at
the officers. Both shotgun blasts struck Deputy Stuart. Although
gravely wounded, he pushed his partner out of the door to safety.
Once outside, Deputy Stuart succumbed to his wounds. Arrested and tried
for homicide, the farmer was executed at the Utah State Prison for the
killing of Deputy Gordon Stuart.
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