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Death of Tom Lake
DETAILS ASSASSINATION TOM LAKE IN ARIZONA.W. R. LAKE OF BOISE GETS NEWS OF  THE   MURDER.   January 25 1906
Man by the Name of Ogden Is Said to, Have Committed the Deed with Colt's  Revolver.
    W. R. Lake, the Boise timberman who resides at 119 State street, yesterday received by mail the details of the assassination of his brother Tom Lake,  at  Kingman,  Ariz.,  on  January 15
    Another brother. Frank Lake, a mining man of Park City, Utah, went to Kingman last week to look into the matter. He found  that on the evening of January 15 Tom Lake, superintendent of a mine a short distance from Kingman, was driving into the city in company with a man by the name ot Holland. They were overtaken and passed by a rig driven by E. Ogden, who stopped his team a short distance ahead and dismounted.
    When Lake's team approached, Ogden called upon him to halt, and ordered Holland to get out of the wagon, as he intended to kill Lake. Holland refused to dismount, whereupon Ogden shot Lake twice with a Colt's revolver, both shots inflicting mortal wounds.
    Ogden was arrested and at the preliminary hearing before Probate Judge Brown at Kingman was bound over to the district court without bail to answer the charge of murder in the first degree.
    At the preliminary Osden put up no defense, and Lake's brother in Boise Is absolutely In the dark as to the causes which led up to the tragedy. He believes, however, that the murder was the result of labor troubles.     Tom Lake was formerly a. shift boss in one of Senator Clark's mines at Butte. He went to Kingman to take the superintendency of one of Clark's copper properties there. He was about 36 years old, and leaves considerable property.
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25 Jan1906 Kingman, AZ