Alex Langton was murdered on Sept 12, 1890 by W.J. Moss, an engineer at the Ontario Mine. Moss shot Langton after an argument in Moxby and Nichol's Capital Saloon. Alex Langton had been a private investigator for an eastern agency (probably Pinkerton), while living in Colorado before moving to Park City. He had told his friends that he had seen several men whom he had previouly investigated. Alex feared that they were planning to get even with him for the role he played in the prosecution of one of their partners in Colorado. So, when he was murdered, authorities believed that Moss was carrying out a vendetta against Langton. W.J. Moss was taken to Salt Lake and tried for murder, most likely facing a firing squad.
Alex Langton was unmarried and 40 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and is listed in the Glenwood records; however, his headstone is amoung the many missing. A new headstone was made by Park City.
From Stories in Stone: Park City, Utah by Colleen Adair Fliedner.
Alex Langton was unmarried and 40 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and is listed in the Glenwood records; however, his headstone is amoung the many missing. A new headstone was made by Park City.
From Stories in Stone: Park City, Utah by Colleen Adair Fliedner.
Alex Langton was murdered on Sept 12, 1890 by W.J. Moss, an engineer at the Ontario Mine. Moss shot Langton after an argument in Moxby and Nichol's Capital Saloon. Alex Langton had been a private investigator for an eastern agency (probably Pinkerton), while living in Colorado before moving to Park City. He had told his friends that he had seen several men whom he had previouly investigated. Alex feared that they were planning to get even with him for the role he played in the prosecution of one of their partners in Colorado. So, when he was murdered, authorities believed that Moss was carrying out a vendetta against Langton. W.J. Moss was taken to Salt Lake and tried for murder, most likely facing a firing squad.
Alex Langton was unmarried and 40 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and is listed in the Glenwood records; however, his headstone is amoung the many missing. A new headstone was made by Park City.
From Stories in Stone: Park City, Utah by Colleen Adair Fliedner.
Alex Langton was unmarried and 40 years old at the time of his death. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and is listed in the Glenwood records; however, his headstone is amoung the many missing. A new headstone was made by Park City.
From Stories in Stone: Park City, Utah by Colleen Adair Fliedner.
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