Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1939 — Page 6

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POSSE SEEKING KIELER OF FOUR Wyoming .Man Sought By Man-Hunters After Killing Spree pnw*a. Wyo. March IS.—(UJb— Manbuntrr* awarmM into th* Hrnrtooih high country at dawn today to ratrlavw th* U«dl«*« of two of their comnaiitona and to track down Earl Durand. who ha* killed four m>-n ain<» he wwaprd from Jail a week ago. tn a brief ban la laat night. Dnrand added the two lataat victim* to hit Hat of murdara and drove the raat of the po«*e to cover. Then he went back into the mountains, where he aubaiata on raw meat. He left a note to hit purauera defying them io catch him and augmenting ttut it they did >O. they mount hla head and hang it from the Park county courthouse.! The poauemen advanced today under cover of crags and underbruah, through a huge crater-like < reaae in the mountain, as if they hunted a wild beaat. They had orders to shoot Durand on sight, as they would a beaat. AU night, the bodies of O. H. Unabary and Arthur Argento Uy in the snow where they felt. Sheriff"" deputies kept their men under cover until dawn, refusing to expose them to Durand a deadly Are. Every man In the posse, which set out from Powell a week ago when Durand killed a deputy sheriff and a town marshal while escaping Jail, believed they were confronted by a mad man. Sheriff Frank BUckburn. direct-

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Ing the hunt through a virtually i uncharted region of the Reartooth range. 40 miles northwest, report-j| Jed by portable abort-wave radio|i that the fugitive had written a■: | letter bearing thia return oddreaa: "Earl Durand, undertaker's office. Ihiwcll. Wyo,“ The letter, sent through the mall and relayed to Blackburn by courd ler. said: • When yon get after me you better lake about 2n men for your I bodyguard and put braces on their I knees, of count*. I know I'm done I for and when yon kill me I aug-ij test you have my head mounted I and hang it up In the courthouse I for the sake of law and order. I Tell the two game wardens II | (Dwight King and Teg Kennedy) I who arrested me for poaching to I always carry a pistol. If I ever II m««et them I will give them al • hance for an even draw- some- I thftig I won't give you. I "Your beloved enemy. Earl Dur- I and." | He was heavily armed and had > several hundred rounds of riffe I ammunition. It was known that I he had two long range hunting I KUtft. one with which be shot and I killed t'ndrrsberiff D. W. Baker I and town marshal Charles la>wt» I jlhst Friday during bls Jail break, I the other seised from a ranchman I while in flight. I Ihirand ha* be. n a legendary I character in the mountains. Only I J<- he has lived like a hermit. I subsisting ou raw meat of elk and I deer brought down either by rifle I or bow and arrow. On his Infre- I quent trips to town* he often ap- I peered shaggy, bearded, and with I the carcass of an animal slung I over his powerful shoulders. Moun- I tain folk call him variously "Tar- I ran of the Teton*." and "the lone I wolf." I Yesterday Durand apparently I sensed that the posse was closing I In on him. He forced hla way in- I to the cabin of Art Thornburg. I roused him and his wife and fore- I ed them to drive him into the al- I most Impenetrable area near the I headwater* of Little Rock creek. I high in the mountains. Then he I released them and Thornburg hast- I ened to a ranch and telephoned I ihe alarm here. I Sheriff Blackbum, who I* in con- I jatant communication with his I Powell base called for blood- I hounds. The dogs, dire ted to the I fugitive's trail by the farmer, took I up the scent. At dusk. Ltnabary I and Argento scouting several huu- I dred yards ahead of the main I party, suddenly opened Are A I rifle from the woods ahead of them I spot twice. They fell. Members I of the main posse, including for- I est rangers, state police and moun- I taineara, were ordered to cover. I — -o — I PETERSON NEWS * Mis* Marjorie Dilling of Decatur I had dinner with .Mr and Mrs. Frank J Spade, Tuesday evening. I Mr. and Mr*. R. M Houck spent I last week-end in Muncie with Miss I > Jean Houck and Mr. and Mr* Chas. I ! Houck. I Homer Ginter and family, Mr JI and Mr*. John Arnold and sons. I l c.nd Rev. Flesher and son were I guests of Mr. and Mr*. George*] ; Bright Tuesday evening. I Delbert Flesher spent lari week I in Peterson with Mr. sud Mrs I I EIHs Skiles and family and Mr. and I I Mrs. George Bright. I Mrs. Dori* Grossnun of Plymouth I ; called on Mr*. W. B. We’dy last I I week. I Goose Nears 25th Birthday Visalia. Cal. —(PPi-Joe Faria believe* be has the oldest living I goose In the Vnited States. It will 1 celebrate Us 35th hatching-day this

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