People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — BRAVE OFFICER KILLED. [ARTICLE]

BRAVE OFFICER KILLED.

Desperadoes Ambush and Shoot a Noted Police Officer. Spokane, Wash., June 26.—Lew A. Conlee, a deputy sheriff of Lincoln county, was found dead near the railroad tracks near Ritzville yesterday. Blood flowed from seven bullet wounds inflicted upon his head and body. Conlee was secretary of the Stock Growers’ Protective association of that county, and for years has been a terror to cattle rustlers. He started out alone Monday with a warrant for the arrest of A. Simes, a desperate character, known as “Jesse James,” and it is presumed that as he was taking his prisoner to the county jail he was ambushed and murdered by some of Simes’ friends. Conlee was noted throughout.the Pacific coast for his bravery as an officer, and fully 500 citizens of Lilian and adjoining counties are scouring the country for his murderers.