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Cheyenne, Wyo.,
June 6. – Sheriff Hazen of Converse county and posses in pursuit
of the Union Pacific train robbers, had another fight with the
bandits yesterday evening, news of which has just been brought here.
The robbers were surrounded in a gulch when they were forced to
abandon their horses which were captured. They hid behind rocks and
made a desperate fight. Sheriff Hazen was shot through the body and
dangerously wounded. He is being brought into Casper. Reinforcements
for the posse are going out from Casper as fast as the men can be
mounted and armed. The entire country is aroused and the prospects
are good not only for the capture of the train robbers but the
entire band of outlaws which have infested the Hole-in-the-Wall
country.
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Price, Utah, June 6. –
It is the opinion of many persons here that the three men being
hunted by deputies for the robbery of the Union Pacific train at
Colfax, Wyoming, Friday morning, are “Butch” Cassidy, Elza Lay
and “Old Tom” McCarty, leaders of the “Robbers’ Roost”
gang of outlaws. They were seen in the vicinity of the hold-up a few
days before it occurred and were suspected of having plans for a
raid of some kind. Sheriff Allred, of this county, who has been
instrumental in bringing several of the gang to justice, was so firm
in his belief that the holding up of a Rio Grande Western train was
in contemplation, that he notified the railroad authorities of his
suspicions. The stopping of the Union Pacific flyer and the robbing
of the safe is believed to have been decided on instead for the
reason that the “Robbers’ Roost” country has been lately
filling up with prospectors, incident to the copper excitement,
making it difficult for the gang to operate successfully there. |
