| Show FAMOUS I UTAH W E Elza Iza Lay Partner of Butch Cassidy Killed In a Battle With Mexican Mexican S can Officers Offic Six Other Men n Killed Cas Cassidy sidy idy l According to reliable Information re received elved c by Joe Bush of or this city Elza Lay L ay the partner and fighting com corn companion panion p anion of Butch Casal y and one of o f the most notorious outlaws of or the Robbers R Roost gang was vrr killed about a month ago in a bloody blood battle with Mexican M officers near Patro Macros Ma ros roson on o n the border During the he t desperate fight seven men mer me It Is isaid said aid s were killed Lay two of ot his gang I I 1 I j v vrr rr f ELZA LAY and four Mexican officers Deputy Bush said that his information as to the death of Lay came from a man lately l returned from Mexico who has bas kept in close touch with the doings of the Robbers Roosters Roosted and he h knows t to be reliable According to the information re cc received by Bush Lay and ad a gan gang r of or three men established a rendezvous near Patro Magros on the Rio JIb Grande tad nd were engaged in smuggling across e a Texas border line Into Texas Butch Cassidy himself t Is said was wasat Wasat t tat at the head of or another gang that was t stationed at another point along the Rio Grande The Mexican officers learned of or the t presence of or Lay and his gang garig In hi the t vicinity of Patro Magros and a r osse Dosse posse of officers was sent to o make a at raid upon their rendezvous When the out laws and officers met a long and bloody fight ensued and when hen it was over Lay and two of at his men were dead their bodies pierced by Mexican bullets and four tour Mexican officers lay upon the field the victims of or the marksmanship or of the outlaws The third member of or the gang made his escape during the fight With the extermination of ot Lay and his gang sang the borderland became came too warm for Cassidy and he returned It Is claimed to his old haunts in the V ll Bushs In told lm that Cas was seen at Pete Francis ranch Just four tour days das before Francis was killed but he is believed to be in Wyoming now no Killed X led Several zen Men With the death of Lay at at the hands of or the Mexican officers ended the career of or an whose name in the southern part of or Utah struck al most as much terror to the heart of or the citizens as does that of ot Butch Cassidy According to the statement of o Bush Cassidy and Lay La have for tor years past been bosom com corn and seldom has one under taken a piece pece of dark work that the Other was waR not at his side The killing killin of ot a number of or men has been charged against ag Lay and he had a long record of or bloody deeds Lay was born and raised in the southern part of ot Utah and when but a young yo ng man was engaged In cattle rustling A number of ot years ago he joined the Robbers Roosters and soon won for himself the position of or part ner and bosom companion of or the no leader of or the gang He Is be to have been with Cassidy in the Castle Gate holdup and In the Reno Rena eno Nev Ne bank robbery It was after this that he went ent to Texas While a member of the Robbers Roosters Lay married a Miss Maude Davis of or Uintah county and a boy was Wa born to them while they the lived Jived in the country countr but the young woman took her child and left leet Lay Where they are arc now is not known Lay was about 36 years old at the time of or his death The news of or his death will be a great relief to the tho UI loving citizens of or the regions he used to haunt and to the officers of o the law who have sought so hard to capture him There was a price of or on Lays La s head offered by the governor govern r of or Utah |
