Show REAL WilD IN OLD WYOMING Man Mortally Wounded While Interfering With Execution Woman Special to The Herald Cheyenne Wyo May 1 Because Chris did not consider it the right of or Harry Curtis to execute Mrs Curtis for alleged favors bestowed on he will die He Interfered in inthe inthe inthe the impending execution and received two bullets Intended for Mrs Irs Curtis I Falling he fired twice at Curtis but misled ed both times The shooting oc cc occurred occurred at Sunrise a C F P tt I mining camp miles north of Cheyenne and the Greek population numbering soy sev several eral era hundred is greatly excited over the affair All AH the principals are Greeks and their countrymen have formed into factions that threaten further trouble So serious were threats made Mrs Curtis today and against her be befriend friend Martha Nelson Kelson that it was wu thought though advisable to take them out of Sunrise and they arrived in Cheyenne tonight Curtis is in the county jail here and is dying at Sunrise The shooting occurred when Curtis Curti who is a bartender suspected that Mrs Curtis lurtIs and a laborer were unduly familiar He procured a gun and undertook to kill his wife But Ar i rushed between them and took I two bullets intended for the woman He Hethe then thai the fired in unavailing however A bullet took tok him hint in each shoulder and penetrated to 10 the groin grot the paths of or the two missiles crossing ero In in his abdominal cavity Curtis made no effort to escape and was arrested by b a Sunrise deputy sher ber sheriff iff ItY and was held until the arrival of Deputy Sheriff Ed Schoel from Chey Cheyenne Cheyanne enne anne Schoel immediately brought him to Cheyenne as feeling was running high in Sunrise among the friends of One ORe of or the bullets was extracted from body but the other is so IO deeply lodged that an operation for its Ills removal would hasten death which Is believed to be inevitable Pending the outcome of his victims wounds no in information information information formation will be filed tiled against Curtis is said not to be the only man suspected by b Curtis and other en enemies enemies enemies of the prisoner are ore reported to be fomenting trouble at Sunrise |