Show KARL BOECKEL DENIES HE WAS V AS SHOT AND THEN DROWNED IN GRAND RIVER Karl Boeckel who lives at 47 Ii East First South street denies with apparently good grounds that he ile was drowned in the Grand river at Glenwood Springs las i week after having havin been shot and I Ib by b the police of oC that city I IThe The body bod of a aman man which was as that of oC Boeckel Bo ckel was discovered d four tour I miles east ast of Rifle Colo Cob a it week ago by bya a boy bo fishing In the lie Grand river Several II people who knew Boeckel in Grand Junc Jun Junction Junction tion when he lie worked there identified the remains as those of the man manThe manThe manThe The identification was accepted by tho tue police and the authorities as correct The first information that Boeckel had that the lie body bod was believed to be his was con contained contained tamed in a clipping from a Denver paper sent him by a n friend The clipping con contained contained tamed this paragraph Positive Identification of the body bod was made bv by b two residents of oC Rifle who formerly former worked with Boeckel Bo ckel In Grand Junction They TIle easily recalled the scar on the head made by b a blow Boeckel had received rec d from a shovel while in Grand Junction and also by b a scar on the left knee caused bv by b the kick of a horse there The rh peculiar part of oC the coincidence is that Boeckel did work at Grand Junction I and stilt still bears two such scars as those by b l the lie body bod at Rifle Hine was identified These scars sears wre received in the manner described by b tin tIme men who identified the body bod Still Boeckel is sure sur that he lie is not I dead de ad and that he was not drowned in the th Grand river whatever the fate of his counterpart may ma have been According to the same clipping the theman th theman man whose body bod found held up two tramps at Glenwood Springs on the night of or April 24 21 4 and later in an attempt to io escape attempted to shoot Fred Kinney Kinn Kinna a resident of that city Some time after afterwards wards warl in a 3 revolver duel with the police he h was as shot in the lie leg Ur lie then leaped into the Grand river and attempted to swim down stream The wound In his leg how however however however ever was of mch a nature that he was unable to swim He was soon carried under by b the current and drowned During the time which embraces the adventurous episodes of his double Boeckel was quietly working in the Gar Garfield GarfI Garfield field fI ld smelters smelt rs A few fw days das ago alO he received ed his obituary notice which he lie wishes to deny as well as the account of the crimes attributed to him through the resemblance of oC the reckless highwayman to the smelter |