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Show RUMORS STILL RIFE CONCERNING LOPEZ By Staff Correspondent. BINGHAM, Dec. 8. The question of whether Lopez was able to get out of the mine, get to the home of Borne friend, change clothes and slip out of the mining camp without being apprehended, appre-hended, is Htil being discussed here. The belief that this might have happened has grown since O. E. Radlke, an employee of the Highland Boy mine, reported that1 ho had soon a man fitting tho description descrip-tion of Lopez skulking down tho road last Mondny night. lladtko said that ho was returning to his homo near the Highland Boy about midnight Monday whon ho saw a man walking down tho road. He said the description de-scription as to size fitted Lopez and that tho suspicious actions of tho man caused him to step closer to get a bottor look at the face that was hidden undor a cap and pulled down low over the eyes. He said tho man moved rapidly away. James Larson, an employee of the Apex, also reported seeing a man. whose description tallica with that of Lopez, at about the same hour. Larson said that when the man saw him ho slipped his hand Into his overcoat pockot und backed Into tho shadows of nearbv buildlnga. Both Radtko and Larson wero Interviewed Inter-viewed again by a Tribune roporter tonight to-night and both wero still firm in their belief that the man they both saw was Lopez. "I know Lopez very well," said Larson. Lar-son. ."I have leased In tho same part of the Apex that he worked and met him often. I am convinced, especially by developments, de-velopments, that tho .man I saw was Lopez. Lo-pez. Ho kept his hand In tho overcoat pocket und It bulgod out suspiciously. 1 think he had me covered with a gun. Being Be-ing unarmed. 1 was naturally afraid to make any approaches or ask tho man any questlona," |