OCR Text |
Show NO PLANS MADE FOR Sheriff Smith Refuses to Permit Men, Who Seek to Win $1000 Reward Offered by Governor Spry Yesterday, to Enter En-ter the Mine; Fears Another Shooting." MAY RESORT TO STARVING LOPEZ Julius Corrello Receives Letter From Salt Lake, Purporting to Have Been Written by Bandit, Ban-dit, but Discrepancies Cause Investigators to Believe It a Forgery. By Staff Correspondent. BINGHAM", Doc. 9. Several conferences confer-ences wero hold yesterday between Sheriff Androw Smith, Jr., and others interested in the capture of Lopes, but no satisfactory plan of action could be agreed upon. Following the announcement announce-ment of a $1000 roward by Governor Spry, about twenty volunteers appeared ap-peared at tho Andy tunnel lato thi3 afternoon and expressed a desire to go in and hunt for Lopez. Sheriff Smith refused to permit any of them to enter. He said ho belioved it would be suicidal and that he could not give his permission. Tho volunteers, volun-teers, a number of whom wero miners, wero considerably perturbed by tho do cision of the sheriff, declaring that they could not seo the use in tho stato offering a reward if no oue was to be permitted to try and win it. i Bulkhending was the only work done around tho mine yesterday. A bulk- 4 head has been put in just boyond the hoist in the Andy tunnel and another just beyond the Andy incline in the Minnie tunnol. Another bulkhead has been placed in the passageway connecting con-necting the Minnie and Pedro tunnels. There is a cave-in at the back of the I Parnell and although Lopez can get in at the back of the Parnell a Ehorfc distance, dis-tance, the hole runs to a blind which he cannot pass. ! I Guards Stationed. K I As minors are working on the Andy K I level, that tunnel has not been bulk- m I headed. Guards are stationed at the It I mouth of tho incline, however, thus If I cutting off that avonue to the fugitive, l I who is still believed to be above tho If H Andy level. Lopez is now restricted to If H about live miles of tunnel and stopes, It if the story of tho Greek minor, Karo?, I concerning his whereabouts is true. All Ic H believe that the Grcok is telling- tho IC H truth. If I Julius Corrello, former partner of It H Lopez, received a lotter through the Ijj H mails this afternoon which was signed Ijj H by "ftaphaol Lopoz." It was poBt- K H marked Salt Lako. The Iettor is he l H lieved to be either a hoax or an at- l H tompt by somo friend of the Mexican Ijj H to draw the hunters away from the lj. H Apex mine if possible in order to givo l H the desperado a chance to escape. I; H Signatures of Lopez on file at ihe !' H Highland Boy mine also indicate that lj H the signature to the letter 1b a forgery. Ij H Lopez invariably signed his first name l H aB "Kalph" instead of ' 'Raphael." Ho IE H also spelled his name "Lopez," while III that on tho letter is spelled "Lopes." Ill A number of the words are misspelled in If tho lcttor also. On the whole little ia IS H thought of tho loiter. It is believed to If be a crude forgery. ll.l A free translation of the letter is as ll follows: Ijj Friend Julius: I don't see why 12 H you, who nre such a friend, would l "do as you did. ewear that if 1 3 somo time we shall see each other, lb we will arrange our accounts. Ml I am in Salt Lake. 1 have not II left because my feet arc not yet l well. I am in tho homo of one I, who, 1 am cortain, is my "friend. I Ijj told you at the ranch that you lj should say nothing, but you and In the Italian made known my where- Ijj ubouts. I 'I 1 suffered much, but I am eating I it well and drinking hot coffee. I n lolled two more, and if you are I (Continued, a P&ga Two.) I i H I Bfl i PLANS ARE MADE J0C0IT1IEW (Continued from Pago Ono.) there it is through no fault of mine. If I Ret a chanco I mil kill 6ii more. Your friend, EAPAEL LOPES. Thinks Letter Genuine. J. F. Espinoza, Spanish interpreter for the Utah Copper company, who examined ex-amined the lottor last night, is inclined to believo that tho letter is genuine. Ho bcliovos that the -writer was very nervous and that the letter was written in great haste. It was dated in tho Salt Lake postofflco at 11 p. m. Monday night. Espinoza boliovoB that tho roferenco to the "ranch" moans tho cabin of Stofano, where Lopoz stopped before cntorlng tho mine. "You aro there" is taken as a roferenco to tho call that Julius Corrello made in the mino shortly after the Bhooting of Hulsoy and Manderich. At that time Corrello, trying to talk to Lopoz in the Andy incline, in-cline, told him that he (Corrollo), was being held by tho police because of Lopez's Lo-pez's wron-doing. The letter was writton on a: torn envelope. Tho letter waB started on tho inside of tho envelope, finished and signed on the back and tho last para-grapu, para-grapu, ovidently an afterthought, was writton on the inner side of the front sheet of btio envelope. Pounding Heard. G. W. Hulsoy, brother of Douglas Hulsoy, one of tho victims of Lopoz, reported late this afternoon that he had heard pounding on the Minnie tunnel bulkhead, which is back about 900 foot from tho portal, Hulsoy is ono of the guards at this bulkhead. It is believed that Lopoz might havo beon attempting to dislodge a timbor that was placod crosswise on tho inner side. It is said that by dislodging this timbor those lengthwise to tho tunnel might bo somo-what somo-what loosened. Despito the boliof that Lopez is in the uppor part of tho Apex property no chances aro being taken on tho lower lovols. Guarda havo been on watch at the lower tunnels constantly, and will bo' kept there until the hunt is over. It is possiblo that a plan of starvation starva-tion may bo carriod out Sheriff Smith ia set against anyone entering the mino to search for Lopez, and for this reason an attempt may bo made to starve tho Moxican. From the description descrip-tion of his condition given yesterday by Karos it is bclievea that 'Lopoz is in bucIi a bad physical condition that he will not be able to hold out long without nourishment. Tho minora working work-ing on tho Andy level aro carefully scrutinized before going into the mino, and after going out and are not al- . lowed to tako a tnorael of food in with them. Each ore car is carefully examined ex-amined by tho guards, also, |