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Show POSSE SEARCH MINE FOR EDITOR'S SLAYER Guards Are Placed About All Workings to Catch the Murderer. WALSBNBURG, Colo., Sept. 27. Robert Mitchell, Democratic county chairman and publisher of the Independent, Indepen-dent, a weekly newspaper, died today from wounds received last night. The shooting occurred when Mitchell and his wife returned home and surprised men who were ransacking the house. Bloodhounds traced Mitchell's assailants assail-ants to the abandoned workings of the Walsen mine. A posse of fifty men under Sheriff Jefferson Farr are searching search-ing the mine. Mitchell died on the train on which he was being taken to a Pueblo hospital. Expecting a battle at every turn, the sheriff's posse this afternoon was crowding crowd-ing the search through the thousand yards of workings with renewed vigor. Officials state that the Walsen workings work-ings are connected with the Robinson. McNally and Cameron mines and that a man familiar with the labyrinth of drifts and crosscuts might successfully elude pursuers for days. A guard has been placed at the entrances en-trances of all mines connected with the Walsen workings. |