Show A BLOOD I 1 aa V JV JL nam between robbers U IL 8 marshals Marsh alst A OFTEN OF TEN MONTHS one oi of the bandies bandi q mortally wounded the te other escapes a VISALIA cal june jun 12 Z atter alter a search extending cvar ten tea months montha and after six six encounters with di different lleren t legal DOSS on the notorious train robbers john i olin boltax and christopher evans finally last night met four deputy united states marshals and as aa a result of the encounter which followed sontag was wounded possibly fatally andis and is now in custody having been brought here at 1030 this forenoon his companion chris evans esca escaped pact after firing forty shots at his pursuers where he made uia ids stand last night he left a hat aud and two empty L luns guns uns and the ground was found covered with blood this morning an indication that he too was wounded and being without guns or ammunition it is thought he too will vill be captured the officers have boon in tho the moun bains for a wee week ir looking for the robbers and sunday sanday afternoon encamped campel encamp en ej elt at a vacant house eighteen eich teen miles northeast of tb B city about 20 minutes before two men man were seen coming down the hill toward the place and on closer observation it was discovered that the uen men were no other than evans evana and sontag the fugitive fugi tave desperadoes marshals and deputies grabbed their enns and prova ared red to make fight the ofa cers cera went out the fronts front door of the house and as aa they went around the back corner evans saw them and took deliberate aim and fired just then deputy jackson opened fire on the bandits find and sontag was seen to throw up both hands and fall back i wa wards ads and then the firing aring became general and evans erans returned the shots with a vengence evans got behind an old rubbish pile out ol of eight but kept up a terrible raking fuei lade jackson was aschot shot inthe in the leftreg left lee between the knee and ankle about forty shots were exchanged between the officers and bandits and darkness ended the battle evana Evans was seen been to crawl from behind a rubbish pile and ran towards toward s the hills followed fol owed by a deputy who continued firing evans did not return the fire and in ia a low few minutes was waa out of sight eight deputy returned n ed to the house bouse and procuring a waon waon placed jackon jack on 7 in it aud and came to this thia city noon boon after midnight marshal gard and burns barns remained at the scene until this thia morning sontag liy lay behind a small stack of hav all night evans evana tracks show that he started towards Vi aalia salis and his home will be watched day and night souta dontae 9 talks freely lie he says the jig is up and he does not care for th the e future its it is possible that he may recover from his wound the train robbery which was the tha be inning ginning of this criminal chapter occurred at collis near fresno on aug 5 1892 an express car was blown up with dynamite ane express messenger george D roberts seriously injured sontag talked freely to the officers he said he and evans had not had a cent cant of money for a anth but did not intend to bold up a train they would have left the mountains only thoy they had no money or clothes when I 1 was shot last night he said ill 1 I asked chris to shoot me bat he would not we had two winchesters Win chesters two shotguns shot guns rud ud two six shooters chris carried away the winchester WIL Wit cheater chester and had bad plenty of ammunition |