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Show ; J yK. FREDERIC C. HOWE, for-" for-" mer immigration conimisslon- er at the port of New York, in-' in-' j volved in sensational probe dls-i dls-i : closures. I ilEBOrll SCORES WYOMING W. M. Jeffers Denounces State Government for Carlisle Holdup. I Special to Tlie Tribune. CHEYEXNE. Wye, Nov! 16. "William M. Jeffers, vice president and general manager of the Union Pacific, at a Bo-tary Bo-tary club dinner here today denounced I the Wyoming: state government for the laxity at the state prison which permitted permit-ted William L. Carlisle, the train bandit, to escape, and for the fact that tlie state has offered only $00 reward for the re- i capture of the convict, despite the fact 1 that he has held up a-train since his j escape, "We spent 510,000 to put 'this .bandit in j the penitentiary and your officials now offer only 500 for hirs .recapture," said ! Jeffers. "Furthermore, an officer of this state has . made the statement that i0 per cent of the people of Wyoming are In sympathy with this train robber and want to see Lim get away. I want to Iiear definite reports on Carlisle. "From the coroner we know that after Carlisle escaped he wen; into an oil camp, laid his guns on the table, announced an-nounced he was Carlisle and intended to hold up So. and that after he had eaten with these Wyoming men he was carried in an automobile, driven by a brother of an officer in this state, to the railroad tracks near the scene of the robbery, put down there and wished good luck. "He made good his escape because he was given the aid and sympathy of a certain element in Wyoming. We have called off our forty special agents who , have been on the trail of Carlisle and ' his capture now rests solely -with the ! government of Wyoming." |