Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-10 | Page 30 | Mine Trapped Bandits Dead, Officer Says

MINE TRAPPED BANDITS DEAD OffiCER SAYS Exploration of Palisade 1 t Mine Fails to Reveal Any Trace of the Robbers Who Fled to W Workings PALISADE Colo Aug 9 Tiro 9 Til three fugitive Palisade postoffice robbery suspects who have ave been the object of a n. siege of f the Palisade Palisade Pali Pall sade side mine for one week are arc be- be lived to to be dead This was the the- announcement made this afternoon by Martin Wenger postoffice inspector In- In n- n on duty at the mine mind with I Sheriff Jeff Watson and members I of ot a n. sheriffs sheriff's posse An exploration of the mine to today today today to- to day failed to reveal any tr trace ce of the fugitives at any place within th the mine The last trace way was val OD- OD tamed late yesterday y when art arI ad exploring exploring ex exploring ex- ex party reported finding footprints foot foot- t ot- ot prints within feet of ot a section a-section of the mine known mown to be filled tilled with the d deadly adly black damp At that time the footprints showed that a man and a woman roman had been traveling together within the mine the prints showing that apparently they were nearly exhausted I Members rs of the posse yesterday stretched lines JInes of ot thread across the various passages of the mine in an effort to determine If the fugitives made any movements during the night but an investigation today I revealed that none had been broken I It If no further trace of the trio Is Is- found found- today members of the I posse wearing gas helmets will enter enter en ter the section of the mine filled tilled with the gas of there finding findIng find find- Ing the bodies of ot at least two of the fugitives Although no 1110 announcement announcement announcement an an- an- an I of the Identification of ot the fugitives h has ha's s been made by the postoffice Inspectors they have de decIa declared de- de I cIa dared red they knew the parties within with with- within in the mine and have also declared that they knew they would rather perish within the mine than surrender surrender sur sur- render render- to the authorities One Ono of of the suspected Is said to have been empl employed at various vanous times in the mine mime and Is said to have known of the presence of ot the gas pocketed section of the workings I I