Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-18 | Page 7 | Officers Seek Man Carried off by Rum Runners

OFFICERS SEEK MAN CARRIED Off Dr HUM WINK VINK Tex Dec J JS iS 8 AP Texas AP-Texas Texa ran rangers and border patrolmen patrolmen headed head head- ed cd a a. p party ot or men today in a search over oyer the barren Trans Pecos oh oil Country for P. P O. O Denver I Burcham local restaurant o owns reported to have havo been en kidnapped kid kid- n napped ped and left to die the by ruin rum run run- p er i B But c tam am has been missing since sine A youth known only a ss qs 1 Blue Bue Punk told tho the author author- I. I tie itle the tte t c alleged kidnapping was In i revenue o for tho the hijacking of or a cargo of ot liquor the rum runner runners run run- ner ners bolding the restaurant man re re- re r Tha TIlo searching party parly yesterday lo ho- ho a a I. I water vatel trough In the near nea L ert where according to the tale Burcham was bound lr ft to dl die There was evidence that fio ho o had bad broken his bindings o of c jipp and wire BROUGHT BROUGHT FROM MEXICO q A The Blu Blue Punk told officers that the Iho act was In revenge for the hi hij hl- hl j jacking of a half million dollar cargo o of liquor last Friday for which the leader Jeader of a a. whisky running gang held Burcham responsible He lIe said sale the runners runners had brought the liquor In Jn from tram Mexico crossing the Rio Grande near El EI Paso and headed lor Sor the Winkler county oil all fields with prospects of ot read ready sale to the oil aU field workers Before reaching the destination the caravan arav n was halted halte-d by hijackers hijack hijack- ers who ho took the tho liquor and cars carstIn tIn 1 t turned tho the first owners loose It 4 afoot to to make their way to I tion S l f R w Tim Tho WInkler fields are are- located In the Trans-Pecos Trans region of at far farS S vester western 1 Texas about miles due east of otEl El Paso The region loll which comprises nine counties and an area as ns large as West Nest Virginia Is one of the last frontiers of range cattle and following discovery of oil all about two ago is an oIL x IL frontier with iY uttered an and near-Isolated near wild and P tIly boom to s Railroad lines af far apart and transportation Is Isby by Airplane and motor car RANGERS SEEK MEN L Lawlessness ss in the border a area of ot great distances and Inaccessible mountain hiding places Is Ig i combat- combat ted by rangers langers and Rio Hlo Grande border border bor bor- der patrolmen whose names read Ilk those of dime dhue novel characters and whose re reputations for fearless fearless- fearlessness mess ness and results are known for fOl hun bun hundreds s o of miles Participating In the present search fearell are aro rangers led by Toughie Ib Northcutt and Captain R Rattlesnake Willie Wright Patrolmen Patrolmen Pa Pa- Wart Warden en Tombstones Tombstone Smith and Del Rio Earl Young Sheriffs l Pecos Bill Bm Priest Chihuahua Tom Henderson Winkler Walt Valt W Wood od an and Judge I L. L C. C 1 Nicknames of the law enforcement officers usually applied be because ause of some well known char- char aste or incident ar are so com commonly com com- commonly ly used that residents hardly r remember member original given names