Salt Lake Telegram | 1910-12-16 | Page 2 | When Cornered Robber Shoots Self

t WHEN CORNERED ROBBER SnOOTS SHOOTS SElF SALINA Kan Dec 16 Earl Earl Ward 30 years ears old who it is said yesterday robbed the State tate State bank of Paradise at Paradise Kai Kaiv securing 2500 killed himself when surrounded by a posse of farmers fourteen miles north of that place Wards Ward's suicide came as a climax to one cue of the most sensational robberies in the he central western states in in recent years ears He had bad made a hard pard race for liberty but as farmers had bad been notified notified noti noti- fied by telephone the posse easily picked up his trail For five hours he be succeeded in eluding eluding elud elud- in ing his pursuers but about sundown he was surrounded fourteen miles north of Paradise At first he be seemed to be seeking a route to liberty through b the lines Jines of the determined farmers but failing in this he turned the gun he had bad bought earlier in the tho day upon himself himself him him- self and sent a bullet into his bis brain When the members of the posse reached his bis side they found 2500 which Ward had stolen from the bank The bank officials say all of the stolen money was recovered