Show WITNESS TELLS HOW flOW BICKER RICKER WAS SLAIN Wyoming Sheriff Said to to Have Been Beaten to Death While Wound Wounded ed and Helpless CASPER Wyo Feb 15 Wilson Wilson Owens arrived night before last from Billings Mont Mort to testify In the Woodward case Owens says Woodward told him how he murdered Sheriff Ricker Woodward went to the barn to to get a horse to ride o out t of the country lie He did not know the Sheriff was anywhere near there He saw a number of or horses In the b barn un and lit It a match to pick out lout the best one and leave The barking or of a dog attracted the attention of ot the Sheriff who started for tor forthe forthe the barn from the house Woodward saw the officer coming out of ot the house and waited until he got within ten feet of the barn door and then took deliberate aim and tired fired The SherIf Sheriff Sher Sher- If iff fell to the ground at the first shot After Arter lying there about two minutes th the Sheriff called for tor help and Woodward came from the barn and dragged the dying man over a little hill hili where the deputies dep dep- uil titles s from the house could not fire upon him The Sheriff was yet alive and attempted at at- tempted to call the men at the house to CoIns f a and help him Woodward o then struck k ka kl him l In the face e a and head with the h butt end of or his revolver beating his brains out After killing the officer Woodward robbed the body of or money and revolver and ammunition ammunition am am- and returned to the barn turned tho horses loo loose e and after aCter remaining In the barn about an hour shooting towards the house occasionally he crawled through a manure hole In the barn caught one of ot the horses and rode rodet over I the mountains and escaped |