Show 16 furriers Kin Kinf If f S. S L. L Officer D DEL DELTA E L TA Colo Jan 5 u UP Pl- Pl eliff Leonard Wilcox reported that a year old hand had had signed a st statement tt t t he shot two women to death d seriously wounded the hus- hus nd of one of f the women because didn't like the way a lot of were run on the mans man's Colo ranch Dead were Mrs Laura Morris Morrisd d her sister Mrs Edith Java- Java ia ta sisters of acting Capt Clayt Clay- Clay i t Blank of the Salt SaIt Lake City ah police department George I orris husband of one of or thet the t tims ms was shot through the jaw Being held in jail jaH was Richard Guy Pruitt 16 who surrendered officers without attempting to ape Sheriff Wilcox said the boy ned a statement saying he dide did e e shooting with a caliber 22 le e. e The boy said the victims Couldn't let me listen to murder rillers tillers on the radio ladio and made madee I e wash dishes the sheriff said I The Th shooting occurred on the orris ranch at Hotchkiss 21 lies ilea northeast of Delta The he sheriff said Pruitt's ent nt disclosed that the shooting between 1 and 2 pm p.m. while Mr Morris and Ray Raj husband of the other cUm etim were in Hotchkiss on busi- busi ss Ss Pruitt told the officers he heed ed Into the living ro room om of ofie ofIe ie ter ranch arch home and shot the two t t See Page 2 Column 5 TWO KILLED Continued from Page One women through the head Then he said he dragged their bodies into a a. bedroom and waited at a front window for the men to return Fires Fire's at Men When the pickup truck approached approached ap- ap ap ap- proa hed the ranch Pruett said he c went to the front porch and shot Mr Morris the bullet entering entering enter enter- ing ng Mr Morris' Morris jaw and emerging emerging ing inS from the back of his head Mr Morris staggered back into the truck and started to drive away as Pruett fired two shots at Mr Pruett jumped on the truck as asit asit ast it t pulled away from the ranch threw his rifle away and rode with hc the men as they drove to a neighboring neighboring neigh- neigh boring boring ranch Mr phoned sheriffs sheriff's officers from there but Pruett made no attempt to escape Acting Capt Clayton Blank of the he Salt Lake police department prepared Wednesday to leave for Delta elta Colo after receiving word of the death of ot his two sisters The victims also have three other brothers in Salt Lake City Carl John and Clarence Blank Bank and two sisters Mrs Dolly Hough Los x s Angeles and Mrs Ethel Heune leune Modesto Ca Cal The father L. L E E. E Blank resides in Salida Colo the family home where the brothers and sisters were reared The victims had never resided in n Salt Lake City |