Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-12-30 | Page 2 | Battle at Dawn When Posse Meets Hun

B. B BA A r. r W AT I T DAWN AW W WHEN I POSSE MEETS ETS 0 HUN ri i MENnis MN MEN R nis I READY RADi I P l lON ON GUARD AT Ii NARROWS NA HOW Escaped Germans Believed j Hiding in Canyon Dark Darkness Darkness I. I I ness neBS Causes Officers to Abandon Search Till Day JI I rj WHEN daylight this morning JI vv reveals the contents s of the brush UJ covered cr crevices vices of Jordan 1 N Narrows an armed battle may 1 ensue between a posse of deputy of-deputy sheriffs and one of ot the mu h hunted I German aliens who escaped early last 1 I Monday morning from tho the war prison j i barracks at F Ft F. Douglas I Sheriff John S. S Corless and C Captain Cap Cap- p- p tam tain JUicy lUley M. M Beckstead together j I with a posse of officers and citizens i searched for hours last night through i the tho dense willow growth of the narrows narrows narrows nar- nar rows for a man they believe to be be bei i Kurt G. G Wilkins one of the esc escaped ped prisoners I Deputies heavily annell were left I i stationed at every passage and avenue aye ave nue of escape from the narrows narrows' late j last night when darkness fed fedI further exploration tJ I v of the le rug rugged e I TI I broken ThE They were instructed to remain aln on on- guard until daylight this morning discloses Whether one of the the hunted hunted 1 liens has been trapped That the fugitive e is armed is the belief of officers and a battle ma may mar follow if daylight reveals his presence I USES HUN ACCENT j Sheriff Corless in company with Captain Beckstead and other deputies i and und officers rushed to the Jordan Narrows from Salt Lake following a report that a man answering the de deI description description de- de 1 I ot of Wilkins was seen J ter- ter ing in the vicinity I I The information was J hed by Edward C. C Buffington a Conductor i Ion on the tho Denver Denv r Rio Grande railroad I I Buffington told the police be le spoke i to the stranger while the train traInS stopped at the narrows an am J that the latter replied with a decided German GermanI 1 I accent I Buffington declared that as his train i reached the narrows he saw the man j i come out of ot an old stone tone section i i house The conductor or said he imme- imme dia el ely recognized the man as being I one of the escaped aliens from flom deI descriptions descriptions de de- de- de published of the prisoners I According to Sheriff Corle Corless persons in the vicinity saw the man nn manI I and all furnished a description that tallied in every detail with that of ot j Wilkins The sheriff stated late last night after his return from the hunt that ItIs It Itis itIs I is possible the man made his way wy out of the tho narrows before toe arrival of f the j officers However inquiry In to lo the south failed to reach reah anyone who had seen mei such a person The run from Salt Lake was Vas made by auto and ana in exceptionally fast time For this reason it Is probable the officers say that the man la Is still slut hiding some place in the narrows narro Those who left Snit Salt alt Lake in the tho posse and who assisted in the long search last night were Sheriff orl Corless ss s. s I Captain Beckstead Deputy Sheriff Dick Richardson Deputy Oscar Fullmer i i Police Thomas and Tom Wilkins Wil VIl kins of Fullmer and Wilkins and a number of deputized citizens were left guarding the passages passage of the narrows narrows nar rows when the search ended for the I nl ht I I 1