Show CONVICTS LOSE IN FIGHT WITH POSSE SALEM Or Oct 18 The Tho battle that bc began an Saturday night ni between a posse of sixt sixty men and three escaped penitentiary convicts was resumed Sunday with tho result that ono one of the convicts is dead and two seriously wounded The battle battlo took place on the bank of the Willamette river about fifteen miles south of here Tho The dead dea man is George Georgo Carter Carfer sentenced sen sen- from eastern Oregon on for horse stealing Carter was tho the leader of tho the gang He lIe was shot through the thc wrist and in tho forehead Probably Fatally Wounded George Duncan was shot through the tho stomach and will probably die Ho lie also was ras Bervin serving a sentence for horse borse stealing stealing steal steal- in ing and is believed d to have havo been Carters Carter's Carters Carter's Car Car- ter's tor's partner Albert Ferris was shot through tho the left arm tho bullet bullot loda in ing mc in his lung UD He Ho is in a serious serious condition con con- He Ho w wa ws s serving in a 3 sentence for burglary At daybreak Sunda Sunday the tho posse DOSS which had hall continued the tho struggle Saturday ni night ht until long Ion after midnight took too up the search for tho the fu fugitives The Tho men had not moved any considerable considerable consider consider- able abc distance in the night before daylight day day- light and were soon loon located making their way up tip stream and carrying Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can cnn on a stretcher The posse began shooting at nt the tho gang an anand and when the pursuers closed in on tho the fugitives Carter Cartor was as dead and tho other two were w too badly injured to mako make an any further resistance Unaware of or Conditions After tho the men hn hail had been captured it was ascertained that Duncan W was S wounded b bv by Deputy Sheriff Johnson Saturday night when Johnson was hilJ himself wounded Johnson on also shot Carter in tho wrist during durin this fight With these three out of tho the way wa wan a n po posse o head d by Sheriff II H. P. P M Minto nto of Marion count county turned its attention to two tC other fugitives who separated from the tho major part of the tho gang Friday Priday Fri da day ni night ht or Saturday Minto into and hi hip his p party early in tho the day struck a trail which h they believe is that of the tho convicts eon con viets and they are arc now following it through tho the underbrush Thi This part of the gang is compos composed cd of Mike Miko Nicho Nicho- Uch f sentenced for larceny and Albert Murra Murray serving int a sentence for arson |