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Show SHERIFFS MCIT ' FOR LiURDEdDUS; GfiflGJFTIIRGS Man Chase Continues Wkile , Miss Roy lance FiUeralL 19, Lies Critically Wound- ! ed Paralysis Is Feared TWO SUSPECTS ARE ; . . GIVEN FREEDOM Four Autos Stolen, SJvots Find at Two, Girl Is Wounded in Chapter of Terror) Car Is Found e t WHh th tint two ausoeeu exoner-td exoner-td and freed from tBt) tbr Iff fore today begaa following do or BBor elue which It wal oped would remit la apprehension t th tw yeuthfal bandit wb terror-la4 terror-la4 eounty road Baturday night Four automobile war stolen, tw thr wr riddled with bullet and Mia Roylaae rttigerald. It. ef Dra-Pr, Dra-Pr, wag perhapa faulty shot during th crime orgy. Whll praotloally th entlr orifr fore waa detailed I lavaattgalioa tl th rartoua angle r th Crimea, tk eaad which I being followed oy Chief Criminal Dsputy Herbert Leihter era kept a omplte aeeret by Sheriff JCmery. It waa ctated that h waa working aa a promising elue. a Physician operated upon Miss Roy. tear at th L. D. B. hospital and removed re-moved th bullet from th front and -fight aid of th necIL They had pr tlcally hop for hr recovery, on of thm stating that be had neve heard ef a perasn surviving suck wound. It waa declared to be pree- tleeUly a elmllar-wound aa that euf- fared by Sergeant. N. P. Pierce of tn polle fore from a bandit' bulta. with th exception that It 'rueb. th third dorsal vertebrae, whicn le seven vertebrae hlghw than the Pierce Injury. In-jury. Th spinal cord u avvered l both caeca, but Plerc I now accorded accord-ed chance ef life with paralysi of th lower body. Should th girl recover, ah will b paralysed for life. It la said. , DOPI THE0RV DISCARDED. It waa th flrat belief of officer working on th eaa that th bandit wer either drunk on aaoonshlae" whisky or under th Influence of nar-' ootlcs, . Thl theory haa beea replaosd today, however, by th thought that th entire evening was Inaplnd solely by the desire for eseltement la pras-tlcally pras-tlcally every detail, tha holdup correspond corre-spond to that a week age In which Ben Shapiro of th Semloh hold waa betel up on State street near Draper. Th holdup answer th asm description a I hoe that held up Shapiro, even ta th masks, one of which was black and th other a red handkerchief. The four-hour period In which th tw bandit operated resulted In th theft of four automobllea, the shooting . ' t two others, th narrow eeeape at B. D. Cook from bullet and th per-hap per-hap fatal ehootlng of Mia Fltagarald. SHERIFFS SPREAD NET. Deputy sheriffs of Bait Lake and surrounding counties and members of th city polio force Joined early Sunday Sun-day morning In spreading act for th aaptur of th robber. Th last car In which th bandit war known to have operated wae recovered re-covered from a mudhole near West Jordan. Tha officers tracked the tw men from the car to an abandoned cabin on the Btedmaa farm, wasr th trail waa lost. , Their wllllngneea to shoot with deadly Intent and th number f crimes In th same vicinity -prove t th officer that these responaibk were not figuring their action la advanc. bat war merely , prowling th roada, holding up vry oar ba , eight. i t ,., , AUTO stolen; Theft of an automoh- trom A An-derann. An-derann. 111 Second kvat street, at , 7:1 p. m Saturday was the ordinary beginning ( th crime, y A I moot a soon aa th theft waa reported, th two thug had driven their car te th general 'm-rehsnrits tor of Henry Bills at Rlverton. They (Continued on par t) SHERIfRHUNT (Continued from page 1.) held him up and obtained Mod. displaying dis-playing both rifles and automatic pistols. Near Routh Jordan waa the neat appearance of the bandit car. At a lonely oil station Mr. and Mra. Joseph Hmlth wer counting tha days receipt. re-ceipt. The bandit emptied the cash drawer. Carl fteadlrker. employe of the Grady Motor eompany. waa -driving a car alowly along tha Prove road. He heard the honk of an approaching car and puld slightly to the side to allow It to pass. Ha waa crowded Into the ditch; there was a flourish of gun and ho waa forced t exchange his car for thsl of the bandits. CARS STAGE RACE. While the car were being exchanged, ex-changed, B. D. Coolr of Ophlr drew In sight. He passed the holdup scene and suspected that aomsthlng was wrong; he knew for certain when he heard a car In pursuit The pursuing csr psssed him and he then regained the lead. Three times that happened, and then tha bandit car began to crowd him off the mad. One of the bandlta waa standing on the running board. "Wop." he, shouted to Cook, and hs made certain his meaning by firing his automatic pistol. The bullet splintered tha windshield wind-shield and Cook felt hi glaaae abetter. abet-ter. II stopped his car. One of the young men helped Cook to climb from hla oar. telling him that he was lucky to have eacaped. They took his car, a Tight model reputed to b speedy. The successive robberies were being reported to the county Jell and Hhgrlff Kmery and deputies wsra being organised or-ganised for pursuit. Rodney Cushlng. 10. of Bandy, drove his new automobile to the home pt Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Fltsgerald of Draper. Dra-per. He waa to escort Miss Fltsgerald to a dance In Bait Lake. The bandit car drew alongside. Not falling Into the trap of being crowded off the road aa the other cars had done, dishing stepped on the accelerator. acceler-ator. For three miles the race was on, ths two car dipping and swaying from side to eble of the snow-covered road. The bandit oar drew alongside again; a bullet crashed through the windshield. Cushlng drovs hi car fester and again pulled ahead. The first shot had probahly been from a pistol; the next wss from a rifle. At a dtatance or less than fifty Vards. were care careening madly from aide to side, the rifleman began hla work. Twelve bullets bul-lets In all struck the Rssex. on of them finding a mark In Miss Fltxgcr-ald'a Fltxgcr-ald'a bark. Cushlng waa unaware that tha girl was Injured. A tire of his oar blew out. possibly from being struck by one of the bullets, but he kept the car full speed ahead. Only after the bandits had been left behind did the girl speak. "Rodney. I'm shot." she murmured a she dropped Insensible. "Probably death, paralysis for life the alternative." waa tha verdict of the physicians who took her tn charge at the hospital. Her spinal cord was severed by .the bullet. The first suspects were taken to B.TV erton. They refused to talk. Othen wera being sought by tha sheriffs men while descriptions wera circulated tc surrounding countlee to make sure ol the capture. |
