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Show LYNCHING Wyomins: Desperado flay HoUivc to Stand Trial for Shootingr. ' ; ; . CASPER. Wyo.. May ll-Frank 8mlth. alias "Black Mike." a notorious tough, was placed in jsll last night after two desperate des-perate nghts. in which he shot a deputy sheriff and three of a posse, one of them fatally. Lynching is threatened and may occur soon. -' While drunk Wednesday Smith cashed a. forged check. Today the man who cashed It demanded his money and Smith shot at blm, the ball erasing his head. Deputy Sheriff Hodback then attempted to arrest ar-rest Smith and was shot' through the band, losing a finger. , Smith then fled to a deserted cabin, which was soon surrounded by a Sheriff's posse and a hundred sheepmen. Over a hundred shots were fired into the cabin, but Smith held it and returned the fire, wounding three men, one of them, Carl Knudson, fatally. More rifles and cartridges were sent for and while the besiegers were waiting for them Black Mike" escaped to a gulch near by. hiding In the sagebrush. When the guns and munitions arrived the posse rigged a wagon with baled hay as a barricade, bar-ricade, and. pushing this close to the outlaw, out-law, compelled his surrender. He was lodged In Jail at Wolton, near here, and is to be brought here today unless threats of lynching are carried -out before the Sheriff reaches Wolton. |