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Show CHARGE YOUTHS WITH RANCHER'S MURDER OBAND JUNCTION, Colo., July 19 Direct ehargee of murder have been lied against Lee Baker, Virgil Wilson, Gladys Thompson and Lilliaa Osborne, ranging la age from 14 to IT years, as a result q th coroner 'a inquest which held them .for the death of Clande A. Wolfkill, a wealthy bachelor marker. The body ef Wolfkill was feund Wednesday by the boys oa the bank ot tke creek near Clifton. The four are keld withent bail, and only Baker is allowed to see any one. He is beieg allowed this privilege ia the hope that he will make a confession. In aa interview today. Baker declared they eould aot do any more than eend kirn to the. penitentiary for life, and that ke was aot much use out of iaii anyway. Baker Insists that the others have not been telling the truth, and said it waa a rood thing they were kept ia separate cells, for they wonld mskr up a pack of lies if allowed to confer with one another. None of the children seems to take the matter very seriously and all con- i tinue to laugh aad joke about their arrest. |