Show m KILLED IN FIGHT WAS MUM BURGLAR writing to county attorney C A robertson of this place district attorney adair J hotchkiss of grand junction states that joe conway also known as mike conrad who was shot on the desert 12 miles east of cisco october 9 in an alleged holdup is he is very sure the same person as joe conley sent to the state penitentiary for the burglary of the first national bank of moab in may 1923 mr hotchkiss had obtained from officials of the utah penitentiary a photograph of conley sent from moab at the time of the robbery here attorneys robertson and hotchkiss examined the body of conway at grand junction on october 13 and mr robertson who assisted in the prosecution of conley for the moab robbery believed that conley and conway were the same person in addition to the fatal injuries sustained by conway in the desert shooting albert bates received a badly fractured arm from a gun shot wound nd was also shot in the shoulder and neck the third member of the desert party george hughes at grand junction shortly after the death of conway the colorado authorities connected conway and bates with a number of store burglaries which had been com in towns near grand junction during the early part of october bates is being held on these charges |