| Show BATES TO GO ON TRIAL SOON AT GRAND JUNCTION albert L bates the alleged gunman who was wounded in a midnight gun fight near cisco last october and who has been recovering from his wounds at a grand junction hospital since then will be placed on trial in the district court there in january charged with cracking two safes at de beque two other gangsters lost their lives as a result of the battle and the gang that had been blowing safes throughout colorado and utah is believed to have been broken up completely mike conway said by prom anent officers to have been at the head of a gang of fifty beggs oper aung in altah and colorado received a b luct it in which brought his death at a grand junction hospital and george hughes committed sui cide federal officers who investigated the case and brought about the ar rest of bates declare that there has with a single exception been no safe cracked either in utah or colorado since the desert gun fight which if believed to have been a battle be tween two different gangs the ex caption was a safe in denver a few days ago prior to the desert battle some two dozen safes were blown open in western colorado alone within the space of six months bates has recovered from his three wounds in the arm and should er and an information charging him with the de beque robberies has been filed in district court the case is expected to attract wide attention as the testimony of bates will be in te resting if he will tell what he knows repeated efforts hive been made to get him to confess or to tell about the desert battle acut all hav failed he has served several peni tertiary tent iary and jail terms for various offenses and has been through court trials so often that he is said to bt a good lawyer |
