| Show C vm A IT U I 1 aji 0 dat i ven U S harals 13 all hie 8 I 1 floto was robbers Robi irs rull ACCOUNT OJ 01 tas make committed and the battle with tha boffl officers cers col cil after a ec extending tending over ten tell months and atter aher six encounters with different legal posses tho the nort orious train robbers john sontag soiling 0 and chris evans finally last night nicho met four deputy united states man marshals bals and as a result of the encounter which followed sontag kontir way tab wounded possibly fatally fi tally and is now in cust custody otly having been brought 0 here at 1030 this forenoon his companion chris evans escaped after firing 0 forty shots at liis his pursuers where lie mado made his stand last night g lie left a hat and two empty t guns ni nil l and the ground round vius v us found covered with blood this morning 0 an lit indication that he too wounded bein being t without guns or ammunition it is thou thought glit that he too will ile ba captured the officers had been in the mountains for a week looking for tile the roM robbers bere and sunday afternoon camped at a vaca vacant nt house eighteen in les leg northeast t of this city about minutes before sunset two mn were seen comin coming 9 down the bill toward the place on closer observation it was discovered the mt toimi pi were no other than evans and aa as 0 i f ii acl d desperadoes es cradoc aJa afir RT pg C I 1 M their guns and pre prepared red to m make ahe a fight alic officers went out of the front door 0 a house and as ap they went ircia around tile the back at the corner evans saw thern them and took deliberate aim and fired just then leon leoil puy uty jackson opel opened id fire tile the bandits sontag 0 was seen to throw tl up ill both hands ind and fall backward then tile the fring 0 became general anti and evans return returned ed the shots with vengeance E evans vans got behind an all old rubbish pile out of sli bight lit but kept ept up ill a terrible raking fusillade jackson was shot in tha left leg between the anca and the ankle about forty shots were b between tween the off acers and the ban lindith d its and darkness ended the battle evans evana was seen tu to crawl from behind the ru rubbish abish pile anti and ran toward 1 the hills hilla follow followed C d 1 by a do decaty itty who continued firing alvans did not return the fi fire re a and il in a few minutes was out of sight deuty P rapelje tali elic returned to tile the libuse and procuring a wagon baroug brought jackson to this city S soon 0 on after midnight marshal card and burns remained at the scene until mi an anin ning S btag 0 lay behind a small email stack nf hay all ni night lit evans tracks show shove lie ho started toward visalia and his home ionic will lie be watched day and night sontag contat talks fil freely ebli and says the j jig q is ap up and does not dot care for tile future it is poa possible sible lie ina in r recover frona from his wounds tho the train robbery which was the beginning of this criminal chapter kcf occurred jirred at collins near fresno california on august 3 1602 an express car was blown up tip with dynamite and the express ine messenger isen george U D P roberts injured the officers soon niter after ar acted re ailed george gcorge sontag at the housse house of chris evans in this city ile he was afterward tried and sent to the penitentiary for life when v hen nil an attempt atti ti was mado to arrest evans lie and J atin tit sol gonlag btag opened fire firo on the officers ulli cers wounding george witty in the second encounter O oscar ocar car beaver an al officer was waa killed in front of evans house on september l alli andrew andrei mcginness ic and victor C wilson were killed in the mountains b by th the c bandits and two other officers pierc v wounded on oil may S J black another officer was wounded by tho the bandits in the no previous criminal incident in 4 Cali fornias history lias has occasioned 1 greater public interest until tile the train robbery occurred evans had bad borne a good reputation and the great reat st surprise iriri c was shown when the crime was traced to his door coming coining down from tile scene of tile the affair last night sontag talked freely to the officers lie ile said lie and nd evans had not had a cent of money for a month but aid dad not intend to huld hold up the train tha they y would have left the mountains mountain only they had biad no ilione money or clothes when I 1 was shot last night lie ile said 1 1 I asked chris charif to shoot me MC but lie would not we had two wi winchester n eh ester two shot 0 guns auns and two six shooters chris carried away the winchester and had plenty of ain ammunition evaglia Evan I 1 vans lia has ollen often slid said he xv was as sorry ho ill shot at deputy sheriff witty lie ile thou thought glit it was detective smith lie Ife would likye shot detectives hams hame smith or thacker through but besides beside these we were only after the blood money men we did no not always stay together but never separated longer than four hours we could not have been convicted of train robbery ai we hao had no hand lianko in in 1 it tile the southern pacific did me ine a liar hard d turn when I 1 was hurt in their employ so 0 o when smith tried to arr es t tile me last august I 1 determined I 1 would not bo be taken by a southern pacific jacif lc officer why I 1 resisted 11 sontag sonta talked calmly lie ile refused to tate what he and evans evan S had in contemplation ile he seemed confident that evans would never bo be captured alive VISALIA cal juno june 13 ork on information a posse went last night toa tea cabin twenty ailes from here where they found chris evans the notorious lis train robber who escaped in the fight fight in which liis his partner sontag L was so eo badly wounded that lie he could not get away evans was severely wounded in three 0 places aces but will recover the officers brought him here and lie he and sontag ta are now in jail |
