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Show IRON CO. SHERIFF HAS CLOSE CM IN KSTJpPf Sheriff Fife of Iron county had a close call on Wednesday, when he was shackled to a tree for approximately twenty-four hours by the man and woman that he had trailed and arrested for stealing sacks of wool. According to the information received by Sheriff Brooks, Sheriff Sher-iff Fife had trailed the thelves to their camp and after some difficulty had handciu'fad the man. He then ordered them to proceed him to his car which was parked a short distance away. As they started for the car the man broke into a run when ordered to stop refused to do so. This forced the Sheriff Sher-iff to shoot him. The bullett went in his hack and came out in front. Believeing the man to be fatally fat-ally wounded the Sheriff left the "couple and went down to get his car. When he drove up the man put a shotgun in the car window and told him to "stick them up." Then they disarmed him and shackled him to a tree with his handcuffs took his car and drove away. It was about 10 a.m. Wednesday Wed-nesday mnrnin? when t.hev left him and it was over twenty-four twenty-four hours later that he was able to release himself. The handcuffs were placed so tightly tight-ly on the sheriff that it was a miracle that he was able to release re-lease himself. This he was able to do after suffering excrusiating pain. According to the sheriff the place where he was handcuffed hand-cuffed was so isolated that if he hadn't been able to release himself it might easily have been three months before anyone would have found him. The wool which was stollen from the John L. Sevey ranch near New Castle, has not been round to date. It was not in the truck at the time the sheri.'T found it. Although there was a considerable amount of other stolen property. Sheriff Fife had picked up the tracks and had followed them to about twenty-six miles west of Cedar where he encountered encoun-tered the pair. In the car that they stole were the following arms: A revolver, a shotgun, one large rifle and a 25-20 rifle. The man is described as being about 55 years old, 6 feet tall, weights about 180pounds and was light complected. He was wearing waist overalls, a tan shirt, light hat, and tan shoes with stick on soles. The woman Is about 3 5 years of age, 5 feet 5 inches tall, had a kakai shirt and blue waist overalls and brown shoes. |