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Show BANDIT SHOT TO DEATH AS CLIMAX TO ALL DAY MAN-HUNT . . 1 Man in Jail Here Confesses True Identity After four hours of grilling today to-day the bandit captured yesterday by a Washington county posse in the rough country northwest of St. George, and held in jail here with two women companions, made a complete confession. He said he and man who was killed yesterday evening are escaped escap-ed convicts from the Mississippi state prison. His true name, he said, is J. D. Snyder, and he was sent up for burglary. The dead man's name was Jesse C. Self, according ac-cording to Snyder's confession. Self was sent to the pen for car theft. He said they escaped on September Septem-ber 5 from the Mississippi prison, hid out a month at Mars, Mississippi. Missis-sippi. They stole the Packard sedan se-dan at Tunica, Mississippi, and drove it to Kansas City. They picked up the two women in Kansas, according to the confession, con-fession, and the four started west, committing burglaries in cities' and towns in Kansas, Colorado and Utah. It has not yet been decided whether whe-ther the prisoners will be prosecuted prose-cuted here or turned over to federal fed-eral authorities. Several charges may be lodged against Snyder, including in-cluding violation of the Dyer auto act, white slavery, assault with intent to commit murder, and burglary. Members of Posse Overtake Fugitive Fu-gitive in North End of Snow Canyon at 5:30 Wednesday Evening; Bullet Through Body Proves Fatal and Man Died on Way to St. George Jerry Wilson, the member of the bandit gang, who out-distanced a posse all day Wednesday, was brought to bay yesterday evening at the north end of Snow canyon, about 10 miles northwest north-west of St. George, and after being given every chance to surrender without with-out bloodshed, was shot three times by members of the posse. Two shots shattered his right arm and one entered en-tered his back at the left and passed through the body. The latter wound proved fatal and the man died at about 10:30 last night while being brought to St. George. The lulling of Wilson came as a Climax to an exciting day during which a posse variously estimated to number num-ber from fifty to one hundred Washington Wash-ington county men, combed the rough country north west of St. George for two men and two women who robbed the Dailey garage at Paragoonah on Tuesday night, eluded the Iron county coun-ty officers and came into St. George at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. Although Wilson was armed with two pistols, one full of shells and the other empty, he made no attempt to return the fire of the posse. Every opportunity was given him to surrender. surren-der. About 30 shots were fired at him during the chase, not with the intent of killing the man, but to stop him. A member of the posse which finally (Continued on page 3) f-BNDIT SHOT TO DEATH 1JY POSSE (Continued from page 1) brought Wilson down says that when ll,ey went to hliu after he was wounded wound-ed tlicy asked if he was armed. He replied re-plied No, but upon raisins him they jound the loaded pistol beneath him. Jack Williams, Wilson's partner, is in jail here as ore the two women members of the gang. Williams gives his ase as 21, and says his home is in Little Rock, Ark. Wilson's address also was given as Little Rock. The two women give the names of Gladys Brown, aged 20, and Vilin Sutton, 8ired 21. both of Omaha, The names and addresses given are probably fictitious. fic-titious. Their story is that they were hiking west, and were picked up a short distance this side "of Salt Lake ty WJUiams and Wilson. They say they left Omaha about three weeks ago. ' Williams, in a statement Wednesday night said he and Wilson had been pais for many years in Little Rock. He said he was the owner of the car in which they were traveling, having purchased the machine in Arkansas. He said they came by way of Denver, Den-ver, but could recall no other town through which they passed before reaching Salt Lake. Neither of the men are married. Both women said they had been married, but had left their husbands. Shortly before 3 o'clock Wednesday morning local officers received a message mes-sage from Sheriff Leigh of Iron county coun-ty instructing them to stop a gray Packard sedan, the occupants of which, he said, had robbed the Dailey Garage at Paragoonah. The highway between the Pickett Lumber Co. and the Liberty hotel was barricaded with cars and Sheriff Wm. Brooks, Deputy Cottam and Joe Empey went to the Dixie Camp corner to stop the machine. ma-chine. John Cottam went on east about half a block and flagged the machine with a flashlight. The car slowed up and apparently was coming com-ing to a stop when suddenly the driver shifted to second, stepped on the gas and made straight for Cottam, who narrowly escaped being run down. The driver, seeing the barricade, turned turn-ed south on First East street. Cottam Cot-tam and Brooks fired five shots at the machine, three of which took effect, ef-fect, it was learned, when the car was found at noon near the college farm by Jos. K. Nicholes and Urie Macfarlane. The occupants abandoned their machine, ma-chine, stole the one belonging to Gordon Gor-don Mathis and slipped through town. Sheriff Brooks, in the meantime, had sent word to Santa Clara and a barricade barri-cade was put up there. Sheriff Leigh had arrived from Cedar and with John Cottam began a search of the south part of the town and valley. The gang, finding their way through Santa Clara obstructed, retraced their route and turned south along the Black ridge. They abandoned Mathis' car due west iof St. George at the foot of the ridge and took to the hill on foot. thS t, tTnfUnd at dayli8ht and epesranrtf0llTed direCt,y over the nill ?L most mssei Part f the lev !T d0Wn int0 the val-north val-north rr thCr Side they tumed H?r ' cTossme the highway about three miles west of St. George Thev were sighted several times but were a long distance away mdHffr1 '?l0Ck Deputy Cottam and Sheriff Leigh cornered the fuci- and?ter iRh had fired X and captured Williams and the two women, Wilson escaping. The two T"1 onf man were handcuffed and Cottam started for town with them, while Leigh took up the trail of Wilson. While coming over a particularly par-ticularly difficult ledge one of the ZZZ fel! and was slighty in- Cottam released one thumb cuff on his prisoner to help the woman and while in the act of assisting the woman wom-an to her feet, Williams, using his tree hand picked up a large boulder and struck Cottam on the side of the head temporarily stunning him All three then attacked Cottam who was dazed by the blow on the head He probably owes his life to the fact that the three were handcuffed together and their movements were hampered Cottam came to town and the injury to his head was dressed About 10 o'clock the two women were captured and at noon Williams was apprehended about two - miles northwest of Albert E. Miller's ranch He offered no resistance. Williams and the two women are held in jail here awaiting the arrival of a federal officer from Salt Lake who is expected tonight, when disposition dispo-sition will be made of their cases |
