Show FATALLY nome deputies Deput les briddie an escaping thiela special to den denser ter voal ST JOSEPH mo aug 21 robt N laws a horse thief who escaped from jail in webster county sometime some tame ago was shot and fatally wounded by one of t a party of deputy sheriffs last night about 11 some som three or tour four days ago u state warrant warran charging laws with HORSIC STEALING was pent to sheriff andriano hy by the sheriff of webster county a accompanied hy by a letter stating that he was in the city and asking that he be aw acs ined lately arrested it was arrau arranged ged to arrest him bun thursday night but the deputies being all engaged in the search for the tae parties who shot sergeant gunn it was decided to postpone the affair till last ni night lit accordingly atio at 10 six deputy sheriffs ri repaired paired to the house where he was war stopping which is located near kings packing house and surrounded it laws had bad in some way obtained ined knowledge of their intention and at tempted to escape by the front door hut but was confronted by deputy golda who commanded him to halt lie ile GAVE NO anerd nerd I 1 to the order but bat turned and ran up the garden through some tall grass and weeds weedo the sheriffs in close pursuit they all opened tire and after five or six had bees been heard him cry out tor for his wife golda abt was nearest dearest to hip him ordered him to throw up his hill bana which he did and was taken hack back to the house where baie be pank down exhausted laws was shot phot through the liver right kidney and bladder r the ball entering the back and coming out at the abdomen he E le will die before ur I 1 the best information that can be obtained law is a very tough char acter and many are inclined to the belief that he was one of the parties who FARMER GANN a few niebas ago it is positively k biown adov n that on the tb night odthe of the tragedy be was not at home norbid nor did he be return till the neu ue day ile he is said t to 0 have been in the he habit of frequently staying out nights and as several times limes went tp 10 kansas city where vi here tie be has re bained days at a time this afternoon an officer made of laws premises in south st joseph and found an underground stable with a capacity 0 of I 1 twe twelve I 1 horses SIX sis horses were fauntl with guns uns aud and ammunition and and tools of var various louil kind ohp horses without doubt were sot sote see e of those that have been stolen in this vicinity within the pact ast few months public pub olic indignation indigena a on is high and laws would B ba LYNCHED were his death not already assured the circumstantial evi evidence deace Is very strong that laws and his bis compan companion tot who escaped are not only the shooters of samuel gunn but the men that robbed henry lowe a baraw in midday on thursday on the public highway near gunns house mr lowes description of the men tallies with the of laws and his pal pa I 1 while mr gunns description of his bis assailants tallies with them also As important in an arrest has net been mae here in years |