Show WYOMING SHERIFF KILLED IN HUNTING OUTLAWS SHERIFF DECOYED TO HIS DEATH BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED drave lierl fT wan attempting to u I 1 arlo or from natron jail still 1 lland 81 briffa have met ll 11 acker s late in attempting to arrest the officer ata a of wild hilll sheriff W ricker of natrona county one of the best ki own otil ciale in wyom ng was shot and fatally wounded in a fegl t w th outlaws at lel woodard ranch fifty lea from per on tl an I 1 his bo ly inutile abed in a fiendish manner ahe outlaws escaped to the hills followed by the re mining members of the posse and upon receipt of the news of the killing forty more men left casper friday to hunt tl e murderers down the latest news from tl scene of the murder indicates that the sl ariff was decoyed into the stable at the woodard rand etere after being tortured in tl e most brutal manner possible he was killed I 1 y inches one of his posse who went with bin into the barn went off with tie outlaws afterward wl eti er willingly or not it Is not known the outlaws cons sted at first of the two woodard brothers an 1 two other prisoners who went with them it is believed holever ho vever tl at upon arriving at the Wood warl ranch tl ey were joined by some desperadoes from the hole in tl e wall country when the posse read ed the ranch they found all the doors of the cabin closed and tl e window curtains drawn while they were making tl air examinations 1 however a man stepped out of the barn and acted as though 1 e was surprised to see hie intruders later develop bents however made it patent the kosbe was expected upon seeing tl e sheriff s posse the fellow made off in the booti ils ul ind tl e stable two of tl e posse followed him and were soon out of sigl t in tl e hills As soon as tl e figl tive and ins pi had disappeared one other man came aiu of tl e stable an 1 hailed the sheriff and his one rn dining deputy who 1 alpene I 1 to be tl e one who is BOW missing spooling nothing and believing they were two against one tl e sheriff and tl e quondam deputy went to the stable what happened to the sher ff tl ere before death re leased him from 1 is torture only be surmised from the mutilated alpean ance of his body for when the two members of tl e posse who laid ased the first bandit were m aking tl air way back to tl e prem ses tl ey were aud denly halted by a rifle bullet which whistled close to tl air 1 eads it soon became apparent to them that tl ey would both be kille 3 if they advanced upon the outlaws strong old and returned to casper for re before fleeing the band ts took pickers body out of the barn andl leaned it up against tl e fence ilia fingers were tl off and his teeth knocked in ills face was a most un recognizable from tl e many bruises on it ir addition to this all tl e clothing that had been left upon him had been torn to shreds I 1 he position of tl e body and the manner in which it had been disfigured created the impress on bhatti intended it as a warning to the other pursuers when they saw the barbarous treat ment that had been adm ered to the sheriff duany members of the posse swore to devote the rest of their lives if need be to the capture of the outlaws ahe outlaws broke jail at casper december and have s nee been closely followed by a posse organized by 1 ariff R acker every sl ariff who has attempted to arrest members of tl e hole in the wall gang has met P acker s fate and conse not a few have lacked the courage to do tl air duty sheriff ricker was one of the peculiar pioneer characters of wyoming and was well and most favorably known throughout the blate lie was tl e only volunteer wl d enlisted from his home county to go to cuba and fight for alie liberty of tl e cuban people when a mere lad dressed in big boots a man s hat and two single bar meled horse p 1 e resented an im insult from wild bill in chi cago and offered to fight it out with that prince of the plains instead the plainsman patched up a truce with young picker and brought him across the vast waste from old fort dearborn to san u wl ere t ft entered the pit as broncho buster and afterward became a mountaineer and range rider he roamed all over tl e wast and settled on a ranch near casper a number of years ago lie was about years of age |