Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-08-07 | Page 7 | Woman Offered Office of Sheriff

WOMAN OFFERED OFFICE OF SHERIFF Craig, Colo., Aug. 7. Mrs. Annie Decker for sheriff. This is the slo-. gan of friends of the intrepid woman who Sunday captured, single-handed and alone, Charles Sartclle, alias Charles Morgan, alleged leader of the desperate gang of desperadoes from the Holo-ln-thc Wall county, Wyoming. Wyom-ing. If Mrs. Docker consents to make the race for sheriff of Moffat county, It will be the first lime in the history of the stale that a woman has sought this office. As a result of the terrible suffering sustained by the trio of outlaws who broke jail here n week ago, Charles Franzen. the first captured, is lying at the point of death in a local hospital hos-pital suffering from blood poisoning through the infection of the bullet wound which he suffered prior to his capture. Sartellc is a raving maniac and has to be tied to his cot in the jail at Dixon, Wyo.. where he was taken following his capture by Mrs Decker. Andrew Comstock is still at large with three posses on his trail