Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-08-04 | Page 1 | Slayer of 3 in Colorado is Subnormal

SLAYER OF 3 I IN COLORADO IS SUBNORMAL I I II in This Is Police Belief in l View of Gross Cold i Bloodedness I I II DENVER DEX Colo Aug Au 4 4 UP The trail trall of oC a triple murderer cooled coole 11 today in n the roads and fields south of ot Denver after It had been followed for a a. short distance last night by dogs and men only to be bi lost In a a. boulevard where the fugitive e Is believed to have found a a. vehicle that carried carriell him himfar hImfar far from the place where he shot and killed three persons and wounded a fourth In an attempted holdup Sunday Sunda night The slayer known only as a coatless les collarless Individual with witha a defect In his gait galt took the tho lives of ot USg Miss Marie 1 McCormick Mrs Julia Stearns her er erlIster sister lIster and Fred Irell and wounded Carl Perry members of ot an automobile party with a I revolver er when they met methis his demand for money with asser asser- assertions assertions that they were broke BIT OF CLOTH Armed Armell only with a bit of ot tweed cloth which they found on a a. fence through which tho Iho killer had crawled after tho shooting a posse of ot officers led by bloodhounds picked up the trail of ot the fugi fugi- fugitive fugitive tive last night and after a Q of a few tew miles over roads and andfield field came to a stop In a boule boulevard yard vard a a. mlle mile and a halt half from the tho scene of ot the murders There the dogs lost the scent and further pursuit was aban aban- abandoned for the night Tho rhe high highwayman wayman waman had fled through an alt alf alfalfa alfa field neld and a graveyard then back through a corn field CleM to the road in which the shooting tool took place From there It was fol tol- followed lowed lowe l to the boulevard and an lost SUSPECT MORON lOHO Only a meager description of ot the bandit was furnished by Perry the only survivor of oC the automo automobile bile bUe party Perry told officers that the hold up man leaped from the tho road to the running board of ot the thear ar ar and ordered them at the point of ot a I ISun Sun gun to drive e down a secluded lane When hen they the In Informed In formed him that had no money he ll opened fire and led fled only onh after aCier he hod shot every ery mem- mem of oC the party Dart Dinver nn r believe the high wayman waman Is 18 a II moron Police broadcast the following description of oC the man sought in connection with the slaying of oC two women and a man here night ht Ae 35 to 40 years ears height about S 5 feet 4 Inches weight from to pounds build buill medium He wore a light shirt with a 1 no coat coal grey re trousers and anda a straw hat Ills HI voice olce Is high pitched 1 with a peculiar whining tone