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Show TRACED! CAUSER Bl HIGHWAYMEN Two Masked Hen Murder a Nevada Barkeeper and Take About $1,200 From the Place. Sheotlno Believed to Have Been Done by an es Convict Who Hated the Murdered Man Indian on tho Trail of Robbers and They Probably Will bt Caught Cobre. Nevada Two masked high, xaymen entered lllllmsn's saloon at Cobre. killed the night luvrtender, J. H. (lllllam, and robbed tbe oaah register reg-ister and roulette wheel of about 11,800 The men were very cool nnl evidently old bands at the business. One of th hold-ups entered the saloon sa-loon by the front diwr. Tho man coming com-ing from the rear door entered a few ttepe ahead of hla partner and or-dcrcd or-dcrcd all to bold up their hinds Oil-Ham Oil-Ham did not see Uio other man coming com-ing In and made an attempt to got his revolver from behind the bar The other holdup was too quirk for him. however He fired whllo still ontsldit tbe door, the bullet striking llllllnm a little behind and above the left ear The hold-up flred another abut, when some one yelled. "Don't hoot him any more, he Is dead now" "Get behind be-hind there nnd pull him out, let' sen If be Is doad," resiwnded the high-w high-w a man (lllllam was carried nut and laid In the rear of the saloon, ami died about n half hour later. The thugs then proceeded to rnn-sack rnn-sack the register, securing about l?R. after which they took about 1.100 from the roulette wheel The men left the place and niado for the hills east of town At daybreak mery man who could get away started out to hunt the murderer mur-derer About 4 o'clock In thn ntler-noon ntler-noon word was recelted that nn old Indian from this place bad found where tbey camped and was hot on Ihclr trail and expected to capture the men at any time lln baa Inslrnr-liens Inslrnr-liens from the sheriff to shoot on sight llefore coming to Cobre (lllllam was chief turnkey nt the Washington stnto prison, nnd It Is believed that the thootlng wits done by an ex convict con-vict ot that place nt (lllllam had re ceived sctcral threatening Iclleru tlnco coming here from mm who had a grudge against him. Ope of Ihe holdups was beard tn say before the shooting, "I will kill . that guy In bind Iho bar," |