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Show OFFICERS FIGHT WmnLRfTLAWS r Is inc. Wash.. Oct. 22. Two men were killed and one wounded today in a battle between a posse composed of Canadian and American deputy sh riffs, customs officers and luu-tiiigration luu-tiiigration inspectors and five outlaws si prosed to have robbed the Hist National Na-tional Bank of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., of 520,000 last Saturday when they killed a boy while firing at citizens on the street. The dead- HIBP ADAMS, Canadian customs inspector. Unidentified bandit. Wounded : JAMES SMITH. Canadian customs Inapt I tor hand shattered by bullet. The slain bandit was apparently a foreigner He carried in a belt $2,500 m gold coin. RobberG surrounded In Woods. The other four robbers are sur rounded In the woods at Hazelmere, B C . close to the border. The posse kept a sharp lookout last night, having hav-ing learned that the robbers after an encounter with officers at Ferndale v, i re moving tow ard the Canadian boundary. Early today U. S. Customs Inspec tor William Schaffner. on guard on the old Great Northern rlht of way. saw five men approaching. Instead of halting them he withdrew to the rtarest telephone office and cnlled up other members of the posse with the result that the robbers a half hour later had reached a point a mile ami a half further on where they were confronted by a formidable bod of peace officers commanded by In Bpector Burke of the U. S immirga ticn service Burke called on the men to halt Their leader drew a pistol, but before be-fore he could fire, Burke shot him dead In B moment firing became general on both sides Adams fell dead, Burke's hat was perforated by a bullet and the four surviving rob hers fled, with the posse in hot pursuit |