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Show I CAUGHT IN OGDEN; I HELD 1 MOK Hl Kemmerer, Wyo Nov. 29. Claude H ' md Roy Bird of Utah, who are charg- Hi ed with "head hunting," will be gly- H! en a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Hi Novcmher 30. They have been In H IniL hore for several months, follow- 1 Ing their recapture In Utah after es- Hi caping from a Wyoming game ward- HL en. They woro at liberty a year j between tho time of their escape and 1 recapture. Expert counsel has beeu 1 employed for them and a hard fight H) Kftl ho mado at the preliminary hear- H) The Bird brothers wero arrested in 1 the Teton country in 1914, charged j ivlth, killing elk for their teeth. A j aumber of the teeth, which are prized H tor use as fraternal emblems, were J ound concealod in buckets of lard at H Jelr camp. Whflo being brought to j Ml here tho prisoners, although band- i ruffed together, leaped from a mov- H) C train. Before tho train was stop- W ?ed they had found refuge in a stream l beneath overhanging willows, where 1 :hey romained, partly submerged, un- H HI nightfall. They then beat off their H' landcuffs with stones and were able to mako their way into Utah. "Head hunting" is considered the most pernicious form of violation of the game laws in Wyoming and the state game department will mako every ev-ery effort to convict the Birds. |