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Show KILLS CAPTOR AND GETS AWAY Steamboat Springs, Colo., OcL G. An attempt to secure $15,000 ransom by kidnaping R. M. Perry, manager of the Moffat coal mine at Oak Creek, Wednesday night, was frustrated late today, when Perry at an opportune moment seized a revolver 'from ono of his captors and shot him dead, according ac-cording to J. C. P'rye, Bheriff, who with Perry and a posse began pursuit of others of the band. One of the kidnappers was arrested and taken to jail at Steamboat Springs, where ho refused to divulge his name. While awaiting a reply from a remand re-mand for the ransom sent Perry's father. S. M. Perry, in Denver, the younger Perry was kept under guard in a canyon in Twenty-Mile park, midway betwen Coal Creek and Steamboat Springs. According to reports re-ports here, Perry 'frcod himself from the ropes with which ho was tied, procured the revolver from his guard and killed him. Perry made his way to a ranch house, from which ho telephoned. The message, however, was garbled, and its source could not be determined before communication failed. Sheriff J. C. Fryc organized a posse and is said to have found Perry unharmed un-harmed in Twenty-Mile park. How many were In the band has not been learned here. Although two were accounted for the sheriff's posse continued con-tinued after dark tonight to scour the mountainous country around Coal Creek. |