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Show JEFFERS HIGH OVER ESCAPE OF CARLISLE CHEYENNE, Wyo Nov 27 William Wil-liam M Jeffers. vice president and general manager of the I nlon Pacifli at n Rotary club dinner here today, denounced de-nounced the Wyoming state government govern-ment for the laxity a; ilrt slat- piisi;i which permitted William i Carlisle, 1 the train bandit, lo escape, and for the fact that the state has offered only 2(Mi reward for the recapture of the convict, despite the lad that be has held up a train since his escape. "We spent $10,000 to put this bandit in the penitentiary and your officials now offer only $200 for his recapture," I said Jeffers. "Furthermore, an of fleer j of this stat has made the statement 1 that 90 per cent of the people of Wyoming Wy-oming are in sympathy with the train robber and want to see him get .iwa 1 want to hear definite reports ou , Carlisle. "From the coroner we know that after Carlisle escaped he went into an Oil camp, laid his guns on the table, announced h was Carlisle and intend-' ed to hold up No. 19 and that afler he j had eaten with these Wyoming men' I he was carried in an automobile, driv- j en by brother of an officer in this state, to the railroad tracks near the' scene of the robbery, put down there! and wished good luck. 'He made sood his e.-cap br-caue , he was given the aid and sympathy of j i i rtaln element In Wyoming. We .have called off our forty special agents who have been on the trail of Carlisle, ju'id hi:- capture now rests solely with the government of Wyoming." I 1 . i I |