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Show WYOMING SHERIIT KILLHO I.N HUNTING OUTLAWS SHERIFF DECOYED TO Hit DEATH AND BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED. Oraveah.rle Was Allemplla e ReestMar RvaH rrleoeere from Jlaleoaa Ceenlv lall-rnaae aim 1'ur.nli,. Hand Manv Hherlff. Have Met Itleh.r-S rale la Attempting At-tempting lo Arreet the oa'lewe Head Old Wss I'role nf Wild Kill. Hlierlff W. C. Kicker of Natrona county, on of the brat known officials In Wyoming, was shot and fatally wounded In a fight with outlawa at th Woodard ranch, fifty mile from rasper, ras-per, on Thuraday, aud hla body mutilated mutil-ated In a fiendish manner. The outlawa escaped lo thejillla, followed fol-lowed by tha remaining inemtiera of the ionas, and upon receipt of the new of th killing, forty t a men left Caajier Friday to hunt th murderera down. The laleat news from the acen of the murder Imllcatea Hint the aherlff wna decoyed into lite alable at the Woodard ranch, where, after being tortured In tlie moat brutal manner possible, he was killed by Inches. Ona f hla posse who went with lilin Into the barn went off with the outlawa afterward, whether wllllugly or njt It a not known. Th outlawa conalatcd at flint of the two Woodard brother knd two other prisoner, who went with them. It 1 believed, however, that upon arriving at th Woodward ranch they ware joined by aoin deaperadoea from tli llole-lo-lh-WU country. When the ftherlff's poas reached tb ranch they found all the door of th cabin closed and the window curtains drawn. While thay were making their xinlntlon. howevar, a man etepped out of the brn nud oted a though b waa aurprlaed to ar th lutru.ler. Lter development, however, made It patent the posse was expected. I'pou seeing the sheriff's posa tb follow made off In the foothllla behind the alable. Two of the poss followed him aud were soon out of sight In tb hill. Aa aoon aa the fugitive and hla pursuers had dlaappeared, ou other ar.au cine out of tlie slab! and ballad the sheriff and hla one remaining deputy, dep-uty, who bapcned to be the ooe who la dow missing. Huspeollng Dolbing, and believing they were two against one, the sheriff and lh quuudaui deputy dep-uty want to the alable. What happened to the. sheriff thera before dealli released re-leased tnnaflrnra hja lorturean only lie aaranlaeil fruiu the mutilated appearance appear-ance d bla body, for when the two nieinnere of th posse who had chaacd the first bandit were making their way tiarlt lo the pretnlaca llicy were aud-driily aud-driily balled by a rille bullet which a-liiatlrd close to their heada. It noon became apparent to them that they ' would both be killed If they advnuccd upon the outlawa' atronghohl, and Ibey returned to Caaper for rulnforcamenla lteforu fleeing the bandits took Sheriff Klclier'a body out of the barn and leiincd II up against the fence. Ilia lingers were chopped off and his teeth knocked In. Hla face waa almost unrecognizable un-recognizable from the niauy bruUeaou It. Iu addition to tills all tha clothing that had leen left upon him bad been loru to abreds. The position of th body aud th maimer lo which It bad been disfigured created the Impression that the outlaw Intenuad It aa a warning to th other purauera. Whan they aaw the barbaroua treat-ttient-that had been administered loth aherlff, iiiftny member uf the poshe wor lo davoto th rest of their live If need b to th capture of the outlaw. Th outlawa broke Jail at Casper December 3i)th and have aluce been cloaely followed by a posse organized by rSlnrlff Itioker. 1 Kvery slier I IT who haa attempted to arrest member. of the liole-lu-the-Well gang haa met Klcker'a fate, and consequently conse-quently not a few Have lacked tlia courage to do their duly. Sheriff lllcker was oue of the peculiar pioneer charucter of Wyoming, and wss well end most fuvorubly known throughout the slte. Hew the only volunteer who enlisted from hi home county to go lo Cuba aud light for III liberty of the Cuban people. When a mera lad drrsard In big boots, a man a hat and two alugle-bar-reled liurse-platols, he resented an Imaginary Im-aginary liiault from Wild Hill lu Chicago, Chi-cago, aud offered to tight It out with that prince of the plaiua. Instead, tha plaluaiuau patched up a truce with young lllcker and brought him acroaa the vusl wast from old Fort tcrbnrn to San Francisco, where he entered the pit aa broucho-hueler, ami afterward became a mountaineer and riiugerlilcr. Ho roamed all over the west and act-tied act-tied on a ranch near Caaper n number of veaisuk'"- " 1,0"t ei year |