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Show WYOMING OIL COUNTRY IS AROUSED BY 1 I TRIAL IN INFERNAL MM MR f (By SEA Sorrloc) BASIN. Wyo., Feb. 8. Detail pi Jan oil field romance and Its tragli i ondmg are being unfolded bit by bit ! as the most sensational murder trial Wyoming has had In 10 years pro-, pro-, , ecd:; l.eior the cr iminal court h r . The .nine oil is id Iverettbottts is aroused over it. The free, open life of the oil camp. I three picturerquc western characters. ! a love triangle these elements are 'blended in a dr.. ma that's being r -I enacted before r.u audience of jurors I i hat holds a man's life In their I hands. ' voe . haraoaers are Albert Lampltt. on trial for kUl- ing his successful rival Ul lovo and I four others ;y means ot an Infet-nal Infet-nal machine planted In the buqk" house In which the rival ::nJ the others lived, Harry Fpight, the successful rival. GraCQ l.ee, fiancee of Foight. H Is the story a? ii will bo toll ' as the trial, now started, proceeds: Foight and fjampitt both were I workers In the Grass Creek oil field I In one of the wildest parts of the 1 Wyoming Big Horn basin. The social center of the Grass Creek field Is Ohio Camp, a littej settlement where the Ohio Oil company com-pany maintains headquarters for us employes. Bunkhouses, each consisting of six -mill apartments, are the sleeping quarters provided for the unmurrle.'d I male employes of tho oil company, I Foif.ht ocouplcd apartment No. l of one of there bunhhotiser Four I other o'l fleid workers occupied the ' other sections of the burtkhbttse. Unlike the o'her employes, Lrimpitt ( did not have quarters In . b in! - house. ll occupied a srrul! cal I set apart from the rest of the camp. Grace Hee. typical western beauty, I was employed as caretaker of the I bunkhouse. All the unatta hed males, Inciud-I Inciud-I ing Lampltt, admired her, but II stood aside when It became known she favoied Folght's suit ail save ! HampJt!. Lhmpltl persisted in his suit cv n j when it became camp news that I there would be a wedding with Mi s Lee and Foight as principals. I Miss Lee ompl. ilued to Foight o.' ' Lampltt's attentions to her. Folyh! pronl-ed to settle ihe matter with his I rival. Then Early one morning while I'olglip and his four bunkhouse companions slept, th bunkhouse was rent by a terrific explosion. Foight and hi dog. sleeping beside be-side him, were torn to pieces The other four bunkhouse occupants occu-pants dleel in agony. There was n- sign of life around Lampltt's cabin, in friu si I his automobile, loaded with food and supplies as if In preparation for a j journey. Sheriff Hpldrodge knocked at Ixm-I pitfs door. Lampltt i 'Mie to the door rubbing his eyes as if ju,t awakened ! He Said he had not heard the deafening deaf-ening explosion. I InvestigatioTi by Sheriff Holdredge 1 showed the Ohio Oil company's pow- ' der magazine had been looted and a quantity of high explosives stolen. The magazine had been forced open With the. did of a heavy bar. This is the evidence or. which the it Harry Foight (left), one of I lit- I- t in of Wyoming Infemnl machine murder, and All ( I nmpltt, n trial for the niimlvr. . Abovex, Lampltt's home mid bis automobile load) d ap parcnOy fm- (llghl on (he night of the alleged crime. state hopes to send Lampltt to his death: One: The alleged "inding in Lam-pitt's Lam-pitt's automobile of a heavy bar of the kind used In opening powder maga2ines. Two: Automobile iracus which the slat,- B&ys led from the powder magazine maga-zine to Lampilt's shack Three: Lampltt's all. j,e.l s!.ill making trap guns and bombs for killing kill-ing mountain lions and other beasts. Lampltt denies the charge-, ag.ii'.si him. |