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Show OFFICERS HUNT OARING BANDITS Woman Severely Wounded As Posse Fires on Auto By Mistake PUEBLO, Colo.. Nov 20. Police land sheriff's posses from Pueblo, Canon City and surrounding towns are searching the hills and highways for four bandits, one of whom Sunday Sun-day night robbed n Jewelry store In .Canon City and escaped in a stolen I automobile. In their hunt for Ithe men polico opened fire on an automobile- west ef town when the driver refused to halt at their command anel j severely wounded Mrs. M '. McCail 1 of this city, occupant of the car. The machine was riddled with bullets and j buckshot The driver later reported I he thought bandits were trying to hold j htm up. The jewelry store robbery, in which articles valued at $1,000, were taken, Occurred within sight of pedestrians Iwho watched the thief from the sidewalk. side-walk. Tlie robber ran from the build -Ins? and drove away in a stolen auto-j auto-j mobile before the police arrived. Later, the authorities assert, the thief picked up three companions l Pollen declare the highwaymen are ' those who Friday night bound and J qagged a Pueblo man. robbed him of : his valuables and overcoat and threw I him into the collar way of a church. A few hours later four men held up two detectives in the railroad yards I here, bound and gagged them and shut them up in a box car. Then the holdups boarded a freight train to Canon City, where they robbed an engine hostler and beat oiV Sheriff Hulkerson and a deputy, who tried to arrest them, ah reserve pf fleers In Pueblo, additional deputies and tai.-rangers tai.-rangers have joined In tho man-hunt. |