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Show WILD CHASE AND CLEVER ESCAPE Fellow Wanted by Officers of Coalville is Located, When a Foot Race Takes Place and the Man Outruns His Pursuers Mysterious Myster-ious Oar Coupled to a Train Without Trainmen's Knowledge. The sheriffs office force had a live-lv live-lv race with a man supposed to bear the name of L. F Oberfellow In which the latter, up to the present time, inu.st be declared the winner. Telephonlo word was received from CotiUUie this morning that Obcrfol-low Obcrfol-low hud stolen seven sacks of wo.il and shipped them to Ogden The officers of-ficers were requested io look out for the wool und the man. Inquiry was Immediately made and the officers were nd vised that the wool had already al-ready arrived, but while the officers i were getting ready lo go to the dep.it and take charge of the stolon property, prop-erty, iuiothcr telephone message came that tie man to whom the wool had been consigned wus at the station demanding the wool. This informal Ion greatly accelerated the sprei of the deputy sheriffs Hnd they proceeded dewn" Twenty llfth street at a lively rale. In the meantime mean-time Oberfcllow had loaded the wool Into the transfer wagon of a Mr. niaekmnn and wag on his wav up town Before going far, Oherfellow spied the officers and made a hasty retreat, He Jumped from the delivery wagon snd ran toward the depot yards, tho officers In hot pursuit. Oher-fell.iw Oher-fell.iw mude his cot away and at this time Is likely strolling along the banks of the Weber river somewhere In the vkluity of the Great Salt Lake. The officers say that Oberfel'ow j "ran like a scared wolf" through the railroad yards, dodging between trains of cars leaping sn ross tracks and and missing handcar crews until he reached the jungles, when he wus lost to view. The pursuit was kept up by three deputy sheriffs, and, of course, the hunt for the man has Dot yet been abandoned. It is expected, though, that he will be enptured when he conies from cover to gt something to eat The laei seen of him be was making rapid progress through the brush alone the river. He had crossed cross-ed to the north hide of the stream and will likely make an attempt to ! reach an outgoing train over the Rio Grande or th? Oregon Short. Line. It is said that the wool was transferred trans-ferred in some unaccountable way to an empty car and shipped from Coalville Coal-ville lo Morgon, a distance of 2o milet!, from which point It was ' billed'' to Ogden The supposition Is that tramps aided the man in coupling the car with a Irai-i coining down the car.-yon car.-yon and that the trainmen knevf nothing of it. |