| Show HAZEN Z WAS SHOT 4 ally 4 13 ti 0 T second fight with the bandits who robbed the union pacific train holly hotly pursued the outlaws abandon Abando 1 their horses take to the rocks and pour in a hot fire on their pursuers wounding sheriff hazen reinforcements rushed to the scene from Casper Outlaws thought to be the butch cassidy gang cheyenne wyo june 6 sheriff hazen ot of converse county and posses in pursuit ot of the tho union pacific train robbers had another light with the bandits yesterday evening news ot of which has just been brought here the robbers were surrounded in a gulch when they were forced to abandon their horses which were captured they hid behind rocks and made a desperate fight sheriff hazen was shot through the body and dangerously wounded he ile is being brought into casper reinforcements for the are going out from casper as fast as the men can be mounted and armed the entire country Is aroused and the prospects are good not only for the capture of the train robbers but the entire band of outlaws which have infested the holc hole in therall country price utah june 6 it is the opinion of many persons here that the three men being hunted by deputies for the robbery of the union pacific train at colfax wyoming friday morning are butch cassidy elza lay and old tom mccarty leaders ot of the robbers roost gang of outlaws they were seon seen in the vicinity ot of the holdup hold up a few days before it occurred and were suspected of having I 1 plans lans tor for a raid of some kind sheriff allred of this county who has been instrumental in bringing several of the gang to justice was vas so firm in his belief that the holding up of a rio grande western train was in contemplation temp lation that he notified the railroad authorities of his suspicions the stopping of the union pacific flyer and the robbing of the safe is believed to have been decided on instead tor for the reason that the robbers roost country has been lately filing up with prospectors incident to the copper excitement cit ement making it difficult tor for the gang to operate successfully there |
