Show man wanted in colorado for stealing an automobile run down in roosevelt prisoner malting making wild dash for freedom compello Com officer to shoot him through the IS some little excitement was given roosevelt sunday morning when I 1 ipaty sheriff arthur ah M jacobs upon information and descriptions telephoned here from craig colorado and vernal placed clarence n V gilmore under arrest jacobs located his man at the larsen rooming ili louse and after following him through several rooms found him hiding back of 0 in an open floor while telephoning from the central office to vernal advising thern them ot of the capture ot of gilmore Gil moTe the man made an attempt to get away but was brought back then illen later while city marshal L R fenn was opening the jail door the prisoner made a wild dash for foe liberty believing the officers to be irn unarmed armed gilmore dodged to the east and tan ran back of the jail and then turned and aurl run toward the rear of the cash meat market still heading eastward sheriff jacobs followed his prisoner demanding that he stop and fired two shots into the air in an effon to stop the flight of the fugitive gilmore turned and replied that he wished he would shoot and hill him hir and then continued to run after f recovering recoveries himself from a fall fal finally jacobs took dei deliberate berate aim and shot gilmore through the left leg just below the knee the man continued to tun run jumped the irrigation t ditch on third east street and ran some three hundred yards into in 0 o the alfalfa field until lie he was compelled to stop from loss of blood when he turned and came back toward the officers he was brought to the dr milles allies hospital where his wound was dressed by dr D P whitmore C C collett was deputized and placed on guard until the arrival of the officers from craig colorado xon mon day afternoon when he was daken back to answer to charges of theft it appears that he drove a chevrolet coupe to a pol point nt near range ly colorado where he apparently feil fell asleep and wrecked the car pe ile then made hiis way into vernal where he be disposed of some of the accessories from the car and then caught a ride into roosevelt saturday where he apparently went went into hiding i the colorado officers said gilmore Is wanted by his office for the theft of tour four automobile tir tires es but refused to state whether he is suspected of being implicated in the recent bank holdup at li i imar mar colo which resulted in the murder of three meu men |